If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!When I accepted the invitation to keynote the Hillross Annual Conference 2012 in Canberra, Australia, focusing on practical strategies for social media, I was pretty sure that one of my main challenges would be finding examples of successful engagement via…
This morning I updated my free downloadable guide, 5 Simple Steps for Getting Started on LinkedIn. The biggest challenge of the updating process was restricting myself to the basics of getting started. There is so much more to LinkedIn than is in this brief guide but I am convinced that those of us who have…
I make no claim to be good, let alone excellent, at blog design or the more general field of web design. And I have great respect for good and great designers. But what I know is that, as a business owner, the design of my blog or other web site is my responsibility and not…
Coaches and trainers need to recognize that not everyone will respond positively to the prospect of change and some will resist. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” is a well worn phrase. And useful in its place. But there are times when, even though something might not be broken, it might have passed its…
When I left my first job after six months I was told I was making a mistake My first real job out of high school was in the head office of one of Australia’s leading life insurance companies, the Mutual Life and Citizens’ Assurance company or MLC, founded in 1886 as the Citizens’ Assurance Company….
I keep telling myself I won’t do it again, but there I was yesterday, having another fundamentally frustrating conversation about social media with a Baby Boomer business owner who did not really want to listen. It started with his making a polite enquiry about what I “did” by way of business and – once I…