Projects work this week included: - continuing to sell the Google story in the Sydney office - coaching to help people to get the most out of the tools we already provide - meeting with potential recruiters and support service providers Additionally: - got to know the guys in the Sydney office - and met … Continue reading Weeknote 2 – in which I did Sydney
A number of people that I have spoken to in the past few days have observed that doing business in Australia is much more dependent on an individual's network than back in the UK. It can be probably accounted for by a combination of it being a much smaller population, combined with a more outgoing … Continue reading TravelBlog 5 – real v virtual networks
An interesting conversation this afternoon - to what extent are our increasingly instant communications media shrinking the time that we think about what it is that we do? And to what extent does the use of a communications tool mean that we've done something, or just that we've indicated we've done something. A few years … Continue reading TravelBlog 4 – Bad things happen fast
Some time spent this afternoon with our new Digital head in Sydney. It's interesting to hear that clients' interest in social media is now becoming top of the agenda in many briefing sessions. Over a decade ago, American marketing guru Seth Godin wrote a book called Permission Marketing, in which he argued that "interruption marketing" … Continue reading TravelBlog 4 – Digital Marketing
There's no getting away from it - Sydney is a stunningly located city. It is, however, a very, very long way away from home. Our ability to communicate in the modern age is quite simply miraculous. So far today, I've been able to catch up with my Asia IT Manager (who is in Tokyo this … Continue reading TravelBlog 3 – Sydney
One of the advantages of flying into a civil war zone is that the plane was eerily empty. I shared an entire row with just one other passenger (she at one window, me at the other). For all that modern technology has shrunk the world, flying east from Europe to Asia to Australasia still reminds … Continue reading Travelblog 2 – Bangkok Airport
Through the madness of airport security, and into the madness of airside. It seems that the duty free shop has been learning from the sensory deprivation approach so refined by Ikea. Air travel is one of the few places where (for the time being) you can really escape the always on, always connected modern world. … Continue reading TravelBlog 1 – Heathrow T3
Projects work this week included: - issuing the RFP for core network services in our London offices (it went out on Tuesday) - workshopping next steps on being able to issue an "IT Promise" to form the core of the proposition on offer to our clients in the business - running our new ePolicy past … Continue reading Weeknote 1 – in which I presented, and prepared to pack
Without doubt, the most challenging part of the move to Google Apps has been the reaction from some to the fundamental way in which Google Mail structures the information that is presented to the user. Individual emails are threaded together into logical conversations, and you don't put emails into folders, you can place labels onto … Continue reading The slow evolution of email
Following an article in this month's WiredUK by Russell M. Davies, as of tomorrow I'm going to try to get into the habit of doing Weeknotes.
