Digital by Default

Digital by Default

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
The Medium is the message

Fifty weeks after initially signing up to Medium I was finally invited to actually contribute some writing to it. Initially I was actually quite honoured as invites had been like gold-dust up until then. Then I looked at Twitter and realised the flood gates had opened and I was anything but special. I wanted to…

August 23, 2013
52: Week Seventeen

Lots of meetings this week but it was one of those rare occasions when for the most part they seemed useful and interesting. This amazing occurrence happened the same week I learned that Vergaderziekte means “meeting sickness” in Dutch which I think I have suffered from more than once in the past but maybe this…

August 23, 2013
Easy Like Sunday Morning (Football)

I was 10 years old the first time I played organised football on a Sunday morning. Long before the advent of smaller pitches and goalmouths for children I played on full sized pitches barely able to see the cross bar let alone touch it and I was lucky to clear the penalty area with my…

August 22, 2013