Archive | August, 2010

Privacy settings for Facebook places. Where are you?

I may be missing something here but it seems to me like Facebook places is ignoring my privacy settings. I have my settings explicitly set so that only one person can see where I check in. Yet when I checked in today I received a comment on my check in from a completely different person. [...]

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Goodbye clients, hello focus.

I’ve been freelancing for years outside my normal work hours. I enjoy it as it can break the monotony of “work”, provide a little extra cash and help build contacts. For about a year or so I’ve been trying to scale back, but as the offers come in I keep telling myself that it’s just [...]

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Sharing is caring

This video shared recently by Natali Carrera is amazing, it stopped me dead in my tracks. I’ve watched it three times so far. It’s tells us it’s ok to be alone sometimes, to embrace it, to enjoy the silence. We all benefit when great work breaks through the noise. As you try keep up with  the [...]

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Know your limits – Buskers and business ideas

I’ve been spending a few days in San Francisco with the family on a short vacation. We’ve been doing all the tourist stuff with the kids. Today the culmination of the day was a cable car ride from fisherman’s wharf back to union square. I was stood in line holding our places when the busker [...]

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Trust and influence in social media

There’s been a lot of talk recently about influence. Recently Fast Company’s Influence Project sparked massive amounts of debate on the subject of influence. Trust is key to influence Trust comes with rules, predefined levels of acceptance that will change the relationship if either party breaks the rules. If that trust is broken it’s very [...]

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