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Re: Simple guide to calling a London number from US, Australia, Europe, anywhere

Andrew Grill — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 13:10:59 -0000

The London phone directory can be found at https://www.thephonebook.bt... but I don’t think they list mobile numbers. Perhaps your friend gave you the wrong number.

Re: Simple guide to calling a London number from US, Australia, Europe, anywhere

Andrew Grill — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 12:53:51 -0000

Bhaskar, from India, dial 00 44 7881 234 567 or from a mobile +44 7881 234 567

Re: Simple guide to calling a London number from US, Australia, Europe, anywhere

Andrew Grill — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 12:52:13 -0000

I’d assume they will only accept a US mobile (cellphone) number

Re: So I bought some Bitcoin – and you should too

Andrew Grill — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 13:37:24 -0000

Marshall, thank you for saying so and for sharing the article on your networks as well. As I've always said, how can you understand the "language:" of these new technologies and platforms without actually trying them. I have seen many bitcoin articles merley spruiking it - so the author profits. Here I have such a low amount invested it does not matter if I don't recover my initial investment, but I will truly learn from the experiment.

Re: The power of one tweet

Andrew Grill — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 10:21:19 -0000

I'm not so sure. I still have many social serendipity moments around the world. I agree re customer service though. The same "one tweet" trip I also got an upgrade at the Mark Hopkins Hotel - see http://dgital.link/mark-hop...

Re: Eminence in a digital world

Andrew Grill — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 06:12:29 -0000

Hugh could not agree more!

Re: You’re only a journalist if Twitter and Facebook say so.

Andrew Grill — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 04:46:50 -0000

How strange. I'm definitely not a journalist, and an infrequent blogger at that - but I got the blue tick. Perhaps try again and someone else will review?

Re: The value of internal social networks will greatly outweigh external social networks into 2017

Andrew Grill — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 07:34:26 -0000

Ben, I agree. Wait for my follow up post on the #connectedcompany

Re: A look at how Australian Bank ANZ is creating their own quality content via @ANZ_BlueNotes

Andrew Grill — Mon, 11 Jan 2016 06:51:17 -0000

Stuart, thanks for your kind words. It's also about getting exclusive access to great content and great talent such as Paul Edwards here.

Re: My campaign to stop the rise of “The Householder” direct mail spam

Andrew Grill — Sat, 22 Aug 2015 04:28:23 -0000

Irony that you disguised his email address here so as not to be harvested by spammers!

Re: The ROI of social media – are we looking in the wrong place?

Andrew Grill — Sat, 18 Jul 2015 05:52:25 -0000

Marshall, sad that this was 3 years ago and we're not seeing much movement in the market, but wasn't I such a forward thinker! This is actually the reason I left the world of "social media" and joined IBM to champion the world and the promise of social business where we move beyond likes, fans and fake followers and look at the real busines benefits and impacts of social in the enterperise.

Re: Social Trends: Will we start to see the rise (and fall) of the social business guru?

Andrew Grill — Sun, 05 Jul 2015 18:32:28 -0000

Gary, as I say in all my recent presentations (see an example at http://lc.tl/fodm) I don't use the word "social" anymore - yes it is confusing, and you need to use business language.

Re: Hello BlackBerry Passport! Yes.. I’ve got one and I’m using it!

Andrew Grill — Wed, 10 Jun 2015 03:21:05 -0000

Ewan, glad I convinced you to make the switch! At times I am ridiculed by my fellow IBMers for not having an iPhone as I am the "social guy". When I point to the keyboard, large screen, battery life and excellent socoal integration of twitter, facebook, linkedin,whatsapp,foursquare into the HUB in essentially one app rather than several, they see my point. Oh, and it has a keyboard!

Re: Love @IBM CEO Ginni Rometty @WSJ interview response “rather be essential than cool” lc.tl/essential

Andrew Grill — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 12:51:07 -0000

The video can be found at http://lc.tl/essential. This card I carry in my wallet and show clients that the IBM Purpose is simply "Be Essential". It is a very powerful message and few companies can boil down their reason for being to something as clear and simple as this.

Re: Existing .co.uk domain owners are sitting on a .uk goldmine

Andrew Grill — Tue, 30 Dec 2014 11:48:07 -0000

I think you're right about the "brandability" - dotcodotuk has always been a mouthful and the UK is one of a handful of countries that enforce these 2nd level domains. dot UK is pretty obvious and easier to say and brand. I wonder who will be the first big brand to do "dot UK"?

Re: Are Social Media Jobs About to Disappear

Andrew Grill — Mon, 29 Dec 2014 10:26:16 -0000

And it means we're all still in a job!

Re: Are Social Media Jobs About to Disappear

Andrew Grill — Mon, 29 Dec 2014 10:11:36 -0000

Mike - that was the point of my December 2013 post - I tell social media teams I can make them heroes and secure their jobs by being the ones that take social out of the marketing/PR team and get it into every part of the organisation. Glad you agree,

Re: How to create your own URL shortener: Hosted or subscription, here’s what you need to know

Andrew Grill — Mon, 29 Dec 2014 06:24:28 -0000

Thanks - have requested to join 301 works.

All my links are backed up as well as the database via http://lc.tl/codeguard so I could move host easily. I also control my DNS via DNSMadeEasy so have some redundancy away from my webhost also

Re: Are Social Media Jobs About to Disappear

Andrew Grill — Mon, 29 Dec 2014 06:07:45 -0000

Jay, totally agree. I wrote about this 12 months ago - see http://social.bz/team and lately have asked the question in another post "are our social media teams just a social switchboard?" - see http://social.bz/switchboard

I am fortunate to play with the c-suite on a near-daily basis with my work at IBM and they all are questioning the business value of having single "social teams". I am advising them to federate social throughout their whole organisation and they are listening...

Re: Digital Disruption: Hanging up on Voicemail

Andrew Grill — Wed, 24 Dec 2014 16:44:46 -0000

well I've never chosen to use voicemail - ever!

Re: Good Morning Istanbul!

Andrew Grill — Tue, 30 Sep 2014 06:08:36 -0000

gorgeous sunrise in Turkey

Re: Final preparations for South Australia

Andrew Grill — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 09:35:10 -0000

Hugh - great blog and I hope you are enjoying my home town!

Re: If you travel regularly or connect to public WiFi then you need a VPN – here’s why

Andrew Grill — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 04:46:53 -0000

Yes I have, one of the many I auditioned before settling on VyprVPN.

Re: Why I’m staking my career on the growth of social business

Andrew Grill — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 17:27:28 -0000

Yes! It's all about using the right language.

Re: How to create your own URL shortener: Hosted or subscription, here’s what you need to know

Andrew Grill — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 15:36:00 -0000

I've been using YOURLS for nearly 3 years now on lc.tl (the shortest domain I could buy that also has my blog's brand - London Calling in it).

I've used it exclusively for my own short links and had more than 1.25 million clicks on it. As I point out in the post at http://lc.tl/url if you use a 3rd party shortenrer you run the risk of it being shut down, and also you have little control over the "hash" - ie what comes after the /

With my own hosted shortener, I can make it anything I want - eg this article is available via http://lc.tl/tnw - something I created in 1 second using a Chrome plugin.