November 2007
81 posts
for such a popular website it’s shocking how bad the usability is on thetrainline.com
catching up with emails from home, then meeting board to discuss 08/09 budget, then off to Cheltenham for a wedding
Giving the gift of clean water this Christmas →
Some of my clever colleagues at Nixon McInnes created this widget to help a good friend of ours to raise money to build clean water filters in Central America. The money is going 100% direct to the good cause - he’s using the money to buy the bags of cement himself. You can grab the widget for your own blog from here Thanks for helping!
Clean water →
Popping in to OpenJuice http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/324280/ for a bit then heading into the office.
links for 2007-11-28 →
Marketing to teenagers in online virtual world Habbo Hotel @ Nixon McInnes: Social media goodness. Translated. Created. Delivered. Write-up of my visit to Habbo Hotel in London (tags: habbohotel virtualworld marketing teenagers)
Marketing to teenagers in online virtual world... →
Write-up of my visit to Habbo Hotel in London
links for 2007-11-28 →
Marketing to teenagers in online virtual world Habbo Hotel @ Nixon McInnes: Social media goodness. Translated. Created. Delivered. Write-up of my visit to Habbo Hotel in London (tags: habbohotel virtualworld marketing teenagers)
Back home after a day of interesting meetings. Social Media Goodness a-plenty.
Plotting the revolution of the publishing industry. Umair Haque would approve.
Just waked past michael portillo on the strand. Was going to remind him about the ‘97 enfield southgate election
Been talking about widgets and facebook apps with mindshare
heading into london for a busy day seeing clients and partners
In the real life habbo hotel office. Some interesting opportunities for brands. Will blog about it soon
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New media Jobs at digital agency Nixon McInnes (tags: nixonmcinnes jobs newmedia webdesign brighton)
links for 2007-11-27 →
New media Jobs at digital agency Nixon McInnes (tags: nixonmcinnes jobs newmedia webdesign brighton)
New media Jobs at digital agency Nixon McInnes →
In the office for most of the day, popping out for a quick meeting with spannerworks in the morning and Telmo’s 6-weekly one2one this arvo.
In london on wednesday - ping me if you’d like to meet up.
This week’s priority: production director hiring http://tinyurl.com/2yq9la Closing date is now 1 Dec.
off to the gym for a quick interval training fix to work off the weekend’s food and beer excesses
On the train to london reading douglas coupland’s JPOD
looking forward to seeing my family for lunch and a get together with some friends i haven’t seen for years later on
welcome to @slipmatt nice to have you on twitter mr matheson
@carlsonator you can borrow my iPod if you need some tunes
@willmcinnes use the Grab utility in the Applications folder
cheers to @willmcinnes for pointing us to @swearalotdotcom - that has made my morning. think we’ve found our intellectual level.
Interval training: the most painful thing you can do in twenty minutes that’s actually good for you
looking forward to our team meeting this arvo
in the office all day today
desperately need a good freelance PHP coder to start on a short project this week and also a full-time front-end coder. any ideas?
heading home via Taj to pick up some nice food.
Doing some stuff from home then working on our People Budget with Pete Burden - factoring in all of these new hires.
In london for NMK social media event to see @willmcinnes speak and do some networking
Headin’ home
Listening to wicked fabric podcast while slurping on winter warming soup at strength cafe on st james’ st.
Personality in leadership →
Steve Roesler has an excellent example of how leaders should be using authenticity and personality. Whether it’s a marketing/PR message, or an announcement to your people, it’s not enough to just give the facts. Humans are emotional as well as rational creatures and so we have to give credence to both.
Never seen water as cloudy as it is in the LA fitness pool this morning. Dread to think what’s caused that.
Today: Swim; walk dog; business development; jen’s annual review; developing people side of biz; NMK event.
welcomes @louash. is the whole company on twitter now? can’t be far off.
Must. Stop. Blogging. Go. To. Bed.
Hiring a director in a democratic company →
I’m still trying to figure out which blog posts I should write on our company blog and which ones should go here. So for now, here’s a cross-post which is relevant to both - the process we’re following to recruit a new director.
links for 2007-11-19 →
The Open Rights Group : Blog Archive » Open Rights Group: Our first two years (tags: digital democracy) Amazon: Reinventing the Book | Newsweek.com (tags: books digital) Random House - Widgets and Web Services Done Right (tags: widget publishing randomhouse) Snackbyte: A view of the ecosystem (tags: socialmedia)
thinking of leaving my laptop charger in the office so I can only spend one battery’s worth of time on a computer in the evening
Happy belated birthday, RageBoy →
I just noticed that RageBoy (aka Christopher Locke), co-author of one of the most influential books I’ve read since I started my business turned 60 a week ago today, the same day I turned 30. Happy birthday RB, hope you had a good one, and thanks for the inspiration you nutter :)
Snackbyte: A view of the ecosystem →
Random House - Widgets and Web Services Done Right →
Amazon: Reinventing the Book | Newsweek.com →
Personality in PR →
Here are two statements from corporate PR spokespeople that I’ve seen recently. The first is from 123-Reg about the downtime that their service suffered from over the weekend:123-reg experienced intermittent performance issues on its DNS servers
between late afternoon on Friday 16 November and Sunday 18 November.
This meant that some customers have encountered difficulties with their
domain...
The Open Rights Group : Blog Archive » Open Rights... →