Digital by Default

Digital by Default

How I Work (with apologies to Lifehacker!)

I love the ‘How I Work’ series on Lifehacker and recently they encouraged people to contribute their own – I saw Doug had done one and despite the fact I am about the least organised and productive person I know I thought it might be fun to take a stab at the questions 🙂 Location:…

August 29, 2013
Be your user?

A few years ago I remember reading an interview with with either Ev Williams or Jack Dorsey about the early days of Twitter when something like the following was said. The reason Odeo, the podcast service that spawned Twitter, was never a success was that nobody in the team really listened to podcasts and so…

August 27, 2013
ZTE Open and closed

When I saw a tweet from @mozilla announcing that the FirefoxOS powered phone, the ZTE Open, was going to go on sale in the UK for a limited time (via eBay of all things!) I admit I was pretty excited. I jumped online minutes after they went on sale and was one of the (relatively)…

August 26, 2013
The received wisdom of social media

Not for the first time since social media changed my professional world forever I am feeling out of step with the ‘received wisdom’ of the majority of the commentators I come across in the space. I’ve written before about the fact I think the entire obsession with ‘following back‘ is a massive red herring. Nothing…

August 26, 2013
Three links – August 25

How To Build a High-Performing Digital Team As someone expending a lot of energy at the moment trying to build a digital team I found this article interesting and agree with the majority of it. Much as I hate the ‘dog food’ term I think (5) is hugely important. I’m always looking for people who…

August 25, 2013