I received an email late last night from a bloke called Luke Jackson, asking me very nicely if I would be interested in taking a look at his video. I did and I thought it was fairly awesome and so hence I've posted it here. Please take a look and if you, like me, think it's a great musical number then post it on.
With ever increasing levels of spam and bad blogger engagement, I want to push even harder for those that deserve a bit of buzz and those that engage properly. Luke is both.
It'd be great if you could send me a quick email letting me know if you're coming with your mobile number attached in case the location shifts at the last minute. What's more, I'll even give you my mobile number in return.
If I could get an idea of numbers then I can make sure that there's a place reserved for y'all so please don't be shy!
Let's show those north London types that the real social media revolution is taking place this side of the Thames.
As a follow-up to my earlier post Getting Things Done, I have made one of the notebooks from my Evernote account public. It's mainly diagrams and drawings that I've taken from Flickr but shows some elements of the text recognition systems at play and the embeddable widget design is very sweet.
Take a peek at the stuff below, I'll keep adding to the pile of notage. If you've got any questions please don't hesitate to drop them as comments below and I'll do my best to answer them or get answers from elsewhere.
There are and always have been a proliferation of social media events held in Shoreditch but rarely has Putney been recognised as the incubating chamber for many of the, albeit self-acclaimed, greatest minds in social media.
This is to be rectified by the creation of the first ever Putney Tweet-Up, to be held on one evening this July in one of the many beautiful pubs that exist in this neck of the woods.
With regards to attendees, I'm expecting to see the following:
Sadly, I'm struggling for people after that. Has anyone got any additional ideas? Throw your name in the hat if you're interested, Putney tourists are welcome.....
So at this stage I'm looking for:
Attendees
Venue Suggestions
Dates
If you have suggestions for any of these, drop me a line or leave a comment. As is fairly apparent, I need more than a little help!
Of late I’ve become interested in the ‘getting things done’ (GTD) movement, the largely web-based organisational cult led by ticklist prophet David Allen. Simply put, GTD is all about working and living more intelligently.
I’ve always been fairly well organised at work; my desk is replete with to-do-lists and 33 Digital is going through a Google Doc revolution at the moment but there are always gaps between systems.
If I’m not online or at my laptop, as at weekends or events, it’s tough to update my to-do-list doc and should I want to at a later stage it means I lose time transferring data between a hard copy and soft copy version of the same document.
What I’ve been looking for are resilient efficiency tools and strategies that don't take a lot of time investment to organise. I've found a couple of good'uns but I'm always on the look-out for more. Find my top three below:
1. Notepads - It had to factor in here, the lowest of lo-fi solutions but without doubt the most resilient. No battery or wi-fi issues and so portable that it fits in a jacket pocket without leaving an unslightly bulge.
2. Google Docs - At the core of all of 33's activities lies a beating Google Doc. We pro-actively started using them about three months ago and now tend to share client plans, to-do-lists and calendars using the platform. They're particularly useful for allowing remote working, which leads back to the resilience argument especially in light of the proposed tube strike this evening!
3. Evernote - Although it's a client of mine, it is absolutely fantastic. The technology acts a library for all digital content and enables you to store emails, tweets, screengrabs and images in one place, which is then accessible from your hard disk and over the web. The real bonus however is that it has text recognition software included meaning that it will tag any image with the text included within, which is beautifully useful. It is also mobile enabled, with apps in both the iPhone's AppStore and BB's AppWorld. A truly beautiful piece of technology but seeing is believing, check it out real people's experiences for yourselves here.
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