The Business Hub Show Podcast 20 June 2010

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Welcome to The Business Hub Radio Show podcast which was broadcast on Star Radio 107 at 9:00 on Sunday 20th June 2010

Sponsored by  EACS.com

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Introduction – Coming up in this weeks  show

• Bob Garbett – O4RB
• Rory Gear – Rubicon Writing Services
• Craig Bennett – University of Cambridge Sustainable Leadership
• John Morter - Rage Against the Machine FaceBook campaign
• Larry Lloyd of Larry’s Support Desk
• Rory Gear – Blogging challenge results

Interview with Bob Garbett founder of O4RB

• Background to O4RB
• Opportunities For Regional Businesses
• Business networking not working
• By its members – for its members
• How O4RB are helping regional businesses
• Power of O4RB consortiums
• How the consortiums work
• How consortiums avoid “boom and bust”
• 2010 is the year of collaboration
• Free O4RB event
  • 25th June
  • Woodgreen animal shelter
  • Find out more HERE>>>
• Follow Bob Garbett on Twitter: @bobgarbett

Interview with Rory Gear of Rubicon Writing Services

• Day in the life of a professional writer
• Where the business is coming from
• Increase of Social Media writing engagements
• Currently ghost-writing 15 blogs
• Writing “in character”
• The blog “ghost-writing” process
• Writing engaging content
• Defining compelling titles
• Getting the basics right
• Rory’s 3 Pearls of Wisdom
• Rory’s challenge
• Follow Rory:
  • Website HERE>>>
  • SuperBlog HERE>>>
  • Twitter: @rorygear
  • www.TipTours.co.uk

Coming up next on The Business Hub

Appeal by Stephen Fry for Marie Curie Cancer Care

• Make your donations HERE>>
• Blooming Great Tea Party Appeal
• Get your registration pack HERE>>>
• Jane Asher recipes when you register
• Register for the tea party HERE>>>
  • or call Victoria  on 07798 638 097
• Get the Blooming Great Tea Party iPhone App HERE>>>

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The Business Hub iPhone and Android App

• Get The Business Hub iPhone App HERE>>>
• Get The Business Hub Android App HERE>>>
• Scan the appropriate QR code to install to your phone
  • What is a QR Code?
• Use Android’s Barcode Scanner HERE>>>
• Our App is produced by Genwi
• App created at http://iSites.us

Get involved with The Business Hub website and Community

• Sign up and join The Business Hub Community HERE>>> – It’s FREE!
• It’s easy, join in the conversations and you could be the star of our next show

Advertise on The Business Hub - Promo HERE>>

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Interview with Craig Bennett – Deputy Director of the University of Cambridge Program for Sustainable Leadership

• What is Sustainability Leadership
• What’s the approach to sustainability
• World leading sustainability seminars
• Growth of interest in this subject
• Development of bespoke seminars
• Delivery of customised programmes
• Science of climate change
• Policy response and development
• Bio diversity loss
• Breakdown of eco-system services
• Impact of deforestation

• Knock-on climate risks for corporates
• Involvement of micro-businesses and SME’s
• SME’s need to address the issues to meet compliance
• A need to meet procurement standards
• BP oil spill
• Damage to profits
• Breakdown of figures
• How BP changed it’s priorities
• The impact of this
  • Financial damage – band damage
  • The cost savings now being questioned
• Find out more about CPI at: http://www.cpi.cam.ac.uk/

The Social Media Mentor

Interview with John Morter - Rage Against the Machine FaceBook campaign

- Sponsored by Poken.com

• Feeling like celebrities
• Feedback on the free concert
• Beating Simon Cowell
• Some of the job offers coming in
• Simon Cowell called to congratulate
• Many copy-cat campaigns now on FaceBook
• Unique in history – not to be repeated
• How were the band when they met
• over 500,000 people involved in the campaign
• Follow Mark and Ian on Twitter here:
  • Follow Ian on Twitter: @IanMcKendrick
  • Follow Mark on Twitter: @BusinessHubMark

The Business Hub iPhone and Android App

• Get The Business Hub iPhone App HERE>>>
• Get The Business Hub Android App HERE>>>
• Scan the appropriate QR code to install to your phone
  • What is a QR Code?
• Use Android’s Barcode Scanner HERE>>>
• Our App is produced by Genwi
• App created at http://iSites.us

Get involved with The Business Hub website and Community

• Sign up and join The Business Hub Community HERE>>> – It’s FREE!
• It’s easy, join in the conversations and you could be the star of our next show

Advertise on The Business Hub - Promo HERE>>

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Larry to the rescue with Larry Lloyd of Larry’s Support Desk - Arrow Limited

• Keeping sensitive information safe
• Protecting  data loss from theft – encryption
• Protecting against data loss – backups
• Protecting intellectual property
• Some USB sticks already security enabled
• Biometric enabled USB sticks
• Who Larry thinks is going to win the World Cup
• A “Larry’s support desk joke”
• Link to Larry’s IT Tips HERE>>>
• Ask Larry your support questions HERE>>>
• Larry will tell you the answers on a future show
• You can connect with Larry here:
  • Twitter: @larrylloyd
  • SuperBlog: HERE>>>
  • Website: www.arrowltd.co.uk

Result of Rory’s Writing Challenge

• Get your vuvuzela’s .com story
• Engaging copy
• Compelling title
• Background to how Rory:
  • created the article
  • defined a compelling title
• Our conclusions - Well done Rory!
• You can read the full article HERE>>>

• Follow Rory:
  • Website HERE>>>
  • SuperBlog HERE>>>
  • Twitter: @rorygear
  • www.TipTours.co.uk

Show review, and thanks to all of our contributors

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