Elder Wisdom: Thriving on Hope in a Cynical World
Des is writing a book – and this continues on after his passing with the help of notes, recorded interviews and the help of colleagues and friend. More details coming soon.

Des is writing a book – and this continues on after his passing with the help of notes, recorded interviews and the help of colleagues and friend. More details coming soon.

Last week I had the pleasure and privilege of trying out a pair of smartglasses. These were the M100 product from Vuzix, the first commercially available smartglasses in the world. As the Vuzix website explains: The Vuzix M100 Smart Glasses is an Android-based wearable computer, enhanced with a wearable monocular display and computer, recording features…
My good intentions to post about the ad:tech conference here in Beijing this week have been dented by: the abundance of things to see and experience for someone who has never been to this part of the world before some challenges with internet access. And with only a day and a half to go and…
A wartime memory by Des Walsh I don’t think the Japanese would have bombed a dairy farm. That’s what I thought at the time, or what I think I thought. It’s hard to know, at this distance, what belongs to the four-year-old and what belongs to the old man looking back at him. But that…
The latest issue of Des Walsh’s Social Business Bites, a weekly newsletter with snippets and links pointing to curated articles and updates to help keep readers in the loop with changes and developments in social media for business.
It’s been a long day, finishing off the update of my 7 Step Business Blog e-book. So much has changed in the two years since that was written, but I believe there are still a lot of business people who want a straightforward, plain English introduction to business blogging. So I feel the exercise was…
My good friend Toby Bloomberg went along with an invitation to play along on an ‘old fashioned’ blog meme or blog hop. As Toby says in her post Why I Write – Blog Hop “Old Fashion” Meme, blog memes were popular before blogs were social media. Those were the days my friends etc. I’m not…