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On Mind the product 2015 #mtpcon
Last Friday I spent the day (incidentally my first Friday working for a couple of years) at the annual Mind the Product conference. As the name suggests, it's all about product. So when we weren't debating over the collective noun for Product Managers (an 'Epic' was the preferred choice), we heard all sorts of product…
On thanking
Earlier in the Summer, we knew we were about to reach our first big Yimby milestone - raising over £1 million. This was pretty exciting for us, and we wanted to find a way to talk about it and do something to celebrate that. The obvious thing was to do some sort of press release (which…
On presentation skills
Our lovely People Team (don't call them HR) have recently started an internal learning curriculum where anyone in the office can offer to give a talk on any topic and anyone else can sign up to attend. There's a wide range of learning on offer, from meditation and mindfulness to Excel training and intros to html…
On social, mobile and awards
Over the last few months I've given a few talks, mainly on the themes of social and mobile (with the notable exception of an awards ceremony). I've been talking about this theme (read: going on about it) for a while, but it's been good to pull together a couple of presentations and a blog post…
My notes from #f8 – anonymous login, mobile likes and a #sherylselfie
I've been lucky enough to be in San Francisco this week for Facebook's F8 developer conference. It's been a really interesting experience altogether, being in the epicentre of the startup world and visiting the likes of Pinterest and Facebook's offices to see what it's like. But F8 was a conference on a whole new level…
The shocking truth about shocking charity videos
LinkedIn appears to have opened up it's publishing platform to people who aren't famous influencers (ie, people like me), so I wrote a post over there to see what it's like. And it's, well, like publishing anywhere, except you do seem to get greater visibility than you might otherwise - or at least for me…
Play this post, make sweet music
Make some music. Click in the frame below and press any key from a-z. http://www.patatap.com/ Tapping 'w' and 'e' at around 105 BPM makes a nice ambient house soundtrack, if that's your thing. This piece of internet genius is brought to you by patatap.
The JustGiving numbers behind #nomakeupselfie
Now that we've had the selfies, and the blogs against selfies, and the blogs for selfies, and the blogs about what charities can learn from selfies, there's really not much left to say about the #nomakeupselfie campaign. So I won't bother (or perhaps leave it to my sessions at Fundraising Online or the IoF National…
On innovations in digital fundraising
Today I gave a presentation to a bunch of young charity sector professionals who are part of the Charity works scheme. If you've never heard of it, it's the UK charity sector's graduate scheme and is a great thing. Check them out (and then come back here). As part of their training, they regularly come…
