Thanks to everyone who came to the Digital Futures talk I did for the CIM recently at the 29 club in Glasgow. Apart from some clear issues with the electric in that place, it was a success. A near full house and lots of great chat with the audience both at the event and afterwards made for a really vibrant atmosphere – even if nobody was willing to ask a question in front of the audience! Anyway, I am getting lots of requests for the presentation from the audience. Future of Digital is now available as a user-friendly PDF on my Google Docs (yes – cloud computing at work!) and I welcome everyone’s thoughts. Apologies though, it’s likely to be out of date already as a week’s passed since I did the talk and digital really does move that fast!

For UHI Perth College and Perth & Kinross Social Economy Partnership, I’ll be doing a talk at NewBiz ’12 in Perth on 7 February. If you want to come along and learn about how to improve your online presence from a searchmarketing perspective, then make sure you make your way to Perth Concert Hall from 9:15 onwards. Stick PH1 5HZ into your Google maps if you’re not sure how to get there! I’ll be posting the presentation I do on here after the event too so be sure to check in and say hi!

Blogging is one of those things that define the modern age – a form of journalism persistently delivered in the first person. “I did this…”. “I think that…”. So, it comes as no surprise when the content and frequency of a blog reflects the life of its owner. Digitalis is no different and the eager reader will notice the great pauses in between posts on this blog.

Well, those days are over. After working on other people’s sites, building sites, buying domains, SEO’ing their ass, it’s now time for me to focus inwards for a bit and allow Digitalis to project outwards a bit more. After poring over thousands of blog themes, getting into overcomplicated portfolio sites and trying to do more than my precious time will allow, I’ve now settled on what you see here (well, as at November 2010 anyhoo). I fully intend to update this blog at least once a week, stay on topic (digital marketing obviously) and generally make something worth reading if internet marketing is your bag.

So, do the right thing, bookmark me, blogroll me, link to me, comment on my posts and it’s fair to say I’ll return the favour. That is unless you’re a Canadian pharmacy, have the secret to a bigger manhood or an Delhi-NCR based spamhaus – it’s the bin for you!

I am certainly dragging this out but I am definitely going to get this site up and running very soon as I am fast learning I have a lot to say about internet and online marketing and people seem to be listening. So thanks to everyone who does. Over the coming months I will be throwing my weight behind such topics as SEO, PPC, Affiliates, Media, Online PR, Social Media and eMail. Yes, lacking focus perhaps but my role as a Digital Strategist and Marketing Director kind of makes me a marketing generalist. So generally good I hope.