Audio Engaging People - Audio Newsletter #02 The Killer opening line......There should be a killer opening line here but I am too bloody excited to add one so I'll just dive in with this:Tomorrow is #TAGtribe Jam with Sue Unerman, Ann Handley and Neville Hobson at the Social Partners in Hatton Garden.This event is Question Time meets Saturday Night Live with a side of Google Hangout that you can join for free here.We will be debating Content marketing and why everyone should be at it and also why they should not!Why you can win with conte
BLOG Just for the record... I have just have to write something today. I am on a train, it is ear split-tingly early and I was meant to be asleep. In fact I have an hour before I arrive and I really need a nap. However travel is energising, I am looking out the window at the country rushing by and my brain won't stop working. Part of it is that everyday this week I am doing a talk, they are all different settings but boy have I got lots to cover! I am really, really looking forward to them all, mostly they are around th
BLOG We don't care because we don't have to. It has taken 6 months of asking, arguing, chasing, tweeting, emailing and texting to get an answer the differs from "computer says no" from Talk Talk. The quick story is that after finally being out in touch with the CEO via a contact I was "heard". Then the problem was sorted in less than thirty minutes and by someone soooooo nice I want them to be Godmother to my next child. This is not really a "triumph" for me. I am not feeling smug and a winner. I am thinking why did it take so long to ge
BLOG Between stimulus and response there is a little bit called choice. Energy is low. Small things are completely energy zapping. Some days it seems like a game. I have long subscribed to the idea from Viktor Frankl that in he space between stimulus and response there is a little bit called choice. Indeed after reading Viktor and Primo Levi when ever I am stuck a tube train I think of how they travelled to the destination that gave them their stories to tell and feel imediatly choose to stop whining to myself. With the "choice" everything could go either way.
BLOG Going to meet Seth Godin Quite honestly I don't really know what is going on right now. I feel like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly via a very painful cocoon. Really 2012 was a very very steep learning curve. It was full of joy in many ways, the life lessons and business lessons I would not change one bit - even the agony will be worth the long term insight. So that is on the way out. Then on the way in is this... I open my email and need to pinch myself, FreeAgent have emailed me my plane tickets to Mesh 2013
BLOG Tell me why I don't like Mondays I have always loved Mondays but now I don't. In fact recently it has been the worse day of the week for me. Which is a pain in the arse. Tell me why I don't like Mondays? Or why don't they like me? As I work through being "the one with depression" if there is a day that I am going to crash it is Monday. It plays out like this. I spend time to plan the week, making an organised list in my beloved asana.com so I am ready to go. Then Monday wake up, walk #babybernie to nursery (which is almost t
BLOG The Dark Art of Toy Hacking - #Sharingeconomy I have recently been exposed to the dark art of Toy Hacking by the dudes at Exploring Senses. I am very uncomfortable with the whole thing, yet I can't wait to have them over for the next children's birthday party I accidentally have to organise. The end product rocks, it is creative and full of imagination but a part of me is just not comfortable with sawing up a teddy bear. I have always been way too sentimental about toys, I wanted to include every toy in everything. I fretted about the leg
Audio Audio Newsletter #01 Click the player to listen now: Other Ways to Listen to the Podcast: Subscribe in iTunes Download the Podcast Sorry to rant but nothing makes me scream more than people who have one chance meeting with someone big and then trade off it forever, (you know "I was in the Sun, Times, BBC, Songs of Praise") that is why this is the last time I’ll mention my podcast with Seth Godin. This is where I should say “listen to the podcast” but that is too obvious. What else is obvious is that we are we
BLOG It is like there is "no signal" getting through to the part of my brain that needs to hear about the positive things. I need to write this first line to actually know where to begin. I have been walking around trying to get started with work for ages and something keeps nagging my head. That thing is this. How yesterday I was completely wiped at the end, I had to stand up on the tube so I did not fall asleep. The day had gone REALLY well, I have so much to look forward to but I was still tired and also had a deep sinking feeling of regret. Yet I had nothing to regret. I was talking to someone at an event and
BLOG Nothing interesting in this email.... (Engaging People News) Listen to the audio version of this newsletter here 4 minutes #TAGtribe View it in your browser. (You can listen to the audio version of this newsletter here) Sorry to rant but nothing makes me scream more than people who have one chance meeting with someone big and then trade off it forever, (you know "I was in the Sun, Times, BBC, Songs of Praise") that is why this is the last time I’ll mention my podcast with Seth Godin. This is where I should say “listen to the podcast
