Archive for September, 2008

Yearbook yourself

29, Sep 2008

Here are two sites we liked this week, both of which are excellent examples of our favourite less is more approach.

Enjoy…

http://yearbookyourself.com: An old friend posted pictures from school days on Facebook. As someone who goes through periodic urges to throw away anything not bolted down, I don’t have any school pictures of my own [...]

The wisdom of crowds

19, Sep 2008

At the CIPD conference in Harrogate this week, there was a lot of talk around social media; it seems everybody has heard of Facebook, but the majority of people have very little understanding about how to harness its potential (or the potential of any other site, for that matter).One of the most interesting features of [...]

Is all creativity theft?

18, Sep 2008

I was at the 2008 Annual CIPD conference, and attended the TMP exhibition presentation on “Communicate Your Recruitment Message Direct to Your Candidate Audience and Begin the Employer Brand Journey” (always good to do some competitor research, n’est ce pas?
Anyway, after some opening thoughts, the UK CEO Andrew Wilkinson, presented some thoughts “his team had [...]

Thought leadership: the world is flat

15, Sep 2008

The next couple of weeks sees a stream of presentations, seminars and thoughtpieces being published. I thought to attach the output of the first of many: http://www.blueskiescareers.co.uk/blog/2008/09/who-owns-the-big-idea/

In a truly collaborate/web2.0 approach, I posted the initial brief to LinkedIn to see what sort of answers or interest would be generated: with over twenty replies, this tool [...]

Hello Jonny. I’m baaaack

5, Sep 2008

As its Friday, I’ve got a couple more sites for you, both courtesy of Google. I’ve chosen Google rather than any other source as it is often a good indicator of how far the mainstream commercial or consumer marketplace has come. The two ideas that are not new. It is just interesting to see that [...]


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