Tag Archives: Strategy Works

Anecdotes from the brink

by on 03 Sep 2010 in Social media, Technology

Anecdotes about social media, technology and the transient times we live in. And iPads.

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Reading the tea leaves

by on 02 Dec 2009 in Social media

Will Content always be free? Google is starting to limit free access to news sites. Will other content providers demand the same?

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Social media for the masses

by on 07 Nov 2009 in Social media

I live on a tiny island.  In Malta, social networks extend to neighbours and friends of friends and migrant communities in the four corners of the globe.  And always, there has been a hunger for technology, learning and shiny electronic devices.  So when social media hit the attention bandwidth, people scrambled to Facebook.  Over 25% [...]

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Be helpful

by on 07 Sep 2009 in Getting organised, Informal Learning, Social media

Chris Brogan recently wrote an excellent post about why community really matters.  And then  Valeria Maltoni waded in that ‘being helpful’ should be ‘the new black’.   If you’re in Melbourne on the 22nd and 23rd September, you can catch my friend Stephen Johnson and social media luminaries  such as Darren Rowse and David Armano over [...]

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Getting to grips with Twitter

by on 13 Feb 2009 in Internet, Social media, 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 [...]

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Serious skills part 1

by on 10 Oct 2008 in Business skills

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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Working home

by on 18 Mar 2008 in Malta

With the exception of a 15-month break, I have worked from home for the past 8 years.  It may not be the norm in Malta, but actually it’s how many people work worldwide.  Whether it’s people fed up with commuting, professionals working for multinationals to minimise office overheads or women juggling working from home with [...]

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