Digital by Default

August 26, 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 25, 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 23, 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…