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WCEU 2015 Podcast: Graham Armfield
Graham is a tremendously good sport and was our first victim subject for a podcast in Seville. It was great that his area of expertise was so high profile in WCEU this year – his consulting firm Coolfields specialises in accessibility, and with all the UX and API work going on in WordPress right now,…
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WordCamp Europe – Welcome to the Community!
I’m just back from WordCamp Europe 2015 (AKA WCEU) and wow, what a weekend. I was there with the whole Human Made crew, and carried on to the company retreat near Tarifa, which is in fact ongoing. But WordCamps are curious affairs and in a way they’re the soul of WordPress itself, so it felt…
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And so ends the freelance adventure…
…bar the accounting, natch. I left Clearleft about 5 months ago, with a really open mind about what to do next. Though my career had taken a decidedly ‘biz dev’ direction, I was still uncertain if it was really what I wanted to do, so when selecting where to focus next I took the easy…
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And now I’m a Commercial Director
A couple of months ago Tim Dobson told me about an amazing WordPress agency, properly world class, who were looking for a business development person. Having just left exactly that kind of role at Clearleft, I wasn’t sure if I really wanted to try it again, so I did. It so nearly worked out at…
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Collaboration Workshop Reflections
Last week I delivered the first round of workshops for the BBC Academy on Collaborative Innovation. The full title was (and this was not my call) “Driving innovation through open collaboration and partnership“ – hell of a mouthful, but apparently hit enough buttons for all but the last session of the day to be booked solid…
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Open Source CMS Predictions
I work with HumanMade at the moment (great team) and a lot of the enterprise level WordPress sites we do get launched on Pantheon. So when a client pointed me at a webinar from Pantheon I took a good look. This is their Open Source CMS predictions for 2015 webinar- and a great deal more interesting than the…
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Collaborative Innovation – the need for Empathy
Right now I am working up a training session for a client about Collaborative Innovation, a variation on Open Innovation really, or a subset thereof. The senior managers of this broadcaster and engineering outfit come together a few times annually for a day of workshops, training seminars and skills presentations, and this year, I’m pitching…
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Profile pix
Never really know if I’m doing the right thing with these, and I consistently mislay them, but here’s one I took on my iPhone this morning.
