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Hey, that’s your business! Or it could be. Vandals pulled a large number of BT cables out of the ground in our local town (Camberley), leaving thousands of people and [...]
About The Blogger
Internet engineer, turned business exec and developing psychologist Benjamin Ellis is passionate about technology that solves human problems, and humans that solve technology problems. Benjamin blogs mostly on productivity, communication and technology. WOWNDADI - Work out what needs doing and do it.
Avoiding a Business Communication Crisis
Future of The Web - Part II - The Future
A minutely belated followup to “Future of The Web - Part I - A History“, these are the rest of my thoughts on the NESTA “Future of the Web“ session. The videos of the event are here - you’ll need to be able to play Windows Media files.
Unsurprisingly, there were some parallels with the previous session (see Tim Berners-Lee [...]
WordCampUK 2008
I use both commercial and open source software. Choosing the best tool for the job is the priority. However, one thing that I do really appreciate with open source is the communities that operate around each platform.
For the first time in the UK, the WordPress community is gathering. WordCamp UK will be held from Saturday July 19 [...]
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Pitchers
On the way home, my thoughts turned to “what makes a good pitch?” Over the years I’ve been on both sides of the table, prepping the pitches and pitching businesses for funding, but also listening to company pitches with a view to investment or acquisition. As I was describing these my ever astute COO, she said “That sounds like the seven habits of highly effective pitchers”, so here they are…
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