Achievements this week included: - successful continued use of the Pomodoro technique for task and time management (note for future reference: ditch New Year resolutions and instead start implementing them at the end of the old year) - a stack of meetings arranged to help push the Why App content across the business and beyond … Continue reading Weeknote 129: a new year
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Achievements on this last working week of the year included: - A fun Why App? presentation at the VCCP offices, surrounded by banana pianos - An entertaining session with the leads of the marketing agencies that we work with in the UK talking about tech and marketing - Getting to grips with Surface (first impressions: … Continue reading Weeknote 128: Noel (or, “my keyboard’s broken”)
Achievements this week included: - interesting connections made with the Azure group - preparation for two agency sessions next week - a great workshop with the Bing UK team Next week: the 2012 home stretch.
Achievements this week included: - a great series of meetings with folk on Monday, including a high-rise conversation with Roger from http://www.profinda.com - new presentations pulled together for events in the next couple of weeks - an "apps process" for non technical folk - and some thinking on the future of start ups Next week: … Continue reading Weeknote 126: Countdown to Christmas
Achievements this week included: - further content creation work on Why App? (a slight change of name there...) - contacts made on the agency work in the corporate mother ship - invitations to present at an agency day happening next month - fascinating insight from Visa Europe - the wonderful news from The Partners - … Continue reading Weeknote 125: HST
Achievements this week included: - an interesting time at the CBI conference - presenting on the impact of consumerisation at the IT in Housing event in London - refining and developing the When to App content & workshops - some interesting conversations about activity at MWC 2013 - and a successful first week of potty training … Continue reading Weeknote 124: windy
Achievements this week included: - good catch ups with former colleagues from the BBC and Imagination - interesting connections made with our Windows, Consulting and Partner businesses - a visit at last to http://www.modernjago.co.uk/ - some thinking around how gaming, content and apps align - and a successful evening's presenting at the wonderful http://www.metaphwoar.org/ Next … Continue reading Weeknote 123: metaphwoarically speaking
Achievements this week included: - great meetings with Lawrence @LogistikGroup about some sessions at Modern Jago next month - a successful session at the #mshuddle event at Mindshare - a great fun evening as a partner of The Partners talking analogously - and some spit and polish on forthcoming presentations Next week: catching up with colleagues old to … Continue reading Weeknote 122: testing ground
Achievements this week included: - final cut of the When to app framework for next week's Huddle - and prep for a few of the other events I've got coming up - good catch up with @andrewdotcom (he always likes a mention ;o)) - and further conversations about how the agency work moves forward Next week: event-o-rama
Achievements this week included: - an action plan for the next three months - first take on developing a "When to App" workshop - a fun evening delivering the keynote at the M&S Hackathon - developing slides for the Metaphwoar event - and also for the Housing Association event I'm presenting at next month Next … Continue reading Weeknote 120: no such thing as a free launch