As UK members will have probably heard in the news, the Chancellor in his Pre-Budget Report on 24 November 2008 announced that the standard rate of VAT is reduced to 15% from 1 December 2008. In line with this Doxmart has implemented the new rate from 1st December 2008 where it applies to purchases.
Update your Doxmart profile with your photo or an image of your choice. You can now personalise your profile with an image of your choice including your business logo. Just go to your My Doxmart page and click on ‘Edit My Profile’.
You can now invite your contacts from Yahoo! Mail and Google Mail (GMail). Other address applications (including Facebook) will be added this month.
Also, you can post your documents on numerous social networking sites in just one click and obtain automatically generated document links that allow you to link easily to your documents to promote them.
Simply visit My Doxmart and click the Promote my documents page to get started.
I was thinking about changing my mobile phone this week – until I found out that I have another six months to go on the contract! So I started a ‘what did we do before mobiles?’ conversation. Involved in the conversation were two early twenty year olds who find my stories about working for a leading London PR firm BEFORE mobiles and with Apricot computers totally hilarious. As hilarious as I find it each time I watch a rerun of Lethal Weapon 1 (1987) and cool Mel Gibson (or was it Danny Glover?) gets out a small suitcase from his police car and declares he has a mobile phone.
My mobile is my big interface with convergent technology. It’s a phone, address book, camera and voice recorder for me. I could actually take time and use it as a camcorder more.
‘Convergent media’ is the new buzzword. It is gaining status as being beyond blogging and taking social media communities to a new level.
Basically, as we know, people now want to share more than just words or photos. They want a personal site that they can add multimedia to easily. They want to keep it all in one place and have a site that is technologically excellent so that it works well and is easy to use.
Realising this, I was able to be less hilarious to my young mockers at the weekend. ‘Hey I’m part of Doxmart and we have created a convergent media site that is easy to use and built to accept media of any type’. And I then went on to nearly win a furious game of ‘Beat the Buzzer’.
Honour restored. Thank you Doxmart development team!
Fresh from the recent joy in the Doxmart camp that we now have personal and business profile pages where our members can create their own profiles and network with each other we are reminded, last week, of the downside of the new ‘transparent’ society.A story on Yahoo news says that Australian call centre employee, Kyle Doyle, 21, is currently facing an internal investigation after he called in sick for work then updated his Facebook status bar to read: ‘Kyle Doyle is not going to work … I’m still trashed. SICKIE WOO!’.
The article goes on the say: “Unfortunately for Doyle his boss saw the incriminating status report.
“He emailed Doyle and requested a doctor’s note to prove that a sick day was required, without mentioning the entry but saying that his line manager was under the impression that the day off was not for medical reasons.” My leave was due to medical reasons, so you cannot deny leave based on a line manager’s discretion, with no proof, please process leave as requested,” Doyle replied.
“The manager then revealed that he had seen the message and said the day off would not be granted. Doyle now faces an investigation by his employer AAPT, Australia’s third largest telecoms operator.”
This just goes to prove how important and transparent social networking is. Head-hunters use sites to check the profiles of applicants and clearly, as in hapless Doyle’s case, managers are savvy to the uses of such sites too.
What we’ve found interesting is that people are now ‘multi social siting’ and have different aspects of themselves displayed on different sites. Clearly more business oriented sites will have business networks and an emphasis on skills and experience.
So what will the Doxmart community look like? Well, it is unfolding and already we can see that people are balancing some personal info with business profiles. Most importantly they are revealing what solutions they can offer or what solutions they need help with. Maybe Doyle will find some of the employee related solutions relating to getting your CV in shape, finding a great job and keeping it helpful!
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