Category: digital
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Blunt
Email is such a blunt tool. According to Microsoft, 97% of all emails sent over the net are unwanted. Postini (a division of Google) puts it at 94%. Blunt. Value creation between people comes from conversing. Email is rubbish at conversation. Blunt. Value creation in business is increasingly about collaboration. Email is rubbish at collaboration.…
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Getting Wired
Day one of the UK edition of Wired. So I bought a copy. And to be honest it was pretty good. Highlights included Russell's column ("I'd like to suggest that multitasking and distraction aren't the enemy – they're what makes us human and creative – and…we should be building software tools that distract us more,…
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Mediocre Doesn’t Cut It Anymore
Some nice, succinct slides from Mike Arauz around 10 key digital principles which, sadly, are all too often missed. I'd like to add another, inspired by a thought from Hugh, that 'Boring is in a LOT of trouble'. The internet has made it exponentially easier to find stuff that really interests you. To secure a…
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The Optimist Conspectus
I don't know whether it's because the sun has been shining lately or whether it's a reaction to the almost celebratory zeal with which certain sections of the news media seem to be covering the current economic malaise, but I'm feeling the need to remind myself that whilst things are bad, in amongst it all…