Achievements this week included: - helping eldest son to ride a bike - continued positive noises from the cuddly toy - a nice natter with Martin "boy he" Talks - interesting explorations with Richard and Tim (partly in Swindon) - getting things in place for the London Irish Centre - a fun afternoon at Connected … Continue reading Weeknote 186: connected business
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Achievements this week included: - delivering a great pitch with @AJPLaw - a fascinating consultation with a Harley Street expert (thankfully for professional rather than medical purposes) - further conversations about some office space - a few top-notch Twitter-led debates - finishing off my presentation for Connected Business next week - and topping it off with … Continue reading Weeknote 185: gaining ground
Achievements this week included: - the excitement of pitch preparation (for first thing Monday) - great meeting with Ian Cox - some interesting developments on the Pharma front - getting under the skin of Apptual - up and running with my new Nexus 5 (more thoughts on that soon) - and a discussion with another … Continue reading Weeknote 184: frankenfurter
Achievements this week included: - follow-up on the New Jersey adventure - some exciting conversations with an office manager - the beginning of beautiful blossomings with Bloom - connections between the BCS and the world of action learning - a tip off from The Law - understanding how fingerprinting and watermarking mean the death of … Continue reading Weeknote 183: be my Ballantine
One of the things that has been most striking in re-reading Negroponte's being digital is the belief that he had two decades ago that the rise of digital channels would lead to new, multi-media content forms. The book was written at the height of the CD-ROM multimedia craze, when Encarta was going to supersede Britannica and … Continue reading Multiple media
Achievements this week included: - great introduction to Patrick from 3 Circle Partners - another piece published for CIO - and a crazy madcap adventure to New Jersey and back in 48 hours Next week: testing waters
Back in September I gave a talk about the importance of empathy in design at the wonderful Silicon Beach event in Bournemouth. The video of me prattling on is now available here:
Eighteen years ago I bought a book that changed the way in which I thought about the world. It was a book I wanted to share, and after I had consumed it page-by-page, I leant it to a friend and never saw it again. The book was Nicholas Negroponte's being digital, first published in 1995, in … Continue reading a generation of being digital
Achievements this week included: - a couple of interesting Plan B leads - a great insight into Action Learning (and how it might help Plan A) - planning for a madcap trip to the US next week - a good chinwag with my old boss Simon (that's old in both senses of the term in … Continue reading Weeknote 181: traction?
Achievements this week included: - launch of the 3rd #socialCEO report - my first column for CIO magazine - great meetings with James B in his new abode... - ... Diana and Samar to discussion the intersection of digital and architecture... - ... Talksy... - ... Dr Jack, my favourite Neuroscientist... - and old BBC chum … Continue reading Weeknote 180: Treble top
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