I’m finalising my slides for a presentation on social media for SMEs next Friday. As I try and wade through the ‘social media’ column on my TweetDeck to pick up the latest conversations on the subject, there seems to be a number of common threads: 1. Early adopters of social media tools are up in […]
When Gmail went down: sheer poetry
As I write this, Gmail has been down for over five hours. I’m still looking at a ‘502 server error’ message’ in Malta, though some people are saying the service is slowly coming back to life. It’s something quite unprecedented. The news broke early on Twitter, as the eager, connected social media types tried to […]
Getting to grips with Twitter
I signed up to Twitter ages ago. Like many people, I dipped my toes into the medium, read that Seth Godin did not use it, and ‘politely’ ignored it. I had a major rethink about social media since we started working in earnest on our new ‘Tribes’ project. And the penny dropped. Twitter is really […]
Can you outsource your corporate blog?
A corporate blog is PR isn’t it? And few companies have a problem outsourcing PR. So why would they have a problem getting a blog written on their behalf? After all, outsiders write sales and marketing collateral, press releases, company newsletters and a whole lot more. But there’s a big difference in how blogs are […]
Alt-MBA deadline
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi Today is the last day you can register for the Alt-MBA, an initiative inspired by this. It’s open to anyone with a desire to learn and connect with some very gifted individuals, but the deadline to […]
Our new year mashup
I’m never quite sure what to make of year end resolutions – I keep making mine shorter. But like Godin, I think there is no such time as NOW to “use cheap media, available attention and great talent to make something that matters”. Everyone I know is cost cutting, firing, waiting for some positive sign from […]
Skills to survive and succeed at work
On 10th December, I was invited by the University of Malta to give a lecture on business skills in the work place. The lecture was part of the DegreePlus programme, which provides young people with practical skills and formative experiences. I like this programme – it always strikes me that most people are totally unprepared for […]
Seth’s out to change lives
I never got an MBA. I’ve mentored a few, managed to get into Cranfield School of Management to pursue a PhD.. but, somehow, work, running a business, moving countries, having a child, always pushed academia to the side. And I guess with time you realise that you can never stop learning. And that the structured […]
Serious skills part 2
Ann E W Stone says that she once read a book that changed the course of her career, and her life. She learnt that people make snap decisions on others based on ‘signals; and that it was within one’s power to manage those signals. The first part of her transformation was to understand the operating […]
Serious skills part 1
On Tuesday I trudged to the Chamber of Commerce to listen to a 90-minute talk by Ann E W Stone, founder of The Stone Group , an international business and political consultancy. I was intrigued by the tile of the session: ’25 skills that signal you are to be taken seriously’. In the first part […]
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