Colin Hughes, Managing Director of The Guardian Professional presented the keynote at GIIS Thursday morning. To understand The Guardian, Colin believes you must understand its roots. John Edward Taylor, after witnessing the Peterloo Massacre, feared that Parliament would not get an accurate report from the press. He wrote an account himself and got his report… Read More
Wednesday, the Global Information Industry Summit (GIIS), started with a keynote by Hugo Dixon, Editor in Chief and Chairman of Breakingviews.com (BV), a fully electronic publication of real time financial analysis. “For me content is indeed King,” says Hugo and he believes in charging for it. BV sells team and enterprise subscriptions, can boast 5… Read More
It’s always colder than I think it will be – even when I look at the forecast. My first stop is Ryman (don’t ask me why – I’m just addicted to office supplies). My second stop is Boots to stock up on all the pain relievers that I can’t get over the counter in the… Read More
A friend and I were talking today about the skills we’ve had to developed to work effectively in virtual teams. Remember when a conference call was a free for all and no one knew when to talk and when to be quiet? Remember when the only way you knew if someone on a call had… Read More
Image by wallyg via Flickr For those of you that don't know, there are two Harvard Squares in the Boston area. One is where you'd expect it to be (in Cambridge). The other one is in Charlestown. I looked up Harvard Square on Google Maps, printed my directions, and stored them in my travel folder. … Read More
Ever notice how technology gets adopted first by pornographers, then by more general entertainment companies, then financial services … and so on? Ever notice how traditional publishers are usually coming on board last? Is it funding (porn has more money)? Is it the zealousness of the customer base? Is it a willingness to take risks?… Read More
No matter where we work, the relationships we forge with others are our own. Even if legal or ethical terms constrain how we interact with people initially, the personal impressions with which we’ve left them will never expire. Did we show people respect? Were we sensitive to how we used their time? Were we genuine… Read More
My three-day vacation was somehow no vacation at all, except for one thing: my approach to work. I felt justified in being unavailable at times, didn’t answer every email immediately, shut off IM for blocks of time, and took time to reflect on longer term ideas that I’d been pushing aside for weeks. This is… Read More