Should I use my personal Twitter account when starting a business?
A friend of mine has set up a new business. It’s a modest operation at present and…
Monkeys with coffee pots
You may well have seen the new UK ad from Costa Coffee; it took a while to filter…
#UKsnow “was not our finest hour” says easyJet UK General Manager
I must admit, I was dreading this day. But possibly not as much as easyJet must…
Tuttle Club is all aglow
Debbie Davies has designed these fab skirts which she was showing off at Tuttle…
London gets more social
A sneak preview of TFL's new cycle fleet! We walked past this flashy new docking…
Ooh look: an all male panel at a tech conference!
The final session of day 2 of the Cloud Computing World Forum and these five have…
All hail the pancake! A flatter, more collaborative corporate structure
The other presentation that inspired me at The Web and Beyond was by Josephine…
Stephen P Anderson presents his Mental Notes
What psychological tricks can we use to modify behaviour? Design consultant Stephen…
Speaking to UN workers in Geneva
I’m at a social media round table at the offices of LABEL in Geneva.…
Debating with Andrew Keen in Berlin
When I chose Monkeys with Typewriters as the name for my book on social media, I…
If men were “having it all” they’d be depressed, too!
There are two things I’m a bit sick of in the press this week, first is the idea…
Marketing: It’s not about the elves!
I read Doug Rushkoff’s Cyberia back in 1992 and loved it. Rushkoff is great at…
Coming up roses? Let’s compare organisational IT to gardening
I like the analogy from Mark Raskino at Gartner who says that we should compare…
Today is Ada Lovelace Day and I’m grateful for family planning
And of all the women in science and technology to whom I might be grateful, Marie…
The future of business ecosystems
Yesterday I had the pleasure of moderating a discussion on the future of business…
A social approach to corporate communications
Earlier this week at the Social Media World Forum, David Terrar was asking if any…
In looking to the future, we mustn’t forget our past
I’m mulling over stories to tell at Social Business Edge in New York next month.…
Anxiety dream: institutions, airports and ice cream
Noam and I are living in some weird warren-like commune/ community/ educational…
Here’s to us: the digital pioneers!
We’re constantly hearing about the ‘Net generation, digital natives and web-savvy…