Got a mailer from The National Trust today. 12 months for the price of 9 or something like that. Piqued my interest; the kids are old enough now for this to be viable, and we have a puppy that likes to go to new places. My first question? What NT venues [...]

In these digitally connected times, you don’t need to wait for that annual industry event to engage with the people you want to do business with. It isn’t just coffee and cocktails that you can connect over, these days you can *meet* in a LinkedIn Group, connect via a hashtag, have banter on a [...]

A business is fundamentally two things; a brand and its people. With communications now able to flow freely between all people inside and outside the organisation the way business is done has changed whether we like it or not.
I have been thinking about the differences and the questions we all need to [...]

I have not posted for a long while. I haven’t even looked at my site or managed to do anything other than the bare minimum to keep the home fires burning. I won’t go into detail, but this is because my youngest daughter Claudia was very ill and I have spent a long [...]

If you make an extra bit of effort all the time the difference is clear. Smile more, help people more, work a bit harder, be a better friend, get up a little earlier, go to bed a little earlier, run a bit faster, cook something new, bake a cake….try it, it really does make [...]

People who know me well understand my overriding sense of fairness, and that I am unlikely to keep quiet if I think something is unfair. Recently I have again become very aware of the ‘rewards for disloyalty’ programme that seems to be in operation from some of the better known online supermarkets. Over [...]

I am regularly asked how I use social media for business development so thought I would write it down. I hope it helps.
Incidentally, by putting it down on paper (figuratively speaking) I noticed something. I studied physics and will never forget something my A-Level physics teacher said to me – ‘Physics is 4 [...]

Everybody is talking about how social media is changing everything. Some people seem to be waiting for the mist to fade and for it all to become clear so they can fully understand how it works. The way I see it is that this ‘changing’ is here to stay. Change is the new [...]

I’ll be brief.
I am struggling with my ‘job title’. I am concerned it could carry negative connotations and assumption.
What is your opinion? I am currently billed as ‘business development’ on LinkedIn etc… What is your immediate reaction? Positive, negative? Neither?
All comments greatly welcomed….I am open to new suggestions [...]

I don’t follow many people on Twitter, the ones that I do are a crossover of personal interests, friends, colleagues and organisations that are of interest to me and my clients – a strange mix indeed! I tend to do a lot of listening on Twitter as I am fascinated to see how people [...]

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