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Ranting – it’s what I do best
I think I can kiss goodbye to certificates from any of the courses I’m doing because I’ve fallen so far behind. You can take them at your own pace but they all have written parts that have to be handed...
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A stroke of genius
Tonight’s post has gone a bit medical on me. Last Sunday when I opened MiniHim’s curtains there was an ambulance outside the house across the road. The couple who live there are getting on a bit but...
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Past it at 35? I don’t think so!
I love how Twitter helps make things actually happen. Last night Jay Rosen put out three tweets about a forum looking for young, networked women who are using mobile to change the world. I knew without...
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Mentoring the mentors
I have struggled to bring you this post. We’ve had sketchy broadband and HimIndoors can’t make up his mind whether it’s a dodgy router, dodgy Zen or dodgy BT. On Friday I tried tethering the netbook to...
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Help me with my pledge
I have been on the marketing/comms team for a new initiative for a few weeks now but last Friday’s meeting was the first I could attend. Get Active Lanarkshire is a partnership between NHS Lanarkshire,...
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Time to let go of the CMS?
The platform our website used to be built on started to crumble because it wasn’t supported and increasingly it required a lot of bespoke coding to make it do what we wanted. The decision was taken to...
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Finding the time to read
This is a brief post because I bought a couple of books from Amazon which arrived yesterday. I started it on the bus this morning and I’m hooked so I want to get back to reading it if that’s OK with...
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Mapping out comms
I’m interrupting a particularly lovely glass Barbera d’Asti to bring you this so I’ll be quick. I’ve been through a couple of lean management workouts at work and they are great but take ages if...
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Celebrating followers
Tonight’s another quick post because we’re going to watch Seven Psychopaths on DVD. Today I reached my 1000th follower on Twitter and although the number of followers should never be taken as a measure...
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Overcoming food fears
I love cooking but there are things I avoid. They all have something two things in common: they’re fiddly there’s a high probability (in my head) that it’ll be disastrous and my ‘good cook’ cover will...
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Ricki did Homework for all of us
Ok, so I’m back in the driving seat after a long break due to a mixture of family commitments, dodgy broadband and a business trip to London. You’d better strap yourself in though because this is a sad...
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The Wedding Dress
OK, so I haven’t blogged in ages but I’d like your opinions please. MiniMe’s been asked to enter a writing competition. It’s to be up to 100 words with a twist, either a reworking of something...
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Paris or Rome?
Well, I thought I was going to be talking about persuasion this week but apparently I was looking at my social psychology notes instead of my Beginners Guide to Irrationality but the two disciplines...
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The unconscious consumer
Week three in my behavioural economics series inspired by Dan Ariely’s MOOC Beginner’s Guide to Irrationality. The unconscious consumer When something is restricted, such as choice, people fight to get...
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Do you want ibuprofen with the bill sir?
This behavioural economics series is turning into an epic. This week’s hot topics are the pain of paying and mental accounting – those who know me realise that my accounting skills are a bit off the...
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Gifts that keep giving
When I was doing Dan Ariely’s Beginners Guide to Irrationality course on Coursera, there were lots of little Eureka moments and this was one of them. Human irrationality at its best or worst depending...
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Because I’m happy
I don’t know anyone who doesn’t love a bargain but often they aren’t all they’re cracked up to be. The price of free People will happily queue up for ages for a free coffee from Starbucks but would...
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Fudging the nudge
Sorry folks, missed a post last week because I’ve ended up with two more courses running at the same time and it all got too much again – will I never learn? This week I’m back to share what I learned...
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Don’t let doctors decide
A final few words on cheating from Dan Ariely’s behavioural economics MOOC A Beginners Guide to Irrationality on Coursera. Cheating over time People start by cheating just a little but at some point...
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