This Venturebeat article caught my eye this morning and got me thinking. It first got me thinking that my kids have no concept of TV as anything other than an object (the big screen in the living room). TV isn't even a metaphor for them... "We want to watch something" is their plaintiff cry when … Continue reading TV is just a metaphor
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Over the past few months I've been conducting some research into the use of new digital channels amongst organisations in the UK on behalf of The IG Group. I'm currently going through the analysis of dozens of interviews carried out as part of that process (the full report will be available in the Autumn). As … Continue reading What do you do?
Over the past six months I've been working with Dr Richard Hale who is one of the world's greatest authorities in a people development methodology known as Action Learning. He and I have been thinking about ways in which his rich, proven and academically substantiated frameworks can be delivered in a way that can help … Continue reading Innovation Engine
Responsive Design is a big thing at the moment. If a website has been made to be responsive, it means that it adapts itself to display reasonably sensibly on any screen size (within reason). There are two alternatives to responsive design - do nothing, so that the website appears just as it would on a … Continue reading Going mobile: Day 4: Responsive design
I think that one of my motivations in this mobile-only experiment is the attitude that persists in some parts of the IT community, and that was prevalent when I arrived for my short stint at Microsoft back in 2011 - that mobile phones are "content consumption" devices, that couldn't be used for "proper" computing. That … Continue reading Going Mobile: Day 2: “Proper” computing
One of the things that has come up a lot from others when launching into this mobile-only experiment is that the screen on a mobile phone just isn't big enough to completely replace a laptop. Screen size is subject to two measures - physical screen size, and pixel size. The Nexus 5 that I have … Continue reading Going Mobile: Day 2: screen estate
So I've just about completed my first day of my mobile-only life, and I didn't resort to tablet, laptop or desktop all day. If I was going to crack, I figured this day, working from home, would be the one where it would happen. Very early on I realised that using my phone with a … Continue reading Going mobile: Day1: it’s all in the detail
Last week I got a peculiar invitation to connect on LinkedIn. It was from someone who I had never heard of, apparently holding a senior HR role in a multinational law firm. A few other people I knew were connected to him, but it didn't feel right. I pinged off messages to those I knew … Continue reading The power of the network
So I'm at the beginning of the mobile-only experiment. Alongside the phone and keyboard, I've a charger and a Powergen Mobile Power Pack. That latter accessory is nothing new - I've become accustomed to having to lug that spare battery around with me as usually by lunchtime on a trip into London my phone is … Continue reading Going Mobile: Day 0
Last week I got hold of a cheap Bluetooth keyboard to use with my laptop. Then I had an idea... why not use it with my phone and see whether the time is right to be able to ditch the laptop entirely? This isn't a unique experiment. My long-time chum Euan Semple experimented with an … Continue reading Going Mobile
