Monday, 29 October 2012

Social media to the rescue, post-apocalyptic Olympic Park an

Social media to the rescue, post-apocalyptic Olympic Park an: I got stuck on another website I�m creating this week, when I needed to resize a whole batch of photos and I didn�t have a clue where to start. Hooray for Twitter!! I posted a tweet asking for help and within minutes a lovely guy named Elliott replied with a suggestion of how to go about it.

Monday, 22 October 2012

Captain Kirk, linguistics and creating backlinks for SEO

Captain Kirk, linguistics and creating backlinks for SEO: Many of you who are my friends or fans on Facebook will know that I spent yesterday at the international Star Trek convention. If you�re not a geek, please don't switch off!! It's not all Klingons and alien kisses. The highlight of my day was a conversation with Sir Patrick Stewart

Monday, 15 October 2012

Networking through LinkedIn, going underground and designer

Networking through LinkedIn, going underground and designer: A man I'd never met before came up to me: "Didn't I see you in that film...?"  No, I don't think he did, but it made for an interesting start to another morning of networking in the glamorous and tempting Grosvenor Casino. Tom, an actor and presentation skills coach, invited me to join him afterwards for coffee.

Monday, 8 October 2012

Facebook fundraising, mail order cakes and being out of Twit

Facebook fundraising, mail order cakes and being out of Twit: I took a rare afternoon off this week, to visit beautiful Canterbury Cathedral. What a treat the whole city was � ancient, cobbledy alleyways boxed in by an eclectic array of fantastic architecture dating from Tudor to modern; almost every other building housing a tea shop.

Monday, 1 October 2012

E-book publishing, Mai Tais in Park Lane and business meetin

E-book publishing, Mai Tais in Park Lane and business meetin: It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. Not Dickens, I’m talking about last Tuesday. In fact, it was nowhere near the worst of times – it was lovely, it was just way too early. I woke up at 4.30 – still the middle of the night as far as I’m concerned – and was out of the house, on and off two trains and in Upper Woburn Stre