Real Networking doesn’t necessarily SHOUT
I had a whale of a time working with some seriously creative people who formed part of a business-to-business advertising agency back in the 90s. The guiding light of the company was the CEO, a delightfully ‘mad’ Finn who turned out to be one of the most frustrating, annoying, stretching and empowering employers I’ve ever [...]
On referrals that you can do without…
A look at those referrals that people kindly pass your way but which end up being less than fruitful – when favours for friends of friends really are not helpful or sensible!
Does my bum look big in this? A look at lying and selling
A train of thought along similar lines to Dr Greg House’s belief that everybody lies (especially patients) led me to contemplating that everybody sells, too. When we think about it, the concept of everybody does it, lying and selling, has at least an essence of truth. We lie and sell deliberately, inadvertently or unintentionally; effectively [...]
#NREHelp – Help National Rail Enquiries improve their Twitter service – a Crowd Sourcing project
It was a difficult day getting into work yesterday, and like many commuters I was stuck in an unmanned station with a lot of snow, no trains and a group of rather disappointed commuters unable to find out what was going on. So of course I turned to my phone to see if I could [...]
Networking…
Its all just Networking – so lets help each other out! I’m putting together a twitter workshop at the moment, and one of the tasks I’ve set myself is to find out how other people use twitter. Of course, the way I did this is to write a set of questions and ask my friends [...]
In her shoes: My descent in entrepreneurial hell
In her shoes is a series of anonymous posts from women in business, sharing their experience. In your comments you are asked to answer the question – What would you do in her shoes? My story began 9 months ago; it is a story of self-realisation, friendship, love and betrayal. After 11 years at home [...]
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