Wallingford Bunkfest: a celebration to mark the end of summer.
It’s official: being nice is good for business. A bunch of bosses from big American corporates have put out a statement telling us so. According to the New York Times, the Business Roundtable has declared that the responsibility of business is no longer just to its shareholders: now, there must be a “fundamental commitment to all of our stakeholders”. That means employees, suppliers, the environment and so on. Read more ›
Looking beautiful in the dawn light, just before demolition. I’ll miss them.
I’ve never sent a cold email, but like all small business owners I’ve received a few. There’s one in my inbox at the moment with the subject line ‘1st Page On Google Ranking’. Yeah, right.
So if ‘Yeah, right’ is the common answer to a cold email, how do you do it differently? Read more ›
A bookshelf at Mostly Books in Abingdon, in honour of Book Lovers Day.
Why do all articles about internet security have to be illustrated with pictures of young men in hoodies? Well… they don’t. It’s about time that changed, and someone’s doing something about it.
Part of it is to do with what’s available in stock photo libraries – there isn’t much else but the clichéd hoodie picture or rows of green code. And part of it is that it feels like an abstract concept that is hard to illustrate. But now someone is doing something about it. Read more ›
What are your five favourite websites?
It’s a funny question, isn’t it? I came across it recently in a survey but it doesn’t really reflect the way I use the internet these days. And it got me thinking. Read more ›
One of the joys of being self-employed is the flexibility, and I’m particularly grateful for this when the weather gets hot. I’ve been experimenting with different working patterns, including siestas and working at night. (I haven’t done the laptop-in-the-garden thing yet, but it’s another option.) I’m still not as productive as I’d like to be, but I’m glad I’m not in an office. Read more ›
