I was interested to hear that you recommend Facebook for most companies [I think you actually said "all companies"] but I m struggling to find relevance for my manufacturing based clients such as http://www.greenbarnes.co.uk or even http://www.torse.co.uk who, to be honest, would agree with me when I would describe any companies mentioned on Facebook as either fads, fashionable [eg the footware company mentioned] or simply not that serious. My question would be – how could a manufacturing company like Greenbarnes [or other imaginary industrial company] use Facebook?

Thanks for the inspiration so far.

I attended a Data Protection course recently that stated a new European law is coming into force next year concerning the use of Cookies and ensuring websites using cookies to track customers on their sites must highlight to users that “this is a cookie site” and gives them the option to enable/disable cookies, which could signal the end for tracking people’s movements on your site. People unclear about cookies would simply log off in my opinion.

What was unclear was how the law was to be implemented, whether it would be on the home page of a site or on each and every page, which would surely affect anyone’s decision to keep using such sites.

If this law is coming, which the trainer assured me it was and she has doubled checked this with a leading Data Protection QC in London, this will surely affect any measuring process we put into place. I would be really interested in hearing your views.