Rock Chick Entrepreneur
Success. In our society we hear a lot about success. Successful people, successful companies, successful projects, success strategies, methodologies, formulas. But what exactly is success? According to webwords: ~ Success: An event that accomplishes its intended purpose. ~ Accomplish: Cause to happen; complete successfully – achieve. ~ … [Read more...]
Ok first of all, I’m a girl geek. This post could terrify you if you are not an iPhone mad Twitter addict and I just want to say now that you do not have to go to these extremes in order to Tweet productively & efficiently. However, if you are as geeky as I am, love iPhone, and effective Twittering is an important (and official) part of … [Read more...]
I’ve always been freakishly tenacious and it irks me when I decide that I want to do something well and I find I’m not able to. When I was three and a half years old in the days of roller-disco, my parents took me to a place called the Agora in Milton Keynes. It was a popular local pub with a bar area overlooking a roller skating rink. … [Read more...]
I am a natural born ranter and I come from a long line of ranters (father side). While ranting is a key business and interpersonal skill, it can be a tricky one to master. This blog will hopefully give you a few pointers to get you started: 1) Choosing the right rant topic Decide on a subject that you feel really passionate, angry or … [Read more...]
… lovely SPAM, wonderful SPAM Everyone experiences spam issues and it is the bane of those of us in the technology industry field to manage it. While there are ways of successfully controlling spam, it is typical for an influx of spam to occur periodically, when the spam senders find ways to ‘trick’ the spam filtering methods used … [Read more...]
In a recent interview with Jonathan Fildes of the BBC, Biz Stone Co-Founder of microblogging service Twitter suggests that that we can finally expect to see an attempt by the company to earn some revenue from the currently free service. Almost entirely funded by venture capital investments, the Social Networking giant secured an additional … [Read more...]
I got my iPhone six months ago. Finally succumbing to peer pressure I reluctantly walked into the O2 shop – feeling guilty every step of the way. Until then I declined to buy in, mainly due to my naturally rebellious streak refusing to be a sheep and follow the trends and at the same time making a one woman protest against Apple’s DRM … [Read more...]
The first thing I do when I wake up in the morning is reach out bleary eyed for the iPhone on my bedside. The second thing I do is hit the Twitter app icon, and click on ‘trends’. There is no better way to re-engage your brain with wakefulness than looking at random words on a list and trying to figure out if something significant has … [Read more...]
A few years ago I had a client, she was the assistant of a high flying executive who had ‘earned the right’ by his side, close to his ears and as a trusted advisor. We were having a conversation a while back and in a moment of confidence, she shared with me that she never really understood how she had managed to reach this position of … [Read more...]
There was a time in my life when I felt a bit like C3PO from Star Wars. Having spent 7 years being the non-technical partner in a technology company I evolved by a process of osmosis, from a ‘frustrated computer user’ to a fully-fledged badge wearing geek. Guilty by association, the clients expected me to be technical enough to … [Read more...]
