From the monthly archives:

September 2009

Delicious Bookmarks for September 15th to September 23rd

These are my Delicious Links for September 15th through September 23rd: Twitter 101 for Business — A Special Guide – Twitter (yes those people) have written their own guide to business use of twitter. Here it is. How to write a corporate Twitter strategy (…and here’s one I made earlier) – Neil Williams, Head of [...]

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Delicious Bookmarks for August 26th to September 10th

These are my Delicious Links for August 26th through September 10th: Presentation Zen: If your idea is worth spreading, then presentation matters – "Any professional in their field can ramble on for an hour or two. But 20 minutes to tell your story, to give it your best shot? That takes creativity. If you're going [...]

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Looking for your AEC ROI Stories

As you no doubt have realised I’ve been asked to talk about “Professional Networking” at the RIBA at the end of October. The audience will be a group of around 80 people from the construction and related industries who in some way help the RIBA, by sitting on their committees, for example. It’s a thankyou [...]

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Stop Pretending You’re Everyone

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I’m not particularly keen on ‘Social Media Geeks’. A bit like I’m not particularly keen on ‘Architecture Geeks’. You know, the type of people who talk only to their friends and people in their own sphere, and who can’t stop spouting incomprehensible twaddle in language only their converts can understand. However, things can get interesting [...]

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Strategies for Success in this Recession – Part 3: Things to start doing

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by Richard Derwent Cooke This is the third blog in this series, and hopefully you now have the core idea that being proactive is the key to success in these recessionary times. Last time we considered things that you needed to stop doing and now I’d like to consider those things that you need to [...]

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Delicious Bookmarks for August 18-26

These are my Delicious Links for August 18-26 Writing good apology letters – The main thing to remember about apology letters is the fact that you are addressing them to very angry, and often irrational, people. If you’ve run over your next-door-neighbour’s cat, embezzled millions from the bank, or sold one of your customers a [...]

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What Should I Talk to the RIBA About?

I’ve been agonizing about something, and as it is something about the social networking world, I thought I should ask the wonderful people in my network to help me decide on it. So here it is. I’ve been asked to do a 15 minute presentation about ‘professional networking’ at an RIBA event in October. I’ve [...]

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Strategies for Success in this Recession – Part 2: Things to stop doing

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By Richard Derwent Cooke Once you have accepted that you are best able to succeed in the recession by taking charge, a key question to ask is “What am I doing that no longer serves me?” Things like:- What activities are wasting my time? Remember the 80:20 rule Which customers are taking a disproportionate amount [...]

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