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 [...]
Having written a piece on digital identity recently ( will post in next few days) got me thinking about how most of us don’t worry too much about what people know about us via the web. The thinking goes – if you don’t have anything to hide then its not a problem. But I came [...]
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 [...]
Our friend Peter Osborne who comments regularly on our Linkedin portfolio careers group has put together what he calls his personal blog roll as to what he has found useful as a freelancer and portfolio worker. An eclectic list of blogs and books that you would find useful to peruse. You will see many names [...]
Another classic from our friend Hugh MacLeod!
That is the enticing invitation that I received this morning from the people at Hubspot. You can download it as a PDF or listen to the interviews. A lot of redundancy but some very good tips. You will recognise many of the 60 contributors as they contain most of the really successful bloggers.
Excellent article which summarises what is known about Twitter use. It certainly confirms my limited experience – limited because I make little use of it. All my postings are tweeted and that is about it for me. There are now 190 million Twitter users around the world producing 65 million tweets each day. 19% of [...]
Gosh thats not easy to say! Brilliant new app( big nod to Geek in Disguise). This will save you time, effort, money and probably help world peace. Well maybe not the world peace bit but I have been doing a bit of pruning lately of who I am connected to in my social networks. This [...]
A New York Times article highlights the fact that 98% of twitter users are within 6 degrees of separation from one another and the average number of degrees between users is only 4.67. Just as everyone in the world is thought to be connected to one another within six steps (and the movie star [...]
