Dave

Dave

Business reimagined

I was chatting the other day to my pal Dave Coplin from Microsoft who told me he was deep into writing a new book. Awesome! It made me go and look back at his previous one, Business Reimagined (free on…

Five for Friday – 21 March 2014

Five for Friday is WorkSmart’s weekly roundup of interesting stuff from the week’s reading. Can People Collaborate Effectively While Working Remotely? 7 Predications for the Future of Work Startup culture hacks The power of technology for learning and why creating…

Another podcast!

Today I was at #barcampnfp – a rather fun unconference for people working in charities and other not (just) for profit organisations. I was flying the flag for TaskSquad, the fantastic youth employment startup that Mary McKenna is leading, and…

Link roundup

I find this stuff so you don’t have to: The power of technology for learning and why creating together is better | Helen Milner Barcamp NotForProfits | dxw (I’ll be there representing @tasksquadhq) Digital local government: a future in Google…

The Workplace – Q and A site for your career

I recently came across The Workplace – a question and answer site for people who go to work. It’s built on the Stack Exchange platform – which has considerable success in building knowledge communities, particularly around techy topics. I personally…

Working openly on the web

There was a nice guest post from Doug Belshaw from Mozilla on Brian Kelly’s blog last week. Entitled What Does Working Openly on the Web Mean in Practice?, it told us a bit about Mozilla’s culture of openness and how…

Add-ons for Google Docs and Sheets

Google has snuck out some rather cool new functionality to its cloud based productivity suite Google Drive. Called add-ons, you can now use them to add extra functionality to your Google Docs and Spreadsheets experience. Here’s a video explaining it…