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		<title>Life after LiveWIRE (or 5 months into my new role at Sage One)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 20:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Lancaster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of you may have noticed that I left Shell LiveWIRE at the end of November 2012 (after 4yrs) to start working in the Sage One team at Sage (UK) Limited (a FTSE-100 software company based in my hometown of Newcastle). This is actually my 2nd time working for Sage &#8211; my first being over 12yrs ago &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plandigitaluk.com&#038;blog=9148045&#038;post=1361&#038;subd=plandigital&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sage does the Harlem Shake</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 15:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Lancaster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FTSE-100 business software provider Sage (UK) Limited, has released their own version of the &#8216;Harlem Shake&#8217; to help raise awareness of the new Real Time Information (RTI) legislation for PAYE which is coming into force on 6th April 2013. The video features almost 100 Sage employees taking over the Sage HQ atrium in fancy dress costumes which include Chewbacca, &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plandigitaluk.com&#038;blog=9148045&#038;post=1357&#038;subd=plandigital&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tech start-up or entrepreneur? Try Sunderland Software City</title>
		<link>http://plandigitaluk.com/2013/01/03/support-from-sunderland-software-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 23:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Lancaster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re a tech start-up or software company based in the North East of England (or willing to relocate), a developer or just someone with an idea for a new project or business you really should speak to the guys at Sunderland Software City. Despite the name, the remit of the organisation is not just to support, develop and &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plandigitaluk.com&#038;blog=9148045&#038;post=1347&#038;subd=plandigital&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Appy Talk &#8211; apps vs. mobile websites (7th February 2013)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 22:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Lancaster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a board member for the CIM TMIG (Technology Market Interest Group), I&#8217;m helping to organise an event at Newcastle University Business School on Thursday 7th February called Appy Talk &#8211; apps vs. mobile websites. The aim of this event is to bring technical and non-technical marketers and business people together so they can learn &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plandigitaluk.com&#038;blog=9148045&#038;post=1335&#038;subd=plandigital&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2012 in review</title>
		<link>http://plandigitaluk.com/2012/12/31/2012-in-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2012 07:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Lancaster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 12,000 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 20 years to get &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plandigitaluk.com&#038;blog=9148045&#038;post=1343&#038;subd=plandigital&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Community Work</title>
		<link>http://plandigitaluk.com/2012/10/24/community-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 23:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Lancaster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently stumbled across a great animated video featuring audio from Brad Feld (Managing Director @ Foundry Group) talking about what makes a great startup community, based on his experience as a Venture Capitalist in Boulder, Colorado. In it, he compares the old, industrial era way of working under a hierarchy to the modern, information &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plandigitaluk.com&#038;blog=9148045&#038;post=1312&#038;subd=plandigital&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why and how to use Google+ effectively</title>
		<link>http://plandigitaluk.com/2012/10/24/why-and-how-to-use-google-effectively/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 22:25:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Lancaster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google+ is really cool, but most people still don&#8217;t know why or how they should use it. In fact, I can probably count on one hand the number of people I know who use it regularly. I&#8217;m on there now myself but it wasn&#8217;t until I watched this excellent video of my Twitter buddy and No &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plandigitaluk.com&#038;blog=9148045&#038;post=1308&#038;subd=plandigital&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New GOV.UK website goes live (replacing Business Link)</title>
		<link>http://plandigitaluk.com/2012/10/17/new-gov-uk-website-goes-live-replacing-business-link/</link>
