Trying to keep up with younger portfolio workers and one’s own children for that matter I welcome Saga’s recent free app which translates teenage slang into terms that I understand. It has the wonderful title of Wotever!
I particularly liked the ‘powerpuff presentation’ as I have had to sit through too many of those – “A [...]
We all have one. Many of us have more than one. This is your most effective way of delivering your brand every day. Are you making the most of it? Look at an article in Fast Company magazine that gives tips on now to maximise your band in this way. It certainly got me to [...]
Most portfolio workers are also digital natives and live and work in a digital world more than most. It is interesting therefore to get Richard Harper’s take on this topic. Richard is a principal researcher at Microsoft. Note in particular his view that future communication will rely more than ever on the written word.
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As Apple users – well, we both have Apple computers, iPads and iphones – we still do recognise that there really are other pieces of impressive kit out there and android devices are certainly making an impact recently. My attention was drawn to a US careers site that recently had a whole posting on the [...]
We always make the point that portfolio workers more than most people need to keep up with current trends in new technology so here we reproduce IBM’s recently released annual Five in Five list of innovations that the technology giant thinks will take off in the next five years. Are you ready for these and [...]
Can you wait? Well yes. But for the geeks amongst us it will be fun.
Peter Osborne has started a very interesting discussion on this topic on our linkedin portfolio careers group. He also has a fuller posting in which he discusses these 8 ‘lessons’ that he has learned. I was particularly interested as a couple of weeks ago I did a keynote speech specifically on portfolio careers for the [...]