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• Off the grid: the pleasure of radio silence

  GASPE, QUEBEC -- "My name is David, and I have been clean for three or four days. I haven't read... or even thought about a newspaper in that time. I feel... I feel... GREAT!" Of course it used to be much more remote. I remember a seven or eight hour Read More... Posted 30 July 2008 00:19 by David Ferrabee | (Comments Off) Filed under: Technology

• My first century: 100 books sold

  STARBUCKS -- Late last month some lucky punter bought the 100th copy of my book People Power . It looks like it was through Amazon -- as my revenue was less than 10% of the cost. But I am not complaining. That gives me my first century... in book publishing Read More... Posted 04 June 2008 10:04 by David Ferrabee | (Comments Off) Filed under: Consulting, New business, marketing, social media, Technology, selling, etc., PeoplePower

• Doing business in South Africa

  A LONDON KITCHEN -- I am heading to South Africa next week to do some business. I have long been a fan of South Africa. It was a big part of my life in the 1970s when I lived in Kenya and my father reported on it for the Canadian media, and my class mates Read More... Posted 28 May 2008 14:17 by David Ferrabee | 1 Comments Filed under: New business, marketing, social media, Technology, selling, etc., Africa

• If iPod did search engines

  IN THE WEEKEND SUN -- It's lovely out, but spring has sprung, so I am hiding inside sniffling. I don't know if you read Neville Hobson's blog a lot. But if you don't, you should. Neville tends to know what's happening online as it happens. And if you're Read More... Posted 12 May 2008 13:50 by David Ferrabee | 3 Comments Filed under: social media, Technology, etc.

• Wikipedia, The Vault & employees

  AT HOME -- Just looking through Wikipedia for some information of a few topics close to my heart. And I am still stumped. There have been articles recently about how companies must not edit their own pages on Wikipedia. I think Jimmy that Wikipedia-ubermaster Read More... Posted 04 May 2008 14:22 by David Ferrabee | 4 Comments Filed under: Consulting, Internal communications, social media, Technology, etc., Management

• Terminal 5: Bless them for trying

  SEVILLE -- I used to work in the airline business and I know how conservative it is. Modern commercial aviation had it's roots in the military, after the Second World War. So until quite recently the whole business was run by military guys. Now they can Read More... Posted 03 April 2008 12:21 by David Ferrabee | (Comments Off) Filed under: Leadership, Change Management, involvement, Engagement, social media, Technology, motivation, etc., morale

• Counterknowledge: It's what you know to be true... that ain't

  DAVOS -- Don't worry. All the clever people have left Davos. I am not here for the WEF. I am here for a boys ski weekend and we've been plumbing the depths of counterknowledge . It's a new word for me too. A Telegraph reporter has just written a book Read More... Posted 10 March 2008 17:00 by David Ferrabee | (Comments Off) Filed under: Culture, Consulting, Internal communications, social media, Technology, etc.

• Outting myself: I have 3 avatars

  THE CENTRAL LINE -- I have only just realised this. And I am coming to terms with it... Slowly. It was never meant to be this way. My parents loved me. I had a normal childhood. I hold down a regular job. I even have a family. How did this happen...? Read More... Posted 28 January 2008 09:57 by David Ferrabee | (Comments Off) Filed under: Consulting, Conferences, involvement, Engagement, social media, Technology, motivation, etc., morale, SecondLife

• Facebook, Second Life, Shakespeare... Obviously

  ON THE WAY TO HEATHROW -- My brother Mike is a clever and interesting guy. He's older than me but hasn't had a clear physical advantage over me since I turned about 15. So we've had to become friends. He wrote this morning (late last night) to say that Read More... Posted 09 January 2008 18:53 by David Ferrabee | 2 Comments Filed under: Culture, People management, social media, Technology, etc., PeoplePower

• Change & Internal Comms: What we've learned this year

  WIMBLEDON SHOPPING CENTRE -- I learned a few things this year. 1. Corn is acceptably deployed in a sandwich (with tuna, of course.) 2. Most corporate communications functions are delivering about 10% of the value they could do. 3. You can calculate the Read More... Posted 21 December 2007 09:01 by David Ferrabee | (Comments Off) Filed under: Consulting, New business, marketing, social media, Technology, selling, etc., PeoplePower, HR

• Book signing on Second Life

  SCHIPOL AIRPORT -- I will have to rely on the kindness of strangers (as Mae West said) but on Tuesday 04 December at 7 pm BST (2pm EST), I am going to do a book signing in Second Life. Roughly here: http://slurl.com/secondlife/IBM/81/46/27 That's me. Read More... Posted 24 November 2007 11:45 by David Ferrabee | 3 Comments Filed under: People management, social media, Technology, etc., SecondLife, PeoplePower

• Amazon launches digital book...!

  LONDON -- There have been rumours about this for a while, but Amazon has just launched their hardware that can be used to read books. It's called Kindle and it's available from Amazon.com. And it's not being reviewed that well. I am sad to see that, because Read More... Posted 19 November 2007 19:58 by David Ferrabee | (Comments Off) Filed under: Internal communications, social media, Technology, etc.

• Email addiction

  KNIGHTSBRIDGE IN THE DARK -- My colleague Guy sent me a link to this great article on email-free-days . (So I printed it to read on the bus, of course.) Suw says she wants to avoid the term "email addiction" because it's too loaded. But I think it's time Read More... Posted 26 October 2007 09:11 by David Ferrabee | 2 Comments Filed under: People management, Change Management, involvement, Engagement, social media, Technology, motivation, etc., morale

• Old people online

  MY HOUSE -- We ran a "social media" session for the newest people into our company today. We call them grads. All the boys were called James and the girls were German. We expected them to teach us something... But they were technologically clueless. Or Read More... Posted 24 October 2007 08:09 by David Ferrabee | 7 Comments Filed under: social media, Technology, etc.

• Social Media: 3 big things I learned today

  AMSTERDAM -- It feels like I live here now. I am back in Amsterdam to chair a conference on social media and internal communications . We're in the Amsterdam Hilton where John & Yoko had a bed-in only 37 years ago. I think they've changed the linen Read More... Posted 25 September 2007 20:13 by David Ferrabee | 3 Comments Filed under: social media, Technology, etc.