		<comments>http://plandigitaluk.com/2012/10/17/new-gov-uk-website-goes-live-replacing-business-link/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 11:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Lancaster</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tech Start-Ups]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, the new www.gov.uk website (which replaces the Business Link one) went live today. They&#8217;ve gone for a much more minimal, stripped down look to help people find their way around the site better, but as a result lots of useful info has been removed. At this stage it&#8217;s not clear if this will ever be &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plandigitaluk.com&#038;blog=9148045&#038;post=1298&#038;subd=plandigital&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Co-working comes to Newcastle</title>
		<link>http://plandigitaluk.com/2012/10/10/co-working-comes-to-newcastle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 10:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Lancaster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been championing the idea of co-working in Newcastle since April 2011 when a tour of the &#8216;Silicon Roundabout&#8217; area of London reinforced my belief that &#8216;clustering&#8217; (close georgraphical proximity to other businesses and entrepreneurs) was an important ingredient in the success of a startup (see &#8216;Start-Ups: Know Your Place&#8217;). This trip, which included visits to TechHub, &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plandigitaluk.com&#038;blog=9148045&#038;post=1288&#038;subd=plandigital&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook Focus</title>
		<link>http://plandigitaluk.com/2012/09/12/facebook-focus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 06:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Lancaster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading Jeremy Wilson&#8217;s article on The Kernel titled &#8216;Help The Aged&#8216;, I came up with an idea for a new app called &#8216;Facebook Focus&#8217;. As Jeremy&#8217;s article explains, many people use Facebook simply to stay in touch with friends and family who may be on holiday, away from home with work/college/university or living in another &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plandigitaluk.com&#038;blog=9148045&#038;post=1214&#038;subd=plandigital&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 01:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Lancaster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not often that someone produces a TV advert that stops me in my tracks, makes me feel genuinely excited and brings a tear to my eye but Samsung have done it with their &#8216;Sport doesn&#8217;t care who you are&#8216; spot for the Paralympics 2012. They&#8217;ve somehow managed to distill all the emotion and passion &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plandigitaluk.com&#038;blog=9148045&#038;post=1208&#038;subd=plandigital&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More Klout To Shout About?</title>
		<link>http://plandigitaluk.com/2012/09/12/more-klout-to-shout-about/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 00:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Lancaster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Klout recently released a major update to the way it measures people&#8217;s online / social influence, including a neat new feature called &#8216;Klout Moments&#8217; which shows a vertical timeline of your most influential social media activity over the past 90 days. You can also filter this down further to show just Twitter Moments (Retweets and Replies), &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plandigitaluk.com&#038;blog=9148045&#038;post=1195&#038;subd=plandigital&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to Sunderland, Software City</title>
		<link>http://plandigitaluk.com/2012/09/06/welcome-to-sunderland-software-city/</link>
		<comments>http://plandigitaluk.com/2012/09/06/welcome-to-sunderland-software-city/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 13:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Lancaster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunderland Software City, the organisation that exists to generate and promote a sustainable, world class software industry in the North East of England, is moving to a brand new, state-of-the-art building next to Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens called &#8216;Software City&#8217;. Just a few minutes walk from Sunderland Metro station and the main shopping streets, Software City is a stunning new building &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plandigitaluk.com&#038;blog=9148045&#038;post=1154&#038;subd=plandigital&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Give empty high street retail units to new businesses for free!</title>
		<link>http://plandigitaluk.com/2012/09/05/empty-high-street-units/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2012 13:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Lancaster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Retail]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[New research from The Local Data Company shows that the number of empty shops on Britain&#8217;s high street are continuing to rise (with Nottingham being the worst performing city centre with more than 30% of its sites empty). Apparently the vacancy problems were caused by consumer spending falling back to 2002 levels and by retailers expanding into &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plandigitaluk.com&#038;blog=9148045&#038;post=1137&#038;subd=plandigital&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A-Level Results &#8211; What next for young people in Britain?</title>
		<link>http://plandigitaluk.com/2012/09/05/a-level-results-what-next-for-young-people-in-britain/</link>
