The dulcet strains of Irish hip hop music performed live by Abandoman greeted fans of Ben & Jerry's ice cream on the first night of the new "moosical", celebrating 35 years of making ice cream. The pair, who were born and grew up close to each other without ever actually...

For years, certain companies have made a living doing something akin to 'gaming' the Google search results. By focusing on a single distribution channel, they have built visibility in the search engine result pages in order to acquire new customers or new leads. Recent changes in the Google search algorithm...

Easter, to many, is all about bunnies, chocolate eggs and candy. As I know from researching chocolate for the Mostly About Chocolate blog, chocolate manufacturing is on the decline in the UK so this year I decided to feature British-made eggs. With eggs from one of the best chocolatiers in...

As the only farmer-owned chocolate company that I am aware of, Divine Chocolate is extremely special. Farmers in Ghana came together and decided to make a better life for themselves by selling chocolate direct to the market instead of to major multinationals. This is how KUAPA...

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Ever since I started working in IT I've been told that I make less than a man with the same skills. I chose to ignore that and focus on doing an awesome job,...

Valentine's Day seems fraught with seemingly unknowable dangers. What happens if he doesn't like the cologne? What happens if she doesn't like the chocolates? What happens if I get bad chocolates for him/her unknowingly? Does she really want a deep fat fryer for Valentine's Day or was that just sarcasm?...

Among all the food producers doing great work in their communities, one has stood out from the crowd. This person has worked to not only improve the lives and livelihood of the plantation farmers he works with, but also a local shelter. He's committed to not just selling chocolate, but...

In most of the important industries in our lives, people and businesses are accredited in some way. Solicitors are part of a society which can remove their credentials, doctors are part of a council which can strike them off, accountants have degrees and accreditation, boiler maintenance people are certified. These...

The origins of Christmas are pretty much well known. There was a whole virgin birth in a manger while trekking across Africa or something, but what is less well known is that it was originally a pagan holiday which was criminalised until 1907 in the US.

It was in 601...

Kicked off with a keynote from Vincent Siderof BBC Worldwide (BBCW), the AllFacebook Marketing Conference was an illuminating event with masses of statistics and speakers from a number of diverse agencies and companies. Regrettably with only three women 'speakers' and with them only appearing on panels, there seems...

In this day and age of huge pressures on airlines and airports alike to move more people than ever from A to B safely and quickly, is moving to a cloud-based, open-source software solution really the right one for these businesses to make? One of the world leaders in software...

I recently had the immense good fortune to be able to talk to Danny Sullivan about search. He has not only been around the industry since its formation but he runs a series of conferences called SMX. He took time out from his extremely busy schedule in the run up...

The seemingly humble email attachment turned 20 on March 11 2012 and over the years of its life, it's fair to say it has put on a lot of weight. So large has it become, in fact, that measures have had to be taken to restrict its further growth by...

Every year is the year of something and this year I propose that it is the year of the girl geek. Why? There are so many reasons (and none of them are even remotely pink).

You can now talk to your phone and set it to "red alert"! OK -...