Archive for the 'Efficient' Category

NetTuesday Help’s Londoners Find Their Blogging Voice

Net Tuesday, November, stirring the Non-Profit Tech Community in London

Amy Sample Ward, the new Community Builder at NetSquared, which is a community for non-profit techies (and also a project of TechSoup Global), came to London, in September 2008. With her experience, and background, in supporting and nurturing the non-profit tech community in the US, she […]

Summary of Benefits of Wordpress

I’m going to be part of the team advocating WordPress tonight, as a blogging platform of choice,  and pulled together some brief notes on what makes WordPress so great.
Would love to hear your thoughts, on why you prefer WordPress over other blogging platforms, and also, a link to your WP blog, would be appreciated.
If you happen […]

Crowdsourced Obama to Win US Election! - Internet Predictions…

So, the US presidential elections are a hot topic, no doubt.. It seems I couldn’t avoid them, thanks to my colleage at work, who streamed the debates, and news from the US elections, into the office, each and every day!! Thanks Greg :)  As much as I wanted nothing better than to ignore it, like […]

Personal Development for Smart People Weaving into a New Dream for the Modern World

So, I’ve recently been reading Personal Development for Smart People, being an avid follower of Steve Pavlina, and having just finished the book.. I’ve found myself having experienced a real roller coaster of a ride.
Not least, because of how self-reflective the book is, and how it forces you to examine your life, from so many […]

LinkedIn grabs Huddle, as the first European startup to be integrated into OpenSocial Apps

LinkedIn has recently made the move from being just a network tool, to adding applications to the platform.  Much akin to the Applications, now a mainstay of the Facebook platform, and long seen as a way for developers to infiltrate the existing trust networks that exist on the inside of Online Social Networks, LinkedIn, has […]

Experiencing that recurrent pain of social networks..

Have you ever wanted to share something with a certain group of people you know??
Well, it seems, since my travels around Peru, in 2005, I’ve yet to find a perfect solution for this dilemma…  Back then, I was travelling around Peru, and wanted to share some of the more personal stories, with select groups of […]

Saving hundreds off the cost of daily disposable contact lenses…

Have you ever wondered how much it really costs to make a pair of daily disposable contact lenses??
I always thought that the high streets were charging a decent price for contact lenses.   That is until I discovered a website where I could buy two months supply for less than the cost of a months […]

The Importance of Child Labor

For some reason, I’ve always, from a young age, subscribed to the belief that it’s a bad thing when children have to work, and that it’s wrong, and that it should be stopped. What I failed to realise, is the importance of children starting work at a young age. I was just watching […]

The Secret to success in business - living from your purpose

This evening, I listened to DeMartini Speaking, in London.
He was talking about success in Business, and the key lesson that emerged from his talk, was this sense of purposefulness. How in order to succeed in life, you really need to make your passion your work, and how the only way in which you can […]

Life’s unexpected gifts

It seems that life is never as straight forward as you’d imagine…
Often, I’ve found myself making plans, getting ready to do something, and then something happens, unexpectedly…
Most times, I see that unexpected event, or occurence, and see it as a gift, as something to be grateful for… And usually, in retrospect, it really is […]