BarCamp Dublin Report

22Apr07

BarCamp Dublin took place yesterday. It was my first BarCamp but certainly won’t be my last. It was a lot of fun and there was a great turnout. The venue in the Digital Exchange building, part of the Digital Hub in Dublin, was a good one but there were persistent internet connectivity problems throughout the [...]

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Your Marks Out Of 10 Please

12Apr07

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Something I’ve been meaning to comment on for quite a while now has been some of what I experienced a few months ago while hunting for a new job1.
One of the thing that really got to me was the number of times I was asked to rate my various skills out [...]

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Getting Creative. Now.

03Feb07

Having been pointed to it by this entry in Guy Kawasaki’s blog, I recently read Hugh MacLeod’s manifesto “How To Be Creative” on ChangeThis1. It really is quite simply the best thing I’ve ever read on creativity. This honest and realistic appraisal of not only how to be creative but what [...]

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Look After The Little Guy

01Mar06

I managed to blag myself into a market research focus group last night1 and it was kind of interesting. I’m not sure if I can say who it was for. I signed something at the end and while they didn’t say that it was an NDA, it could very well have been. [...]

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