January, 2010

I’m really enjoying Nicholas Bate’s recent set of posts on Brilliant At The Basics . It looks like we have 100 of these to look forward to but already there are some gems in the first 4. Okay I’ll admit the one above caught my eye because it has Google and Bing as verbs. Pleasantly ironic given the subject...

Ever wondered what it would be like to compare notes with Bill Gates? Well now you can! Yesterday he launched a website designed to share his thoughts on everything from his foundation work to musings on other topics including energy and the environment. Gates told CNET that he missed having the kind...

The topic of cloud computing is getting hotter by the day (unlike the weather). With it being released in the news yesterday that Gartner’s 2010 CIO survey has revealed the no. 1 technology priority as virtualisation, closely followed by cloud computing at no. 2, it is impossible to ignore the fact that...

I’ve been catching up on J.D. Meir’s blog lately and in particular his Sources of Insight blog – it houses some inspirational stuff for personal and career development. His recent post regarding What’s Your One-Liner Super Hero Power? is worth a read to help with your personal brand toolkit. When asked...

With snow disruptions set to cost the UK economy between £600m and £2bn, the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) estimates that about 10% of the UK's 30 million workforce have been unable to get to work. As someone who works closely with businesses across the UK, it’s interesting to see how the bad...