Weeknote 133: by Royal appointment

Achievements this week included: - successful sessions at The Partners to look at some ways of working together - picking up some interesting work on a luxury product launch happening in the spring - an onsite offsite session with the leadership team to look at strategic trends - potential engagements with a car company... - … Continue reading Weeknote 133: by Royal appointment

Weeknote 132: slow blogging

Achievements this week included: - delivering a succinct summary of the Agency opportunity to the chap from corp who organises stuff - making connections within the Global Advertising team on some projects they're working on - surviving the final stages of the Mid Year Review process - a last lunch with @andrewdotcom before he disappears … Continue reading Weeknote 132: slow blogging

Weeknote 130: consulting

Achievements this week included: - planning on a cross-subsidiary Win8 training programme on the When to App content - developing a workshop to run with folk from the organisers of fairly major UK sporting events - work with the partner account manager of one of the big consulting firms to see how we can help … Continue reading Weeknote 130: consulting

Weeknote 129: a new year

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

Weeknote 128: Noel (or, “my keyboard’s broken”)

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”)

Weeknote 126: Countdown to Christmas

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

Weeknote 125: HST

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

Weeknote 124: windy

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