Business Reimagined – Public and private approaches to change
The latest in Microsoft’s Business Reimagined series of events looked at change across the public and private sectors, at The Hub Westminster. Although they are very different worlds, I’ve always found that they have much to learn from each other – often we don’t really understand our own environment until we have looked at it [...]
Business to Business Marketing – The b2bhuddle Event
This is from a Storify created via an iPad (if you haven’t used Storify before, do check it out – it’s a great way to curate content from across social platforms). I’ve used it to pick out some key tweets from the May 2013 b2bhuddle Event. It was the 6th B2B Social Media Huddle, hosted at Oracle’s building in [...]
Goodbye Posterous
Today is Posterous’s last day. Posterous started in July 2008 and was a great and easy way to share short-form blog content, and it rapidly became popular. In fact so popular that Twitter acquired it last year. This was clearly a technology and talent acquisition rather than a platform one, and so a little while ago the [...]
Unbreaking The Workplace
Last week’s APA “Healthy Workplace Awards” should have been a celebration of all that is good in the work place, and they were. Congratulations to APA’s 2013 Psychologically Healthy Workplace Award Winners. Employee engagement matters, study after study has shown that it is one of the most significant factors in a business’s success. The winners represent [...]
Writing Good Web Copy
Want to write better web copy? Over on the Whiteoaks blog, Abigail Harrison has posted a list of tips for writing online copy. It was timely, as I’ve got back to some fairly heavy-duty blogging recently, just as Google retire Google Reader. The post inspired me to add a some additional suggestions to 3 of [...]
Nokia – Time to Switch?
The business phone is evolving from something that just handles phones calls, through the main place that people interact with emails, to the central business hub for web-based business apps. It has been, and will be, a long journey. Most businesses are really only just getting their mobile strategies in step with the world of smart [...]
Get Visual Get Seen
“I see you” – a phrase most recently made famous in the film Avatar, where the Na’vi tribe use the phrase as a greeting, with a deeper meaning, where the ‘see’ implies a connection with other person. The word ‘see’ is a curious one in the English language. We can ‘see‘ things, but I can [...]
