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Social media, smartphones, e-mail: they can all help take your career to the next level, or they can ensure you get utterly consumed by your work. Here are my best strategies, tools and stories to help you harness your online time to creating the work of your dreams — even if your dreams include sometimes leaving the office.

How to find a great domain name (or Twitter handle)

January 25, 2012

This post is part of a short series that addresses the top questions at Web Fuelled Business, a training program for thousands of companies across the UK run by Doug Richard’s School For Startups. I’ve developed the social media component for this training. One of the recurring questions at last week’s workshops was: Should my [...]

Web Fuelled Business masters the physical logistics of going virtual

January 20, 2012

The entrepreneurs who participated in the Web Fuelled Business program this week are pushing past the limits of physical location. They are bricks-and-mortar shops that are using the web to attract local customers who would never find them on the street; they are manufacturers and distributors who are using the Internet to enter the international [...]

Should my blog be on my web site or a separate site?

January 19, 2012

Social media can be a huge driver of traffic and revenue for a company with an effective web presence, but how do you actually go about setting up an effective site? That’s what many of the entrepreneurs at Web Fuelled Business asked this week, in one form or another. In the past three days, I [...]

Tailor your voice to each place you use social media

January 18, 2012

“I make leather armour.” That’s a sentence I never expected to hear in this lifetime. In fact, until about 4:30 yesterday afternoon, I didn’t know what leather armour was. I din’t know that leather armour existed. Leather armor, it turns out, is what you wear if you need to look like you just walked out [...]

Excel template: 7 steps to achieving your goals

January 6, 2012

Do you have trouble making good on your New Year’s resolutions? Do you have a hard time staying focused on your most important work? Do you simply get overwhelmed by all the tasks on your plate, and worry about how to get them all done? When I’m trying to stay on mission or on task, [...]

Delete your Klout profile and be more than a Klout score

December 12, 2011

7 steps to deleting your Klout score, following through on my Harvard Business Review blog post, “The Social Sanity Manifesto”.

Let your team choose project software for your online collaboration

December 7, 2011

Cartoon: Why don't you collaborate by yourself for a little while?

If you’re a project software or online collaboration geek, you want your team to use your tools. Here’s how to make their tools work for you.

15 best practices for managing your first (or subsequent) web development project

December 1, 2011

Back in the day, the only real way to have an online conversation was to build your own blog or online community. These days, many people, companies and organizations have their first taste of online conversation and social media through pre-established social networks like Twitter, Facebook or YouTube. But eventually, you might outgrow what you [...]

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Career

How to find a great domain name (or Twitter handle)

Web Fuelled Business masters the physical logistics of going virtual

Should my blog be on my web site or a separate site?

Tailor your voice to each place you use social media

Excel template: 7 steps to achieving your goals

Delete your Klout profile and be more than a Klout score

Let your team choose project software for your online collaboration

15 best practices for managing your first (or subsequent) web development project

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