Things I have learned this week: As I start Stamp's European expansion, I do wonder at how easy it is currently to do business and sell my services to a client on continental Europe, and how unbelievably fucking miserable it's going to get if we go ahead with a project that, as I saw recently … Continue reading Weeknote 357: Exporting
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This week I have learned: the power of pictures, even scrappy, hand drawn pictures, in communicating a message that my business is expanding into Europe. Time to get the Irish passport... that my best sales tool is probably an ability to stand up and tell a half-funny story that Twitter Blankety Blank is awesome. Next … Continue reading Weeknote 356: raining clients
Every year to accompany the Silicon Beach event, those speaking are asked to contribute to a book that is distributed to all attendees. Here's my contribution... A good friend of mine and I enjoy a heated debate. She’s an accountant with opinions. I’m a gob-shite. We both like a glass or two of red with … Continue reading Blindly Following Rules
This week I have learned: - how to draw a chicken - why Silicon Beach is my favourite of events Next week: more new stuff
Having recently learned to draw a cartoon chicken* following the wonderful tutorial from @SimonHeath1, and now fully in flow with the iPad/Pencil program, a new diversion: Heath Chickenson. Episode 1: *Simon's instructions are technically for a pigeon. Don't let that distract you.
This week I have learned: - the organisational power and reach of Twitter is still surprising - Broadcasting House has changed a bit since I was last there - repeat business is really nice as a validation of my work - but I’m still embracing the imposter Next week: Silicon Beach
This week I have learned: The temptation to make cloud like problems subject to clock like analysis is relentless in organisations. Two weeks left before Silicon Beach and I think I have my story straight. I struggle to understand people who don't understand that all politics is how suspended because of Brexit. Next week the … Continue reading Weeknote 353: user experience
One of the things I noted early on about my use of paper notepads was how it often serves the role of a mobile flip chart. I draw (not particularly well) to help explain or explore ideas with others. One of my big bugbears with using web conferencing services like Hangouts is the loss of … Continue reading The no-notebook experiment: day 5
This week I have learned: Migraines suck. I know this. I just get occasionally reminded of this fact. Marketing and communications, and change management are not one of the same thing. They are, though, intrinsically linked. I'm still not sure if I can go paperless, but will continue to experiment. Next week: Marketing plans
Following on from Wednesday’s experiments in marking up documents I think I’ve come to the conclusion that Evernote works better for me than OneNote. To an extent this is a choice akin to a Moleskine over a Leuctturm1917, mostly in the aesthetics. But there are a few points to rationalise it... OneNote doesn’t support the … Continue reading The no-notebook experiment: day 4
