@robgreenseo (via @Jmy211) just posted this link on twitter. It’s a Daily mail headline generator, and it’s quite frankly hilarious. Clicking through I got some classic headline examples, such as;
IS THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT IMPREGNATING THE ROYAL FAMILY?
and
ARE PAEDOPHILES MOLESTING DRIVERS?
While giggling away to myself and wondering just how many hours I was going to end up wasting on… Read More...
Anyone who has ever read any productivity books knows the phrase “Sharpen your saw”. Off the top of my head I can’t remember who it was who first coined the phrase (Franklin Covey?) but for those who, unlike me, haven’t read every productivity book ever thrown at them, the phrase refers to taking time to yourself to keep your mind sharp. This is something I feel very strongly about, and… Read More...
As a user of Smartphones from the very earliest days, I’m currently feeling pretty low. My trusty HTC Touch HD has broken (Touchscreen completely stopped working after a small blob appeared in top corner), and I’ve had to send it back. For the next 28 days I have the Joy of using a Nokia 6120 , which seems almost as 2008 as RSS (well actually it feels more 1998, but… Read More...
Wherever I’ve worked I’ve always been the excel guru who everybody would come to when they had an excel problem. I’m quite at ease with VBA code, pivot tables and multiline formulas, but oddly enough I’ve never really been that good at graphs, and typically I’d beeline towards my comfort zone of pie, column and line charts. I decided that I’d correct this weakness earlier this month, and thought it… Read More...
If you are going to run a successful social media campaign, for a real life client, there are some things you are going to have to come to terms with. Depending on your current state of mind this may involve you growing a pair.
Firstly, the last thing you want to say to a client looking to do social… Read More...
Do you ever have the reaction, when the internet goes down at work, where you start thinking
“oh as I can’t do any work right now I’ll just check on that eBay auction. Oops can’t the internet’s down, OK I’ll check my email…”
and on and on it goes, until you remember that your PC has solitaire.
Well that’s how I have felt all afternoon with twitter… Read More...
Last week at Northern SEM (which I will review soon I promise) the subject of blocking people on twitter came up, with some expressing confusion that I did this. I’ve been blocking spam twitter users for quite a while now, after seeing @pageoneresults (I haven’t linked him because then he gets spammers following him and I hear he doesn’t like that) doing it, and thinking it was really a great… Read More...