The leadership team I am a member of at work are having an interesting conversation about Work-Life balance, and how we open up that conversation with the 30 plus people in the wider team. We are focusing on personal choice, and building a culture where team members can do what is right for them.
I was reminded of this quote from David Allen:
Microsoft AdCenter has been working hard to pick up the pace, looks like the industry is starting to notice!
Interesting article over at Web Worker Daily – I think my Dunbar number is low, probably about 100/120. Keeping track of all these relationships is difficult – but if you look around, the tools are out there to help you.
For example – Steve Clayton showed me a tool called Terraminds, which allows you to search exclusively inside the Twitter eco-system, I’ve been experimenting to find out whether people are twittering about me, or AdCenter or the competition – it means that I don’t have to follow these people on twitter, I can just look at the whole eco-system at once.
This really adds to one of the reasons I suggested you should be using Twitter, it’s a ‘pull’ environment which is less intrusive than mail and IM – so people are using it to capture digital ephemera and thoughts.
I’m convinced this is where all the fast moving conversations are happening on the web. Try terraminds with some search terms and you’ll see the buzz happening.
If you are not using Twitter yet, then maybe now is time to take a look at the application that seems to continue to cause quite a buzz on the web. Twitter is classed as a micro-blogging application, effectively tracking the small pieces of information that previously might fly point-to-point on IM or be posted as a short blog entry. If you are using Facebook – then its like the ‘so-and-so is…’ feature, on steroids.
So – why should you be using Twitter – here are five of my top reasons:
Steve Claytons post on Twitter has some really interesting debate on how Twitter is becoming more and more mainstream, and eventually may become the new facebook. I’m looking forward to seeing what else Steve has to say on Twitter – and if he needs anyone inside Microsoft to bounce ideas off – I’m two floors down from him!
So – my suggestion is that you get over to Twitter, sign up and then add me to your list – I’d love to hear what’s going on.
Family problems and work have kept me a little quiet, I need to catch up – so much to talk about, great music on the go all the time. Working a lot in Liverpool at the moment, opening a new call center and really enjoying visiting this cool town. Will be here all week, last night had dinner at the Heart & Soul Restaurant - excellent food in a nice setting.
delivered in a corporate cup, end of day 1 in Beijing…the offices are really cool, full of clearly very talented people. Japanese lunch, Udon Noodles with Chicken…now dinner time – this trip has been one long meal!
So here I am (finally) in South Korea – the trip was pretty arduous – nearly 12 hours on BA to Hong Kong, then 3 hours from Hong Kong to Seoul, and to top it all off – a one hour plus bus ride from the airport to the hotel. That said, the hotel is pretty darn good…we all got upgraded and have nice big rooms on the 24th floor – which gives me a good view of Seoul. Some photos in my flickr stream below. Now I’m into meetings, learning all about the key search engines and portals in the amazing South Korea internet market.
Inspired by a post over at Lifehacker (which is great reading by the way) – I’ve written a quick guide to setting up run commands in the MSN Search Toolbar (which is free – and works excellently as a search tool for your PC – and Outlook). Check out the guide after the jump…
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That means I need to queue at the sandwich bar at work today…sniff.
I just decided that I needed to buy a plant for my desk – I thought about this earlier in the week and started to decide what to get, so I was interested to read this article today, which stereotypes things in your workspace.
Plants & Foliage – plants that are well-cared for indicates someone who plans to stay.
Now – I’m not convinced mine willl be well cared for – but I’ll try.
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