If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!It’s not so long ago that when I attended a business function or other occasion and LinkedIn was mentioned, business people present would make it clear that that was at best a boring topic of conversation. There has been a…
I’ve lost count of the number of times when, learning that I am a LinkedIn specialist, people say “I’ve been really slack about LinkedIn”, or “I’m on LinkedIn but I don’t quite get it”, or “I really must do something about LinkedIn”. Cue my new program, Linked Intensive, a 14 day program which, as I…
Email overload is no joke I understand email overload and if I were better organised I would probably unsubscribe from more lists than I actually do. Or maybe it’s that feeling of not wanting to risk missing out! But as I’m not opening a lot of those emails that’s not really a convincing reason for not…
We’ve seen the tv ads with cars that park themselves; we’ve got used to a voice in the car telling us which turn to take next; maybe we have heard about the Google Glass phenomenon. So we know that the world is changing rapidly from what we knew. And we know our lives are changing…
We use the word “success” a lot. We say someone is a successful entrepreneur, someone has had a successful career in the law, or medicine, or in sport. Some years ago I started to think seriously about this topic of success, and I began to understand how much our concepts of success can come from…
Do you have more than one LinkedIn account? Every now and again I am surprised by a request to connect on LinkedIn with someone I had thought was already a connection. Sometimes it is the case that we were not previously connected. But sometimes it’s because they have more than one account. Some have more…