08/11/2009

Ann and Kevin were the second couple I stayed with who I'd never met before. But most bizarrely, they, like Philip and Tania in SF were an Anglo-American couple. What are the chances? I land in two couple's lives randomly and unexpectedly and both the guys are English. And, I just realised as I was…

Some (actually many) years ago I was working as an Information Manager at the Audit Commission.  I became increasingly frustrated by the difficulty of joining up data across, the organisation.  There were loads of opportunities to add more value to what we were doing by taking data collected in different contexts and telling stories based…

I’m in Bude, Cornwall and perhaps unlike much of the rest of the UK, it’s very much still summer here.  When I poked my head out of the tent this morning, all I could see was mist and the sort of cloud that quickly gets burned off to reveal a glorious sun-shiney day.  Hurrah! Pass…

“I have too much to read – I can’t keep up” “E-mail has stopped being productive for me, but I don’t know what else to do” “Communication’s really bad around here, nobody knows what’s going on.” “Oh God, I didn’t know we had a project team working on that.” “Advertising just seems to have stopped…

These are the cafes that seem to be going on regularly in the UK.  Realistically I think I’m unlikely to get around to any before Christmas, so I’m looking at dates in the new year.  If you run one of these and I don’t know you well already, or if you’re doing one somewhere else,…