Content so good you’d pay for it
I’m a massive fan of the writing of Ben Thompson – and so should you be. The analysis he provides on his blog is superb – and it’s free! Interestingly, he also provides extra content for a fee – a…
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Why writing helps
One of the things that I love about being a blogger is the encouragement it gives me to write. Writing helps. It’s fair to say, I think, that if you want to get good at something, then writing about it…
John Oliver explains net neutrality
Net neutrality is a very important but sadly also very complicated topic. In this video, US based British comedian John Oliver has a go.
Blog academy
I’m running a day long workshop in London on the topic of blogging – might you be interested? Here’s the skinny: Join Dave Briggs for a day’s practical, hands-on workshop learning how to be a better blogger! There are only…
Podcast episode 1 – Dan Slee
Inspired by my friends Lloyd and Robert, I’m starting a regular-ish podcast. Here’s the first episode, where I chat with all round comms supremo Dan Slee, off of Comms 2.0. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/230441292″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] If you would…
Lloyd and Dave talk blogging
Lloyd Davis and I recorded another podcast recently, on the topic of blogging. Here’s Lloyd’s post with some helpful links to follow up on.
Where does the talent lie?
I was working once for a pretty big organisation, who wanted to start a blog. This was about ten years ago, so for a lot of people blogging was kind of new. Despite the fact that I was working there,…
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…
So, you think you want social media training?
Increasingly, following a bit of a chat, it turns out you don’t. I’ve been delivering training on digital tools, including social media, for a fair few years now. I’d like to think I’m quite good at it, and that those…
Fail better
As Samuel Beckett wrote, in Worstward Ho: Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. Acknowledging the fact that we surely don’t really want our project to fail, what does failing better actually mean? It’s surely…