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Trend Unit
(UK) It seems most meetings I go into or chats I have with colleagues or even when I catch up with friends, I end up talking about how I track and monitor the three sectors which Phatgnat focuses on (youth, public and private sectors). I try and explain to them about RSS feeds, then I show them my RSS aggregator, then I tell them about this log, then I talk about how I collate news items of interest on the web, and then how I create my bulletins in html before emailing it.
It's a tiring but crucial process to stay informed—I am my own 'Phatgnat Trend Unit'.
Trend-a-what? Just check out the latest newsletter from my friend Reinier over at trendwatching.com on 'Trend Units: Why we all can and should be trend watchers'.
This stuff is pure gold and no matter what you do you, where you do it and who you do it for/with, you should be doing some, if not all of this! As for me, I now have something I can just forward my friends…
Related posts: (on PSFK—my moonlighting gig—regarding the trendwatching.com seminar I attended end of last year) trendwatching.com
Filed by DK on February 9 2006
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