Making Better Business Decisions With Google Analytics
Google Analytics (GA) is the industry standard for getting data about your website. There are many other solutions, some of them in real time such as Clicky, (GA has a 1.5 hour delay) but GA is easy to set up and use and gives plenty of information to know more about your website and it’s...
5 Tools and Tactics to Supercharge Your Digital Productivity
Fast broadband, mobile technologies and social media have completed changed the way freelancers and small business owners work and communicate. We can (technically) work from any where with a laptop and wifi; we can collaborate with people on the other side of the world; we can use the web to create new incomes streams for...
Digital Marketing Refresher
This week I was asked to give a talk on digital marketing to a group of entrepreneurial young women in east London. All are participants on the Ladies Who L-Earn project started by social entrepreneur Asma Shah. Doing the prep for the talk had me thinking about digital marketing and the different avenues and forms...
Digital Adventures in Working Well
Last weekend, Alex and I travelled to a tiny community called Angsbaka in central Sweden to a conference/festival on living sustainably. I was there to give a talk on how digital is changing the way we work and also to give a workshop on my Working Well programme (which took place in a round strawbale...
What Information Overload?
This is a guest post by Harry Mylonadis, Creative Thinker at minimoko. Harry loves simplicity and spends his time solving problems and building brands. To read more of his thoughts you can visit his blog. I speak to a lot of people about simplicity, to the point that they have started calling me a simplicity...
Forget Inbox Zero. Become an Email Ninja
Email. What does the word conjure up in your mind? Best invention in the world? Overflowing inbox? 24/7 connectivity? Great way to communicate? Creator of stress? At a recent talk I gave about working better (video link), the topic of email overload reared its head and totally divided the audience. There were those that felt...
Can the Built Environment Benefit from the Social Web?
Last night I attended a networking group for marketing and communications folk in the built environment (thanks to Cany Ash from Ash Sakula for the invite!). Held at the Camden offices of the Mace Group (project managers for The Shard – you might have seen their brightly coloured logo on Andrew Marr’s Megacities this week),...
4 Digital Ways to Get Your Zen on at Work
This week I am reading a fantastic book called ‘Your Brain at Work‘. The author David Rock, spent three years talking to neuroscientists about how the brain functions and why we act and react the way we do at work. One of the insights from the book refers to our pre-frontal cortex – the part of...
Your Brain at Work (Interview with David Rock)
How I would have loved to attend the Wisdom 2.0 Conference last month. A three day event all about living with awareness and compassion in the digital age – it was slightly up my street : ) Finances and time did not lend themselves to a trip to Silicon Valley but thanks to the wonders...
It’s Time for a Twitter Spring Clean
Spring is on its way and with it, it’s time for a spring clean – both physically (I must get those windows done!) and professionally. If, like me, you have been on social media for a while, you may not have spent much time reviewing your social media profiles or analysing your friends and followers....
