BLOG #globalsharingday - Final Cut Pro - House of Commons with Marks and Spencer's Our HUGE day rounded off at the House of Commons with a deliciously informal speaker session. We all crammed into one room and were treated to insights from a rapid fire line up. This picture here shows Mike Barry being interviewed. Who is Mike Barry? He is the very active Head of Sustainability for Marks and Spencer's, and solid supporter of our quest at The People Who Share. Quite frankly in the world of gigantic corporations that take longer to turn than an oil tanker in a ocean storm M&S ar
BLOG Sharing is the new rock ‘n’ roll Sharing is the new rock ‘n’ roll. We now share our cars, our jobs and even our homes with others. Ahead of a world event to commemorate the practice, Metro asks how it became a phenomenon.‘Share your sweets with your sister.’ ‘Share your presents with your friends.’ ‘Share your chips with me.’ We spend so much of our childhoods being ordered by our elders to share the things we hold dear that it is no surprise we react by doing exactly the opposite. By the time we reach adulthood, for many of
BLOG This is SUMA Agency in Buenos Aires (AKA Bernie HQ) This is the video of the agency I co-work in when I am in Buenos Aires Bienvenidos a SUMA from agenciasuma on Vimeo.
BLOG Going to see Seth Suddenly it all seemed to fit into place. I'd been feeling very crap, lacking focus and felt overwhelmed all week, actually all month, maybe even all year. My head hurt, my body hurt and I just blurred out most days. I'd slipped into everything slightly being someone else's fault, which even if it is someone else's fault is a crap place to operate from. I wondered how long I'd been walking around with people going "do you think he realises?" The strain must show in my face, I am always p
BLOG Join us in Spring 2013 in San Francisco for a global gathering and cultural immersion in the #sharingeconomy ecosystem and community. Join us in Spring 2013 in San Francisco for a global gathering and cultural immersion in the sharing economy ecosystem and community. mesh2013 brings together the instigators — entrepreneurs, designers, city planners, engineers, makers, artists, doers, dreamers, proto-typers and futurists — those actively building products, services, policies, and communities. We are experimenting relentlessly with new forms of access, openness, business models, delight delivery and enriching our world. It’s ti
BLOG I am loving the sharing.… Ok so I accidentally got involved in a tech start up and found my self sharing rather than selling. I have always been crap at selling, mainly because somewhere in there you only really want to meet people who are going to buy your product or service. Me? I love people, I love bringing people together at events and I love racing through streets in Soho talking very fast on my phone trying to pull everything off with no time, no budget and necking a double espresso from Flat White. I am stress
BLOG London Bloggers Meet Up - Blog or Tweet? I am terrified to write this post in case @lesanto reads it and calls me up. It is not really that he is scary - I bet he is a teddy bear with a cup of hot chocolate really. It is that I know I could do better. When you get a room full of London Bloggers together there is a cross section of people who are smart people. They may work in education, business or have a real job like like being a parent. There is a vibe I find infectious and love hearing about people's blogs, everyone says "oh I just
BLOG TEDx and Music So there we were half way through TEDx and it was all going well, then Marisa pops on stage and starts talking about music. I have recently been on a mission after discovering musomap via twitter, We needed something to pull together a section of Global Sharing Day and this was it. Funny what shows up when you need it. So Tessa Marchington sails on about how can connect with music and share music, then she mentions the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra which is conducted by Daniel Barenboim an Ar
BLOG Learning to share.... So there I was tweeting away and suddenly I'd fallen into building the sharing economy. Not single handedly of course - lots of faster, taller and smarter people with letters after their name started long before me. I was not looking for it, nor was I particularly mad about it. I joined Zip Car because I think owning a car that you drive once a week is nuts, I used Spotify and Love Film early on because the thought of buying CD's and DVD's and then buying furniture to keep them on was a pain in
BLOG Asana and Nimble I am loving being an early-ish adopter. I certainly was not first but I am hanging in there even though not everything is perfect yet. I could jump onto a suite of salesforce.com products that do all of this but I am loving Asana for projects and Nimble for CRM - really social CRM. The only thing that is lacking in both is a state of the art mobile app, they are coming, then they are coming and when they get here.... I spend a lot of time on the go at events and travelling, I work on tube
BLOG The Email Game - Be Smart, be connected but be in control I was sitting in a bar with my Bombay Sapphire and tonic when my good friend exclaimed (too proudly for my liking) "I get 100 work emails a day and another 60 to my personal emmail account." I was nothing short of devastated FOR THE LOVE OF A HIGHER BEING!!! What are you doing? When I probed they revealed "I get lots of email that comes is LinkedIn, Eventbrite, Meet Up, newsletters, offers. Unfortunately my dear engaging people the email game is not unusual, tempted as it is to start ranting a
BLOG Dell B2B Huddle @ Microsoft Mark and Simon listen intently at the B2B Huddle. My Social Media Week London got off to a brilliant start at this event hosted by Kerry Bridge and Neville Hobson. Ever since Microsoft brought Yammer I have started to glance a little more often in their direction. Then came Outlook.com, (something they could have done YEARS ago - easy for me to say from my armchair of course.) The day opened with a keynote from David Coplin, Microsoft's 'Search Evangelist' for here in the UK. I was about to
