http://www.josephpkelly.com Thinking out loud Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:19:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It has been quite an interesting and eventful year to gain business experience. From launching the Loopthing Social Business Network in April we have had a busy 8 months full of increased challenges and demands, with invaluable experience for a young team, wrap this up in a global economic recession ... http://www.josephpkelly.com/ending-2009/ As I sit here on a cold pre 2009 Christmas evening, we have begun to set in motion the Loopthing network's focus on the UK capital.  So what does that entail other than a hell of a lot of hard work. Well first of all we need to build a ... http://www.josephpkelly.com/loopthing-london/ Over the past 4-5 months I've been recognising some demographic trends that make me a little bit nervous. Being based in London and travelling back to Cork frequently I have a good chance to identify changes in both environments. The one which concerns me most is the amount of young talented ... http://www.josephpkelly.com/bleeding-talent/ At the moment we at Loopthing are trying to source capital for our seed funding round. We always anticipated this would be hard, and our expectation has been correct. The avenues we have chosen to source this investment from include - Business Angel Partnership, Enterprise Ireland Growth Capital, and most recently ... http://www.josephpkelly.com/seed-capital-funding/ This week has been very interesting. After deciding to really focus on London as a market for Loopthing, I was left contemplating different avenues to achieve this. After a quick meeting in the west end I had one of my answers. We will now be undertaking a video podcast series based ... http://www.josephpkelly.com/the-week-in-review/ I've been exploring the benefits of Twitter lists over the past week to see what value they provide. Personally I have no real need to create lists. Categorising offers little value over my stream. I've been creating private lists (groups) on tweetdeck for sometime now and they are rarely used. So ... http://www.josephpkelly.com/twitter-lists/ So just over a week after releasing the OpenScore application, how are things going? Well, we've been studying the output data intensively in order to ensure our premium analysis tools are as accurate and beneficial as possible.  We've started to see some nice variation in the static and dynamic score for ... http://www.josephpkelly.com/openscore-progress/ The official launch of Loopthing and the release of the OpenScore application went well. The live webcast was an interesting format to do and myself and Vlad found it worked a treat, so much so that it will probably become a monthly briefing tool for Loopthing's members and our wider ... http://www.josephpkelly.com/milestone-reached/ After a huge push last week, we are getting to the final stages of development before our official launch on the 27th of October. Most of the work we are doing at the moment revolves around the creation of our first business support module. It's pretty intensive stuff, but the ... http://www.josephpkelly.com/loopthings-development-progress/ Bit by bit everything is coming together for the Loopthing official launch on the 27th of October. Earlier this week we enabled Loopthing support for Youtube, Vimeo, Viddler and Flickr. We are also working on implementing other popular third party online media platforms that are utilised for business use. Together this all ... http://www.josephpkelly.com/loopthing-launch-update/