The View from Zero Gravity
The ‘Added Value’ of Culture in Communities
In a recent posting to Facebook, the father of a friend of mine had this to say (I have not included the name of the city to protect the innocent - and it's a pretty common story anyway): I'm not easily disappointed, but as I study the platforms of candidates for...
Applied Design Thinking: Finding a Job?
Here's another posting made from a comment I made in response to a question on LinkedIn that got me going.... How would you apply Design Thinking to the process of "finding a job"? My response: Design thinking is a mindset and point of view, with sets of tools to...
Birthday Greetings
I've never been one to deny my age or waffle about it, while maintaining the details of actual date and time as a security precaution online. But I do love that LinkedIn makes it easy for the nearly 1000 people in my network there to send greetings on the date. My...
The Distraction of Branding – Part 2
This is my response to a posting by a colleague in a forum - the question was: Branding, THEN Website? Or the other way 'round? I think we mis-advise people to spend too much energy on putting this cart before the horse - we need to know our niche and the people who...
The Distraction of Branding – Part 1
Help Me Overcome Over-Analysis Paralysis and Choose a Website Idea From This List of 3 Richard: this first bit is for everyone who reads this - Secure the domain name that is your own name. Even if you never use it visibly, when you DO become a famous sought-after...
BC’s Skills and Jobs Plan – workforce as a commodity
Reading The Plan, I cannot help but think that our provincial government's 'core review' of the public post-secondary institutions, a process that is not yet over, was only a ruse. It occurs to me that this kind of directive, backed by the clout of financial...