No More Big Events?
Yesterday Seth Godin rocked the boat with another post that many people disagree with: No More Big Events. This short post said that big events don’t work because they aren’t as good as “frequent cheap communication”. Scott McKain wrote a long response on why he disagreed which is worth a read. I don’t disagree with [...]
What The World Needs Now
This on the BBC is interesting. It’s a short clip of delegates at TED saying what they think ‘what the world needs now’ in 18 seconds. They all hinge on action. But my favourite is from Arianna Hugginton who said beautifully that ‘we need greater simplicity.’ I’m trying really hard to get a mission statement [...]
Creating A People-To-People Conference
One of the greatest challenges that we face is to deliver on our ideas. On Saturday I asked the question on Twitter, “When it comes to ideas, what’s important? Making them accessible? Uniting people to ideas? Making ideas happen? Having lots, or a few?” The resounding response was “making ideas happens”. The challenge that the [...]
Conversation About vs Conversation With
I wrote recently that Consider the worn-out ‘Social Media is a conversation‘ mantra. Yes, conversation is a part of Social Media, but not everyone wants to talk non-stop with you! Consistent conversation is a rare thing when compared to how much conversation is going on. Thinking that everyone will now post on your businesses’ Facebook Page is [...]
Are You A Builder Or A Bulldozer?
It’s easy to tear things down. I learnt as a young boy that there’s little effort and lots of joy to wrecking things. But building something takes time and hard work. It is easy to criticise and get the attention for being vocal. It’s hard to build behind the scenes, or deal with situations offline, rather than publicly point the finger.
Three Ways To Write Blog Posts
Being a preacher and a pastor, you get taught a valuable lesson when it comes to growing church by keeping your visitors and inspiring them to come back week after week. I think it applies to blogging too. You can write blog posts one of three ways: 1. Preach them full. Give everything you’ve got, [...]
Do You Believe In A Flat Social Media Earth?
One of the mantras of Social Media advocates (of which I’m one) is the flatenning effect. It’s what I noticed a year ago (and wrote about here) when I was able to speak directly to directors, CEOs, managers and decision makers without getting asked “And who are you?” by a secretary before being refused to [...]
People-To-People: A Few Thoughts
The above photo was a long time coming. That was last Friday when finally, after 9 months since we first attempted to meet, Farhan and I finally shook hands. It’s an interesting thing, this photo, and it ties together a few thoughts I’ve been having over the recent weeks on People-to-People which I’d like to [...]
