A few days ago I saw a blog post where someone was expressing their dissatisfaction with the business networking site LinkedIn. I’ve come to one conclusion – LinkedIn is worthless to me. Alright, so blunt cynicism aside, I’ve not found very many benefits from the site. It seems like you connect with people who barely … Continue reading Writing a novel
Category: Social
In a few conversations in recent days I've been noticing how there is often an assumptive merging of two (for me) distinct concepts - millennials and digital natives. I see myself as a digital native. Although I can kind of remember a time without computers around me, I struggle to. I taught myself to program … Continue reading Millennial state of mind
Work with one of my clients at the moment is focused on the use and adoption of collaborative tools - social networks within the organisation. This is a path down which I have travelled a number of times over the years, but I'm realising this time around that something is now fundamentally different. Before, questions … Continue reading What’s stopping you?
I've been asked by a client to pull together a session looking at the future of career paths and career planning towards the end of the year. It's an interesting assignment, and a theme in which I've made fairly significant experimental investments in the past few years (often to my wife's considerable consternation). Undoubtedly "working … Continue reading The future of career paths
During Social Media Week in London, along with Katie King, I presented on the challenges that Social and Digital channels are placing onto the ways in which organisations are interacting with their customers. The presentation gave an overview of the report that I researched and wrote this summer for IG Digital. You can see the … Continue reading Social Media Week – The Social Challenge
On Saturday I wanted a pizza. I’d been out to watch Watford play at Vicarage Road for the first time in about five years, had had a couple of pints on the way back, and couldn’t be bothered to cook. I’m not a habitual take-away food consumer, but once in a while… I downloaded the … Continue reading The dominos effect
Spend a lot of your time firefighting? It's a funny metaphor, because one group of people who don't are firefighters. The fire service spends a huge amount of its effort, through education, regulation and other activities, trying to reduce the amount of time that it spends doing the thing it is assumed that they do … Continue reading Firefighting
I'm living a semi-corporate life at the moment, with a longer term piece of contract work with a large client. Having spent the past 12 months pivoting on a sixpence, I'm now experiencing some of the things I'd vaguely forgotten - and top of the list is that broker of inefficient productivity, the networked diary. … Continue reading Efficient unproductivity
This morning saw the culmination of about five months' work - the release of the research report that I've investigated and compiled over this summer for IG Digital, and the event organised in conjunction with social PR firm Zoodikers at which we launched. The research involved me speaking with or online interrogating people from 65 organisations across … Continue reading Meeting of minds
You've got to love the Internet. Find a challenge that you haven't come across before? Tippetty-tap on Google and before you know it you've found someone who has already. And so it has been with the issues of agile approaches to software delivery in the context of collaboration tools that I mentioned earlier this week. … Continue reading Collaborative personae
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