As of next week, I'm going to be hot desking. This is a personal choice as the department has a minor office move, and given the option I'm going to throw in my hat to the nomadic desk jockey way of life. It scares me. I like my possessions around me. Even more so in … Continue reading Hotdesking
One of my best friends had declared a state of UDI: unilateral digital independence. I'm not sure how I feel about it. She had ditched her smartphone and so now only accesses social services sporadically and through a PC. She lives in the countryside so mobile signals don't permeate the walks of her house so … Continue reading Declaring UDI
My wife and I spent last weekend pottering around the sleepy villages of North Norfolk. Vegas it isn't, but having dropped the kids off with grandparents, we had two days to recharge and spend some time together. It was a nice little break, but one experience has stayed with me. We were queuing to pay … Continue reading An ageing digital population
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
At home, in the cold, with a cold... Next week: hopefully warmer.
I've at last got around to starting to read Simon Sinek's book Start With Why. I like it a lot. I'm also involved at the moment in planning for an event that we're running on the subject of innovation in organisations that I'll be MCing next month (as an aside, places are limited, but if … Continue reading Innovation is a noun, not a verb
According to the most recent episode of BBC Radio 4's The Food Programme, 2013 is going to be a very significant year in the world of food packaging: it's the year in which a government-sponsored, voluntary (but consistent) scheme for labelling food will be introduced, giving a traffic light system for giving consumers an at-a-glance … Continue reading Fifty Shades of Amber
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
Just read an interesting article from Digital Strategist Tom Liacas describing some of the pitfalls that brands find themselves in when they try to use social media as a marketing channel. He describes three de-humanized examples: the psychopath (using times of mass suffering and hardship as a sales opportunity); the robot (endlessly spouting one liners … Continue reading Brands using humans (not humanizing brands)
News this week comes from eConsultancy is that I have a "to be avoided" job title. Thanks chaps. I have to say that "evangelist" is a title that I've always found a little problematic - partly because as an atheist I find it difficult to relate to religious metaphors, and partly because the metaphor itself … Continue reading Meaningful job titles
