Stop Comparing: Start Creating

In the UK currently we’re coming to the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee – while at the same time everyone’s talking about how our country needs to be more innovative and entrepreneurial. But might not the first rule out the second? The more we celebrate Royalty and take days off to do this, the more we acknowledge [...]

Should You Think INSIDE The Box?

Maybe you know this feeling. You get an idea, you start to research it, that takes you tangentially to lots of other sources of inspiration – and quite soon, you have 7 ideas… none of which you’ve drilled down into, or looked at in the harsh light of reality. Now people have written ominous tomes [...]

Blog To Book with WordPress

It was a most fantastic day at Cybher yesterday, the women bloggers conference and you may guess that there was absolutely no need at all for anyone to pump up the volume… Heck, some of these gals can talk.. Big thanks to Sian and her team for the event and invite to contribute – and [...]

The Determinedly Difficult Person: Survival Tips

So you go into a meeting/workshop/tutorial room feeling on top of your game… looking forward to your session…and positive interaction – and then you spot them. Sitting slightly away from everyone else, they will be demonstrably engrossed in their smart phone, i-pad or incredibly pressing work. Yes, they are a member of that global tribe, [...]

How Self-Publishing Rewrites Failure

Sometimes I think the web may be inducing extreme binary thinking – everything here is either evil incarnate and all our children will be pornographers – or, it is our great salvation, where we will collaboratively experience some kind of sharing rapture. People get their knickers in a twist equally about self-publishing. All ‘traditional’ or [...]

C.R.A.P. Detecting: the Essential Online Skill

Ok. Now those of you in education can snigger here, for there is much bracing in the cowshed for a new project. Am about to enter the pit of controversy and affray known as Impact Skills in Academia… wish me luck and safe passage please… Which brings me to today’s offer. Fate, or rather friend [...]

Getting Your Fascinator Out

While I just resisted buying the Fascination Advantage Kit online, as it was insufficiently fascinating…how we interest others in our projects, be they new schemes, products or events is – for many of us – an ongoing challenge… And while sticking a bunch of feathers or such like on top of our heads may not

Are You A Performance Wannabe?

In the world of elite sport, ‘performance wannabe’ is a slightly pejorative term. It refers to someone who works in performance but who hasn’t been a world-class athlete themselves. Which begs the question : do you need to have had spectacular achievement in a sector to coach in it? Now fortunately for the rest of [...]

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Why I Hate Likes and Love Slideshare

Like you maybe, I’ve had a little social media journey – starting a blog, joining twitter and linked – in, and then feeling that I should do Google + and Facebook. But these shoulds rarely work in life, do they?… and in truth I shouldn’t have bothered… Reading Mark Schaefer’s

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