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Nov 3, 2011 11:05:11 AM
So I've been asking twitter about virtual assistants, the type of people who work remotely on very specific tasks that take away the pain. Perhaps I jest when I say pain, though I'm not sure I do really. When you're juggling multiple projects it really does make sense to call on additional help in order to free up precious time. I have used VAs on a variety of projects and when you think about it it makes a great deal of sense. It makes sense for a number of reasons the main ones really are that you get some specialism along with a guaranteed output specific to your brief at your deadline. I really do believe that as a business grows it is fundamentally important that you can begin to delegate the technical aspects of particular roles and this is where I find the VAs very useful. So I'm not talking about a virtual assistant that processes all of my communications, emails and handles telephone calls. No, what I'm talking about is outsourcing very specific tasks. Tasks... Relative News
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Nov 2, 2011 9:22:23 AM
Great news for all my audio related friends! I've reopened my studio recording engineer forum with a brand spanking new version of Vbulletin. The forum itself has been around since about 2003 in one form or another, in fact there are thousands of old posts which have now been archived. The old recording engineer forum was running on phpbb, but in recent months this became a real spam magnet, so something had to give. I'm absolutely delighted we can now carry on with his beautiful interface and encourage new members and old alike to partake in this great community. All you have to do to register is pop along to studio recording engineer dot com, create an account, and then just wait a wee while for your account to be moderated. Why does your account need to be moderated? Well simply put, in order for the spam monkies to be disheartened and to not bother due to inefficiency, we need to make it very difficult for them to spam. Therefore moderating all new accounts ensures... Relative News
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Oct 31, 2011 1:59:35 PM
So I found this on view tube. It's absolutely amazing and made me chuckle so much that I wanted to share it with you to make you chuckle too. It's quite a bizarre title "criminal penguins" but when you have a closer look at the video you'll see just how naughty one of these penguins is, he really is a criminal penguin. I suppose we could draw lots of parallels with people maybe. Perhaps you do lots of hard work sometimes and maybe sometimes your stuff gets stolen. Or maybe even you're the naughty penguin. Perhaps you're the criminal, perhaps you're the one that takes the stones from other people. If you are you should be very very ashamed of yourself, stealing other people's hard work is very much a criminal activity. Anyway, I found it hilarious though I really do feel very sorry for the poor penguin who is working so hard to build his nest. Relative News
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Aug 23, 2011 10:11:46 PM
It struck me today that you might not be aware that my business has its own fast internet server.I've had a dedicated internet server since about 2000 and in fact with the same company too and over the years literally hundreds of sites have had the benefit of it.Currently we host a whole variety of client sites some large some small, some niche sites, some full blown community portals and even schools!But why am I writing a blog post about this? - well it's just that it crossed my mind that you might know a friend, or even need a hosting solution yourself for your website.The hosting is not cheap, nor expensive, we range from 25 pounds a month to well over 500, depending on the service and bandwidth but one thing is constant - 100% up-time, super-fast speed and very little restrictions.So I just wanted to put it out there that if you need your website hosted or know a friend, just ask. More soon. Relative News
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Jul 10, 2011 9:13:52 PM
I've taken a particular interest in the current media scandal taking place in UK, not so much for the hideous activity of phone hacking (which is heinous) but rather in the fall-out that is now taking place. Regardless of your preferred news outlet, the rabbit's hat goes deep on this one. It reminds me of a conversation I had a few years ago with a Zimbabweian friend of mine. Jo was particularly fascinated with how England was not overtly corrupt, and was trying to figure out how the social circles operate (that's not a Google+ reference). She felt there was a level of snobbery and closed ranking regarding the flow of information - she was right! I've heard the same thing from other foreign nationals looking to understand British culture. I had explained the "old boy" network and that in high society it's all about following the money that flows initiated through back room deals. It's not even hidden really, it's more a case of "the social silence" as Gillian Tett states.... Relative News
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Jul 8, 2011 2:26:16 PM
This post is nothing more than a boomark for me really, though you might find it handy if you ever need some smart themes for Drupal. I'm building out a new Drupal project and I'm in the processing of presenting a few theme ideas to the client. It's a handy process as you can quickly and easily display radically different designs to test the waters and see what the client likes. I may never use these themes, but they are a great way of presenting different feels and design concepts. Anyway you can find these at Steve's Templates. Relative News
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Jun 23, 2011 10:13:27 PM
It's last year's work but still rocks my cotton socks off. MashUpBreakDown As well as amazingly functional and pretty it's also pretty savvy on the technology department. Smartness. Relative News
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Jun 14, 2011 8:12:55 PM
Did I tell you that I have been enjoying a period of "in between work"? - well that's not exactly true. I am still working, but I've been helping a friend out with people that want to "hire a boat in Falmouth". It's a nice new learning curve in many ways but in other ways it is going complete full circle. One of my first jobs, when still at school, was helping out on the self drive boat hire business in Falmouth. I couldn't wait to finish school and get down on the quay, and of course all weekend and every day during the summer holidays. I was about 11 or so when I started that job and it stood me excellent stead for a life of working and business. The work was all about turning up at about 08:30, getting the boats off the moorings, cleaning them, and then touting for business with the tourists, it's the same business model now, nothing has changed. Although they do have a Facebook Page now ;) So as I've been doing this for a several weeks (when not working and growing... Relative News
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Jun 13, 2011 7:37:20 PM
Today I popped into SecondLife which is the first time I've done such a things for literally years. I'm not sure why I had the compulsion to log-in again but I did, but more importantly, I'm am glad I did. SecondLife was a very busy place for me several years ago culminating in the work I did for Coca Cola on the Virtual Thirst project, it was always going to be hard to top that in there to be honest, so I guess I got kind of bored and moved on. I'm digressing though, and I just wanted to mention that I was glad I popped in as it gave me a moment of reflection looking at the old friends list. In fact I sent out a message to that list and it was a great feeling to get lots of people instantly getting in touch with me again, brilliant, really brilliant! This experience today helped me finalise another idea I have been having recently which is to start another Internet Radio Show, available as a podcast, or just an on-line player. I used to do one regularly when I owned... Relative News
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Jun 10, 2011 5:16:15 PM
I was researching a little today about the laws and what not regarding a client taking photographs and using them on their Facebook page. ElementalUk is a Water Sports Adventure Centre in Cornwall and they've a nice shiny new facebook page. So I was curious what the law had to say regarding these guys taking pics of everyone enjoying themselves on the beach and then uploading to facebook. I mean they want to show the World how cool a place it is right? After some deliberation and much chat it was Rachel Clarke on Twitter, who was really helpful in helping me understand the laws and guidelines for taking pictures and using them on a facebook page. So thanks Rachel. After studying a few resources such as the one here, it seems that as the beach is a public place it is legal to be able to take photographs providing they are not for commercial use - which in this case they are not as they will not be "DIRECTLY" making money from the photographs. A nice Friday win for the guys. Relative News
