It’s a sign of the success of a charity, community group or small business when it can outlive its founder members. An organisation has reached its coming-of-age, when the vision of the people who set it up is so embedded, it can thrive and survive without them.
Continue reading “Review: Starting Up & Scaling Up A Human-First Business”Tune-up your business at Google’s Digital Garage
I am delighted to be team lead at Google’s Digital Garage in the Library of Birmingham, which offers free digital tune-ups to small businesses. Continue reading “Tune-up your business at Google’s Digital Garage”
Fancy a one-to-one with Google?
Yay! Two of my favourite things came together today – Google and the Library of Birmingham.
Google launched its Digital Garage in our beautiful library today. It’s aim is to help small businesses in Birmingham grow through their use of the web.
So if you fancy a one-to-one session with a Google “technician”, you can step into a pod and have a chat about your digital issue . Continue reading “Fancy a one-to-one with Google?”
Children are the best clients
Looking back over my work in the past five years, there are two projects that stand out as the most enjoyable. The jobs that have made me happiest have been designing the content for: Continue reading “Children are the best clients”
Work-life integration – the new work-life balance (darling)
The good news for those who’ve struggled to strike a work-life balance is that you’re let off. Work-life balance is so turn-of-the-millennium (darling). Work-life integration is the must-have of the teeny decade. Continue reading “Work-life integration – the new work-life balance (darling)”
Work-life balance? That’s the least of it.
I get heartily sick of the challenge of raising a family being characterised in terms of work-life balance.
Who thought of that phrase? Continue reading “Work-life balance? That’s the least of it.”
New business card
At last, I can reveal I have a new business card….
It’s not wonky in real life – that’s down to the photographer’s skill and creativity. Continue reading “New business card”
I hate public relations (PR)
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t hate the public relations industry and I certainly don’t hate people who work in it. Some of my best friends…..(Jayne Howarth, Ros Dodd etc). Unlike some journalists I actually feel grateful to good PR firms. Let’s be honest, in recent years working on a newspaper would have been far harder without them. Continue reading “I hate public relations (PR)”
I love my new boss
I love my new boss. I like her ideals, her approach to life, her attitude to business. They echo my own.
I know she has my best interests at heart – as I do hers. It’s not uncommon, even in the best of organisations, to feel a degree of ambivalence towards your employers. You are prepared to work hard and put yourself out, but, quite rightly, there are limits as to how far you will go on their behalf. Continue reading “I love my new boss”