Prompted by lifehacker’s call for the best goal tracking app or service, I thought now was a good moment to share how I use Milestone Planner to track (and more importantly, achieve) my personal goals. In last year’s (still popular) blog post on “Making New Year’s Resolutions Stick” we shared some tips for putting New [...]
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Influenced by Measurement
A conversation at the recent Dell B2B event at Google’s UK HQ, and a subsequent blog post, have finally prompted me into writing down some of my thoughts around the current trend of scoring influence, and the related social metrics industry that is being birthed out of both the US and the UK. The question of [...]
Read 'Influenced by Measurement' >>Bridging on-line and off-line
Over the past year I’ve been fascinated by the way business interactions and processes weave their way in-between the on-line and off-line worlds. Digital has become the default format for the majority of business data as so much of our interaction and data creation now happens on-line (even if that is mostly via email). That said, it [...]
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I had the privilege of speaking at The Social Media Workplace conference in London today. A well organised, wonderfully targeted event, looking at how Social Software can build the Social Workplace. Lots of conversations about how’s and why’s, without getting tied up in knots arguing about definitions. Here is my talk, inspired by what we’ve learnt [...]
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It’s been a year since I gave this talk at Likeminds, so I thought it was about time I published my notes! Enjoy, ponder or comment. This is part I. I’ll sum up and add by 2011 thoughts in the very next post… You can watch the video right here. Image by kind permission of [...]
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