Sharing what we Learnt

Jacob, 16 days ago

After every Shirlaws conference, attendees - in this case 57 coaches from Australia and New Zealand - have a chance to share their 'Key Learnings'. Last week we convened on Queensland's Gold Coast, and MC Richard Erickson proposed something different - and interactive blog post where we could not only share our key learnings but also, over time, practical application of those lessons in our own businesses and those of our clients and partners.The Context of the Sanctuary Cove conference was 'Positioning', so I expect many of the lessons will relate to focus and revenue generation. To contribute yours, please... Read More

Technology Trends for Businesses in 2008

Jacob, 24 days ago

VoIP Why?Cost efficient, close to free telephony.I've heard of that, but exactly what is it?Historically, telephones have transferred your voice, converted and interpreted by receivers, through increasingly efficient materials from copper lines to fibre optics. VoIP stands for ‘Voice over Internet Protocol', and (without exploring the history of TCP/IP), this basically means that voice is converted into data packets and sent over the internet - cheaply. Even more excitingly, compared to pictures of babies or long-winded blog posts, voice data doesn't take up much space at all.OK, and how can I make this work for my Business?VoIP is often thought... Read More

My Pond Theory, or How Social Networks Avoid Failing

Jacob, about 1 month ago

 How to change So I think I have the answer to why, as they currently exist, social networks must ‘fail'. (You will have noted I put ‘fail' in inverted commas. Many will succeed in their own way, by staying small and avoiding this issue. Most of those will define that as failing, because they don't meet a particular definition of success, a definition which is too broad to be meaningful.) So how do we prevent the failure? As you can see, News Home is trying to do that by remaining quiet while others look for every media opportunity possible. They... Read More