Pronounced as "I Write" - unutterably unctuous, plausibly perspicacious
It may seem an obscure topic, but today is World Intellectual Property Day. The history is more interesting than you’d imagine. Only two years after the Unification of the Scottish and English Parliaments, in 1707, the origins of copyright laws were established in “The Statute of Anne, the Copyright Act 1709”, or to give it [...]
True story with a purpose.
Years ago, I was recruiting for a client in Ayrshire, who needed a Design Engineer. As per usual I took on the job, quoted our fees, yada yada yada. During the process of sourcing candidates I networked through to a candidate who seemed to match the requirement perfectly. I approached [...]
I reckon a degree of perspective is required right now, when considering the possibility of a “hung parliament” in the UK. I may be proven wrong by events, but I’m pretty confident in my views.
A good friend of mine is THE most devoted Celtic supporter you could ever hope to meet. An intelligent guy, [...]
Credit Control. No, bear with me, this gets interesting. This is the dullest blog subject ever, surely? Until, that is, you are waiting interminably for some tight-arsed penny pinching client to cough up money that has been promised for months. Then it gets absolutely vital. Worse still, when they outright refuse to pay, and dispute [...]
This is a response to the stupid article I read, which favours the opposite response. Linkedin is of course the foremost online business network, and the one which most professionals will sign up for, even if they use no other form of social media. It isn’t yet universal, and there are some sections of industry, [...]
It’s a competitive world, and never more so than now. We all want our fair share, or at least what we think is our fair share. Employers want to attract better employees, candidates want to get better jobs, with more pay, and websites want more traffic. However, very few of us actually believe we are [...]
No not you, and I hope not me. I’ll try and keep this short, as there are already way too many blog articles discursively annotating the onward march of the social media phenomenon. Pop is indeed eating itself.
In my view, the Network Effect, that is the key to the success of Linkedin, Facebook and [...]
I am totally transfixed by this election.
What is clear is that we will not see the scenes of euphoria that greeted Tony Blair, (seen above) entering Downing Street in 1997. In no way does this election have the appeal of the Obama election, but I think there are elements which make it fascinating for [...]
