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Goodbye 2009 - Here's what I liked

OUNDLE — There’s always some good that comes every year.  I get great pleasure out of those little celebrated innovations.  Here are a few of my favourite from this past year.

 

The end of tinned food [...]

Google Wave and MS OneNote: Re-program my brain

LONDON — There seems to be quite a bit of excitement out there about Google Wave.  Here’s a blog I was sent to earlier today.  Look how many comments there are in a few hours.

There’s a lovely short video here too that will show you what Google Wave is all about.

To me it looks quite [...]

Internal Comms: Top-down versus bottom up

LONDON — As part of the course that I am have been asked to give in Kuala Lumpur later this month, one of the participants sent in this question:

Q: Will you be covering the topic on top-down and down-up internal communications?

In responding to the question I realised that the answer may have a more generalist interest.  [...]

Breaking the rules to make things work

AL DUOMO, FIRENZE — I know how I feel about graffiti on historic monuments.  I don’t like it.  There is no value in defacing ancient monuments, like Lord Byron famously did at The Temple of Poseidon in Greece.

But as I stumbled, puffin down the 463 steps from the top of the cathedral in Florence this afternoon, [...]

New channels of communication delivery

When the wind of change whistles into play
will I blink or flinch away?
The wind of change wont whistle me away
if I spin my tails and sail.
And sail away, let yesterday become today.

CIRCLE LINE — I recognise that I am not the right demographic for the Brummie, bedsit, white rapper The Streets.  But I have just [...]