I have been running my own business for the best part of a year now. In terms of the actual duration, it is only a few hundred days but in terms of experience it feels like a lifetime. One of the greatest pleasures about running Play with Learning is the flexibility it gives me to […]
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New Year’s Revolution
I’m excited about this year. I’m not one for making New Year’s resolutions but this year is something of a revolution because I have something better. A new business. A new opportunity. After years of working as an academic, for the BBC and a couple of great independent media companies, I have started my own […]
Adapting to new technologies
A report in the current issue of the Journal of Service Research describes the changing nature of customer relationships and how new technologies have altered the way consumers interact with businesses. The authors from Europe and the US describe a ‘pinball’ framework that characterises the to-ing and fro-ing of these more equal relationships, which they […]
Recession Risk
I spend a good deal of time trying to respond to the social media/ online/ learning needs of all sorts of organisations. There is a commercial imperative to my efforts. Bluntly, I sell ideas. But these are peculiar times. Recession changes the game. In economic straits, all business, but public organisations especially, are less likely […]