Achievements this week included: - good time to think with my management team colleagues - closure of sorts on a couple of ongoing management issues - draft spec for a new role I hope to recruit in the near future - some interesting blogging, including getting comments from an editor from an established industry journal … Continue reading Weeknote 73: in which I reassessed Drive
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Achievements this week included: - surviving my first Quarterly Business Review despite being stuck at home with family stomach bug - continuing to articulate and refine the consumer app model - great meetings with @matt to talk about nextrad.io... - ... @mrssimonking at the old gaff... - ... and Andy at The Guardian - and an interesting … Continue reading Weeknote 72: in which Symbian lives
Achievements this week included: - some time in the office to get one-to-one time with many of the team - the opportunity to check out our competition at @ipexpo - great conversations with Beth from our Netherlands' subsidiary... - ... a bunch of people at The National Theatre ... - ... and Phil and Simon from … Continue reading Weeknote 71: awaydays
Achievements mostly spent with global colleagues in Madrid this week included: - refining a model where audiences sit at the heart of all my team do (all as in everything they do and every one of them) - making connections with a number of peers from across the globe... - ... and some of the people who run the … Continue reading Weeknote 70: changes of scene
Achievements this week included: - mapping out the next 12 months in Gantt chart stylee - most helpful - getting the team to make a statement about the evangelism role now and into the future - three days of management training reminding me of how important it is to take stock properly... - ...(and if … Continue reading Weeknote 69 – Avoiding the obvious
Achievements this week included: - clarity starts to emerge on our approach to spreading the word in the next nine months - views into how we can use data from our app marketplaces... - ...and strategies about how we can manage contact data more effectively - and completed this, my 400th blog post Next week: … Continue reading Weeknote 68: blog post 400
Achievements this week included: - discovering what we can and can't say about what we may or may not have seen last week (ssshhhh!) - continuing conversations about new ideas for live event formats - great catch ups with Richard Hall (@CloudOrigin), Trudy, the boys from The Telegraph, and Drew @ 33 (@drewb) - preparation … Continue reading Weeknote 67: back home
Achievements this week included: - attending the Build convention in Anaheim - some great thinking and conversations about how events might be rethought in the future - some inspirational stuff around Agile... and how it might apply to marketing activity - not doing the usual conference thing of burning the candle at both ends Next … Continue reading Weeknote 66 – (one tenth of the beast)
Everything in the US is big. The cars. The roads. The servings of food. The conventions. This is the second US convention that I have attended in the past few months, and the scale of them is just colossal. Thousands of people attended hundreds of talks over a few days in buildings that could on … Continue reading TravelBlog Build: The US Convention experience
I'm off this week to attend the Build conference in LA. Whilst I won't be talking much about the conference content (there are far wiser people to do that on my behalf), there may be some reflections over the course of the week as to the experience of a conference at the gates to Disneyland...
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