Archive for 'Business'

Recommended Reading: Peter Harris Blog- Stop, collaborate and LISTEN

Peter Harris, MD of Vision Critical in Australia (and on Twitter @peteraharris), wrote an excellent blog post that summarises the issues with research and how we can learn from of all people ‘Vanilla Ice’.
His blog post- Stop, collaborate and LISTEN, focuses on the issues with research and those that do and do not use it- [...]

On Your Own But Not Alone

Well it’s nearly 12 months since I braved the market, through caution to the wind and decided to start working for myself.
Like many in a similar situation, I went through the roller coaster of emotions. One day it would be the best decision you have ever made, the next- career suicide! Add in the fact [...]

Tips for the Road Warrior from Life Hacker

Kevin Purdy over at Life Hacker has put together a great list of downloads and tips for those of us who are out and about with our laptops more than most. There are apps for both PC and Mac, and I highly recommend taking a look.
If you are anything like me, you are always looking [...]

Searching for WiFi Nirvana

I started writing this post from a cafe up the road from my house whilst waiting for my Chiropractor appointment. I needed to go to the bank and post office so figured I would just stay out and get some work done. Searching for a cafe to work from I suddenly remembered that it was [...]

Making the Switch

I have finally decided to take the plunge and have signed up for Google Apps to host my corporate mail. This is not something that I expected to do, and until know had been taking the ‘cheapskate’ route and running my mail through an existing hosting account that I have for other domains (including this [...]

How to Write Your Firm’s Social Media Policy

With all the rush to create a social media policy for an organisation, often the simple approach is often the best.
A recent post over on the FreshNetworks blog gives some good points about how to write a social media policy. If you are in the process of compiling a policy for your organisation (and you [...]

Weekly Roundup

Not exactly article from just this week, but definitely some here that are worth a read:
Knowledge Management and Social Business Transformation. Guest post by Jenni Beattie from Digital Democracy over on Market Magazine.
The fundamentals haven’t changed just the tools and technologies! Post by David Wesson over at his personal blog Digital Culture. Video from this [...]

Jeff Bezos- It’s Always Day 1

Great video of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos talking about starting the company from his house, through to the recent acquisition of Zappos.