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Out of Hours – September Gone
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There is something of a WOWNDADI blog tradition that I write an end of month wrap up post. This month’s is a little extended and a little late, since September was no ordinary month.
The Power of Being There
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1… 2… 3… And I’m back in the room. Or more accurately, back in the country. If you want to read about last week’s adventures on the digital mission, then check out my guest post on TechCrunch UK: “21 Digital Companies hit New York..” A big thank you to Mike Butcher for letting my scrawl interweave with [...]
How to Write a Speech in 5 Minutes
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Making a really great speech or presentation requires a great deal of preparation and practice. In an ideal world, you would always have time to plan, rehearse and perfect your words of wisdom. However, sometimes things don’t work out that way. Here is a simple process to enable you to prepare a speech (or presentation) in five minutes…
Randomness, Virtualisation and Getting Things Done
(click and rate it) Loading ...This may be random. For once, I am speechless. Or at least wordless. You know me. That doesn’t happen. Ever. I might go quiet, but that is different from not having something to say. Perhaps it is all the different threads in my head?
There are big Redcatco projects in the wings, new blogs to feed, [...]
The 9th Habit of Highly Effective People – Look after your data!
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Stephen Covey has already published the The 8th Habit, so I’ll have to put this down as the 9th habit of highly effective people.
These days we have more knowledge than we can comfortably fit in our heads, so we depend on our trusty computers to keep all of that overflowing information safe. From important e-mails, to irreplaceable family photos, or [...]
Open Learning – Determined People with Tenacious Goals
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The Open University learning environment is a technology-mediated communication role model. Even so, the OU still brings learners together for ‘real-world’ events. That has been the reason for a no blog posts this last week – I have been working my little socks off at Bath University, conducting research projects with a few hundred other people.
I was [...]
Do Your Employees Dance?
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Bees are viewed as hyper productive, industrious creatures, working away industriously. The bee hive is the very model of business, full of busy bees. But what do they teach us about business?
