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Oct 29th

Pumpkin designs for Halloween

By Jon Davey
Pumpkin Carving Patterns for Halloween

Pumpkin designs

Pumpkin Carving Patterns

It’s Halloween at the end of the month. On Saturday 31st October 2009 many will take to the streets trick or treating.

You need to ward off evil doers so it’s essential that you have a pumpkin in the window. I always find myself dashing to the local supermarket on the eve of Halloween. This year I plan on being a little more prepared!

And rather than the standard jagged mouthed, square eyed monster, I figured that a few pumpkin carving patterns would be of value not just to me and my gang but to you and yours.

Pumpkin Carving Patterns

(added this as the top search on binb this week has been pumpkin carving patterns with 242 searches!!)
Oct 28th

Latest Twitter research says

By Jon Davey
Reviewing the Google stats of our new Business Leads UK website makes for very interesting reading:

• The average visitor spent 6 minutes 30 seconds looking at 5 pages of BLUK

• With Twitter readers being less than 10% as attentive

• Google provided above average readers with twice the attention span of the average visitor

Read the full story over here... then get your butt back to comment!
Oct 28th

HOW TO: view your customers Twitter stream from within your Social CRM

By wecandobiz
We’ve just added the ability for you to track your customers Twitter streams (tweets) from within your WeCanDoCRM Social CRM system.

Read our HOW TO guide here.
Oct 27th

Troops marching back after the State visit of President of India

By Jon Davey
The Royal parade in Windsor 27th Oct 09
 
It was amazing... the Household Cavalry rode past us... the Irish Guards played their hearts out on their way to greet the Indian President... 

Irish Guards marching back to barracks on State visit of President of India 

Household Cavalry riding back to barracks on State visit of President of India 

I shot some great footage and pushed it out LIVE via LIVEstream ... so anyone who looked at the home page of business in Windsor would have seen this today. 

We could hear the guns saluted from Home Park... 

Charlie and I were on the corner of Sheet Street and Park Street... 

I switched to Twitvid so I had it captured for posterity ... it struggled, I have since learned that Twitter were having problems at the time! 

I tried to get footage of the band of the Irish Guards as they marched up to the castle but Twitvid was struggling to take it... 

Then, without much warning, the Household Cavalry returned at a quick trot with carridges and Royals, Presidents and future Kings ... 

I pressed record and held my mini laptop up in the air... 

I watched with my eyes aghast in sheer amazement as 500 horses rounded the corner we were on, we had the best view, and we have it in our hearts and minds ... cos Twitvid let us down when we needed it most ! 

Got some footage of the guys marching back to barracks ... will find time to load that up ... 

It's great living in Windsor ... we have some great days ... 

Check these photos out of the Royal Wedding 

... click the link or Google Charles and Camillas wedding ... whichever you find easiest!! 


Jon Davey 
NEW Business Generator 
Business Leads UK 
01753 852904 
Oct 27th

Shell Springboard - go get yourself £40K

By Jon Davey
Innovation Showcase






Shell Springboard opens for entries

The race is on for Green Entrepreneurs to capture the carbon pound, as Shell Springboard opens for entries £40,000 awards open for small businesses with big ideas for tackling climate change Small businesses with big ideas to tackle climate change are being urged to compete for awards of up to £40,000 each, as the Shell Springboard programme opens for its fifth year.
 
Oct 27th

President of India's State Visit to Windsor

By Jon Davey
Today, 27th October 2009, the Indian President is making a state visit to Windsor

"All the Queen's horses and all the Queen's men" will be parading through the town... not one to be missed ... we hope to bring you live footage but that depends on the number of mobiles eating Vodafone's bandwidth!!

- We’ll be walking into town around 10:00am
- Parades will start around 10:30 / 11:00am
- The President of India gets into town around 12:00pm

Let’s see what we get ... enjoy ...

Go check out www.businessinwindsor.co.uk or click the TV page above... if you can't see the TV page then you are not logged in.
Oct 26th

BLUK Social Media News Distribution Service

By Jon Davey
Today we pushed out a story to illustrate our Social Media News Distribution service.
Read the story we posted here, or watch the video down the right!
Oct 26th

SHEplc Online Magazine launced today at 4pm

By Jon Davey
At 4pm today Mary launched her new SHEplc Business Buzz Magazine aimed at women in business. Launched at 4pm this afternoon after discussions with business astrologer Christine Chalklin.
Go take a look and tell us what you think of page 12-13 !!
Oct 26th

On this day in history 26th October

By Jon Davey
Born on this Day 1879 Leon Trotsky, 1914 Jackie Coogan, 1925 Paul Daneman, 1916 Francois Mitterrand, 1942 Bob Hoskins, 1947 Hilary Clinton, 1947 Jaclyn Smith, 1971 Audley Harrison, 1973 Austin Healey

http://www.onthisdayinhistory.co.uk/news198.html

If it's your birthday today, tell us and we'll make you famous!! 
Oct 26th

Shout out to sporty diabetics

By W'hamCopywriter
Hi all,

Are you a type 1 diabetic, or do you know anyone who is?

With my journalist hat on, I write regularly for a diabetes health/lifestyle magazine. I'm always looking for sporty Type 1 diabetics to interview for the lifestyle pages.

Any sport, any level, any age: the only must-haves are Type 1 diabetes and an active interest in a particular sport.

Please get in touch if this describes you or someone you know.

Thanks! Nicola
www.nicolajoyce.co.uk