December 2008
63 posts
On the beach in Goa. Happy holidays!
Any Brighton & Hove peeps on Nike+ up for a new year challenge? I need the help (See previous tweets) http://is.gd/dcp6
Just set my out of office responder - back on the 8th. Feels good to do that. Need this holiday big time. India here I come!
Went for a run and had my arse pinched by a girl! It was clearly a dare so I must have been wobbling. This is not good.
A List Apart: Articles: Getting Real About Agile... →
Time, research, and ideation have historically been designersâ comfort zones. They suit our natural aptitude for vision and intuition, and allow us to carefully synthesize nebulous things like…
Just updated The Building Blocks of Social Media Strategy - now less academic and easier to understand http://is.gd/cZ0p - feedback welcome
Apple say MacBooks are the greenest notepads http://is.gd/8U54 but don’t talk about upgradability which would make more difference
Kick-started my podcast on Huffduffer.com with a tasty Sasha DJ mix http://huffduffer.com/tomnixon
So I’m off to SXSW next year. Any good holiday suggestions for immediately afterwards while I’m in the US?
Blogging: An open letter to The Atheist Bus Campaign http://tinyurl.com/7vhy62
Just realised that the 5 books I thought I ordered for holiday reading from Amazon are still in the shopping basket, unpurchased. DOH!
Why workplace incentives don't work - alfie kohn →
The POST Method: A systematic approach to social... →
An open letter to The Atheist Bus Campaign →
After seeing Robert’s tweet I just posted the following as a comment on the Athiest Bus Campaign blog. Please leave your own comment if you agree. I hope it’s not too late.As a fellow humanist, I’m a…
That’s me entered into the Frosty Aquathlon (32 lengths swim then 10k run) in March. Better start training! http://is.gd/cUZv
Watching the crowds build up on the seafront for the burning of the clocks
No matter how many times I listen to it, I just don’t get bored of Scroobius Pip - Letter from God to Man. http://is.gd/cuQC
Off to lunch with the good folk from Revolution Magazine on their social media tour of Brighton
The building blocks of social media strategy: http://tinyurl.com/4xmykg
RT: @timaldiss: Yup that’s an axe through a jewellers window in the centre of Brighton at midday on Thursday! http://snipurl.com/8tfdp
writing a plan for a year’s worth of social media goodness
Do any brightoners know where I can get immunisations for a trip to India? Ideallya walk-in clinic (don’t have a GP at the moment)
Reading a blog post about Twitter. Loving that the AdSense ads are all for ‘whale watching’; ‘national geographic whale videos.’ etc :)
A handy ‘state of the nation’ on virtual worlds http://tinyurl.com/5ugrop
Damn, all that’s left in the tin of Cadbury’s Roses is 3 toffee pennies :(
why did i have to discover the most addictive game ever at bedtime? http://tinyurl.com/67wouf
Blogging: Reward systems do not improve the quality of work http://tinyurl.com/6zswxb
Reward systems do not improve the quality of work →
I saw this tweet from The Chief Happiness Officer and was immediately intrigued:“Not a single controlled study has shown a
long-term improvement in the quality of work as a result of any…
Top stuff from @umairh (again!) How to build better economy http://discussionleader.hbsp.com/haque/2008/12/four.html
Time to retire the George Clooney profile pic. Have proved my point. He’s better looking than me.
Changed my profile pic for the benefit of TwitOrFit. Come on Clooney, don’t let me down!!
Thanks for the replies @steve_e @_naz @mtheodoulou @jedhallam. Anyone else interested in collaborating on a strategic model of social media?
Been working on a strategic model of social media. Will be creative commons, anyone up for collaborating?
Had a good run round Hyde Park. Enjoying new surroundings. Now pub roast
Retweeting @louash: I am published! latest @nixonmcinnes ebook is ‘ere http://tinyurl.com/5t52nf - Usability & Social Media
Feeling surprisingly chipper. First in the office wondering what time the rest of the gang will slope in :)
Just need a bacon roll then I’ll be ready for the board meeting.
Retweeting @geminiupstairs: http://twitpic.com/s51p - ….and we’re open! <—- congrats guys, looking forward to checking it out
I’d like to say I’m not thrilled to have beaten the entire @NixonMcInnes team at bowling BUT I AM! HAHAHAHA gracious winner.
feeling very satisfied with my secret santa offering for one of the @nixonmcinnes team
really gutted that people are dropping ike flies with the flu on our office xmas party day :(
My RSS reader just hit 3,000 unread items. Is that normal or ridiculous?
Retweeting @ZeeDotMe: Twilert, like Google Alerts except for Twitter http://is.gd/aYUy
No time to go to Indian embassy to get visa so paying an agency with the worst website EVER to do it for me. will prob take just as long grr
Retweeting @davidcushman: #socialmediais I’d like to create a tag cloud of your one word descriptions of social media please share
Following a load of interesting people found using @mrtweet
Yay, got the go-ahead from a premiership football club to help them with social media. Loads of scope for goodness there.
Watching @mbites incredible raw chicken handling skills on the excellent Techfluff.TV http://techfluff.tv/
Great to have @daniellesheerin back after maternity leave, and using Twitter. She’ll learn to love it.
Decided to enter The Frosty next year. Anyone else up for it? http://tinyurl.com/6jqsog