		<comments>http://plandigitaluk.com/2012/09/05/a-level-results-what-next-for-young-people-in-britain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2012 13:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Lancaster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Confidence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As A-Level students across Britain contemplate their future, I wonder whether they are being given the best advice by parents, teachers and the media about what to do next? With a current shortage of university places and jobs for graduates, high dropout rates from students that probably weren’t cut out for academia in the first &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plandigitaluk.com&#038;blog=9148045&#038;post=1132&#038;subd=plandigital&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why entrepreneurs will get us out of the recession</title>
		<link>http://plandigitaluk.com/2012/09/05/why-entrepreneurs-will-get-us-out-of-the-recession/</link>
		<comments>http://plandigitaluk.com/2012/09/05/why-entrepreneurs-will-get-us-out-of-the-recession/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:43:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Lancaster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Way back on 27th November 2009, I attended the PNE Group annual lecture with Charles Bean, Deputy Governor of The Bank of England titled &#8216;Is the great recession over?&#8217; and here&#8217;s a summary of what I write about it at the time. Firstly, he started by giving a bit of background about the causes of the recession. Much &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plandigitaluk.com&#038;blog=9148045&#038;post=1127&#038;subd=plandigital&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unholy Island</title>
		<link>http://plandigitaluk.com/2012/08/30/unholy-island/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 16:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Lancaster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ideas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Looking through my old files and documents I stumbled across a brief synopsis for a British horror film I wrote way back on 18th May 2007 called &#8216;Unholy Island&#8217;. Admittedly it&#8217;s little more than a very basic idea but the few people I&#8217;ve spoken to in the film industry seem to quite like it and have encouraged me &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plandigitaluk.com&#038;blog=9148045&#038;post=1098&#038;subd=plandigital&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Co-working event @ PostOffice (Friday 7th Sept 2012)</title>
		<link>http://plandigitaluk.com/2012/08/30/co-working-event-postoffice-friday-7th-sept-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://plandigitaluk.com/2012/08/30/co-working-event-postoffice-friday-7th-sept-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Lancaster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PostOffice, the Newcastle venue for weekly networking events for North East-based developers, designers and tech start-ups, is hosting its 2nd co-working event on Friday 7th September. Whether you&#8217;re a freelancer, homeworker, new start-up or just someone who fancies a change of scenery from the office &#8211; this event gives you the chance to co-work and network with fellow entrepreneurs, developers, &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plandigitaluk.com&#038;blog=9148045&#038;post=1093&#038;subd=plandigital&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Olympics 2012 &#8211; A missed opportunity to promote small business in the UK?</title>
		<link>http://plandigitaluk.com/2012/07/23/olympics-2012-a-missed-opportunity-to-promote-small-business-in-the-uk/</link>
		<comments>http://plandigitaluk.com/2012/07/23/olympics-2012-a-missed-opportunity-to-promote-small-business-in-the-uk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2012 11:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Lancaster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Branding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London 2012 Olympics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With the London 2012 Olympics just around the corner, I&#8217;m wondering (in a personal capacity) if they&#8217;re a huge, missed opportunity to promote small business here in the UK?There&#8217;s no doubt that the games will be a fantastic sporting event, and despite various hitches and complaints by the media and politicians in the run up, &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plandigitaluk.com&#038;blog=9148045&#038;post=1071&#038;subd=plandigital&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PostOffice venue launches weekly co-working days in Newcastle</title>
		<link>http://plandigitaluk.com/2012/07/12/postoffice-venue-launches-weekly-co-working-days-in-newcastle/</link>
		<comments>http://plandigitaluk.com/2012/07/12/postoffice-venue-launches-weekly-co-working-days-in-newcastle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Lancaster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Co-working]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After talking about bringing co-working days to Newcastle since April 2011, I&#8217;m pleased to announce that we are finally going to start doing them at our PostOffice venue in Newcastle every Friday, starting with a FREE launch event on 3rd August (9am-5pm). The PostOffice also has a new Facebook Page at www.facebook.com/PostOfficeNE1 to go with the pre-existing Twitter &#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plandigitaluk.com&#038;blog=9148045&#038;post=1059&#038;subd=plandigital&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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