‘I am not a foreigner,’ exclaimed Paddington hotly. ‘I’m from darkest Peru.’
Sometimes it takes a simple message to spread the word about a powerful cause. Simple Acts is the campaign behind Refugee Week 2009, a programme of events to celebrate the contribution of refugees to culture in the UK.
Simple Acts is unwrapping complex subjects like [...]
Entries from June 2009
June 16, 2009
A simple post for simple acts
June 12, 2009
Bonfire of Inspiration: giving an Ignite presentation
If you only had 5 minutes on stage what would you say?
Watch the video below for storytelling, speaking and simplifying communication — great stuff.
Find out more about Ignite wherever in the world you happen to be.
Check out this post from Garr Reynolds for more about Ignite presentations.
June 11, 2009
Post-it note marketing
I’ve just been reading this blog post after a recommendation from @trendplanner on Twitter. You might like to check it out too.
50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive is a new ‘pop psych’ title by three US writers. It’s not something I’d normally check out but via blog-osmosis point 10 caught my eye:
Hand-written Post-It note [...]
June 10, 2009
Be a sponge
I am on a clearing-out mission. The need for such a project assaulted me the other evening when the only-place-wide-enough-for-cramming-oversized-books shelf of my bookcase gave out as I crouched perilously beneath it.
For the sake of neatness, I would love to say that Neil Smith’s Bang, Crunch struck the decisive blow. What actually spilled forth were [...]
June 2, 2009
The definition of smart?
Back in February I picked up ‘What Would Google Do?’ by Jeff Jarvis. (Aside: If you’re passionate about the future of technology and communication this is a must have. I’d happily lend you my copy, but it’s covered in over-enthusiastic scribbles).
Last weekend I started reading WWGD? for the second time. And, as usual, it got [...]
