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Re: First cmypitch event a great success

facebook-604190280 — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:13:40 -0000

We will do our best

Appreciate if folks would use crunchbase to keep such stuff updated - makes it easier to track/verify

Re: First cmypitch event a great success

PaulWalsh — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:10:23 -0000

Great stuff! Fergus, will you please keep track of the companies that getting funding so we can see how many deals are closed each quarter?

Re: Getting Out From Behind Your Desk

PaulWalsh — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:42:28 -0000

I agree. I met with my early-stage investor, Paul Birch yesterday to walk him through our latest designs for Wubud. It's important that investors take a proactive approach to staying on top of things, as it's easy for entrepreneurs to forget to provide regular updates - which provide confidence in your ability to deliver - especially when things slide.

Re: Guardian launches Open Platform tool to make online content available free

PaulWalsh — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:39:10 -0000

Hi Paul, thanks for asking. Why not pop me an email paulatsegala.com and I'll send it to you :)

Re: OpenSoho on St Patricks Day

PaulWalsh — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:11:01 -0000

That's cool where it is Simon :)

Re: Fancy a business retreat in France?

Ben Colclough — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:08:15 -0000

just launched tourdust.com in beta - spoke to you v briefly at end of ill fated innovate!Europe meetup.

Re: Fancy a business retreat in France?

PaulWalsh — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:34:01 -0000

I've added more detail to the post Mat. You can apply by sending me an email with as much information about yourself as possible - it's that simple. paulatsegala.com

Re: Fancy a business retreat in France?

PaulWalsh — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:21:13 -0000

I'm not entirely sure how we're going to do it - possibly by invitation. Naturally we'll look at the comments here also - what's your background/current interests?

Re: Fancy a business retreat in France?

PaulWalsh — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:20:53 -0000

You certainly are Jackie :)

Yeah you'd have to cover the cost of travel to London - or just make your way there directly and ensure you land at around the same time to avail of the pickup transport.

Re: Fancy a business retreat in France?

PaulWalsh — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:16:37 -0000

3 nights and flying from Luton (London) airport.

Re: How to delete your Ecademy account

PaulWalsh — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:31:07 -0000

And how many aren't life bloody coaches?

Re: More tickets released for OpenSoho4

PaulWalsh — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:48:37 -0000

Thanks Ken. Nice to see you signed up too :)

Re: More tickets released for OpenSoho4

PaulWalsh — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:55:55 -0000

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Re: What do you think of the new spinvox.com?

Emilicon — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:30:41 -0000

Hey Paul - I don't know those involved in the site design, people change roles and use other skills & it's not a tiny company - I'm giving my feedback about the site design to anyone I can including to your blog as I think you've made a good point. If you get a chance to talk to their management you'll find out who's making their decisions and know far more than I do...

Re: What do you think of the new spinvox.com?

PaulWalsh — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:27:28 -0000

"experts in human factors & usability" either they don't, or they should be fired - either because they don't know what they're doing or because management don't care for what they have to say.

There's no way in the world, that any form of performance, user testing or accessibility compliance testing was performed on this site.

Re: What do you think of the new spinvox.com?

PaulWalsh — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:42:38 -0000

It's that bad I'm wondering if it's done for some kind of publicity stunt - i.e. to attract comments to attract new visitors. All of the technical points mentioned already, are well documented and understood by half-brained designers. Who designed it?

Re: How to delete your Ecademy account

Vanessa Warwick — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:05:21 -0000

Thanks for your reply Paul.

Like I said, I get enormous value out of it and I am really not too interested in what other people think. I choose to judge things by the actual results I achieve in my business, not hearsay. There are negative threads going around on every subject under the sun .... one of the good things about ecademy is that that it is policed by the community, much like Ebay is. That leads to transparency. People are intelligent enough to make up their own minds about things and don't have to rely on comments like "all the people I know ... " , they can find out for themselves. If ecademy works for you .. great. If it doesn't work for you ... great. However, it does take consistency and effort to get the most out of it, so if you are a seeker of instant gratification you will be disappointed.

Although I never claimed to be in my original post, I am plugged into the tech industry to a degree, although probably not to the level you are. I am very interested in Web 2.0 and I believe in "contribution currency" and ecademy is a big part of implementing that philosophy. However, I've got better things to do than rubbernecking on negative threads. I am not willing to pay for rubbernecking with my time and attention. I'd rather put the energy into my property business. Thanks to using Web 2.0 strategies including blogs, social and business networking, forum posting, attending networking events, etc. our marketing budget is zero. I am a big fan of Seth Godin.

Anyway Paul. Let's agree to disagree. I find ecademy an incredible tool and if people make a few quid out of is, then good for them. As long as people get value from it, they will be willing to pay for it although I myself only joined the free part. From what I know, the Power's privately funded ecademy themselves. I think that took tremendous courage and I respect them for that.

I have joined you on Twitter and will look forward to reading more of your blogs as you seem to have some varied and interesting business ventures..

Re: How to delete your Ecademy account

PaulWalsh — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:12:50 -0000

You can find out by clicking on the link in the post - try to login. I wouldn't make any assumptions as your contacts could still be getting invites from you - even after a few years - like mine!

Re: How to delete your Ecademy account

PaulWalsh — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:41:22 -0000

Now that I've seen it's published I can confirm that it is true - I have a copy of the actual email thread. I decided against publishing it as it would have been irresponsible of me.

Re: How to delete your Ecademy account

PaulWalsh — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:39:18 -0000

Manoj - get off the political fence with the general obvious statements. There's a hospital for some people but it doesn't mean it's a good place for anyone.

Re: How to delete your Ecademy account

PaulWalsh — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:37:26 -0000

Vanessa I'm delighted to hear you got something out of Ecademy - really, I am. I'm sure others have benefited from it too. In the long run however, when it comes to any of the people I know (journalists, correspondents, entrepreneurs, PR people, marketers etc.) not one of them has anything positive to say about Ecademy. The Blackstar stuff is very close to pyramid marketing according to some. Also, there are lots of other negative threads going around. If you're plugged into the tech industry you'd know all of this.

Re: How to delete your Ecademy account

PaulWalsh — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 11:37:25 -0000

@ANGELSDEN with the exception of the odd comment on here, I have yet to hear positive things about Ecademy - not one single person I know has a good word to say - and that's *a lot* of people. OK, so perhaps you're an exception to the rule ;)

I must declare that I don't know Thomas or Penny. I can say however, that I kinda know (of) Julian - CTO. Here's the last (Twitter) conversation I had with him a while back:

Me: "I think Twitter is turning into a conversational tool" (we're going back a while!)
Julian in response to my comment: "I think Twitter turning into a conversational tool is stupid"
Me: "Julian, you're now conversing with me"
Julian: :::Radio silence:::

Dear 'bad things', bring it on baby.

Re: How to delete your Ecademy account

PaulWalsh — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 11:10:46 -0000

Re: How to delete your Ecademy account

PaulWalsh — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 04:52:15 -0000

@laurence 1) having that feature is SPAM if it means that your contacts continue to receive invites **years** after they were sent! 2) it was switched off.

Re: How to delete your Ecademy account

PaulWalsh — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:56:27 -0000

@haikuriousgeorg it is good for some - just like self-harm is good for some. It's full of people who don't know any better and people who don't know how to delete there account - oh, and those like me, who registered an account years ago.

Without giving names, very qualified and respected people agree that the Blackstar thing is a little short of pyramid marketing.