Prologue It’s eminently sad that I get my ideas for posts from popular movies but having switched my Twitter regimen from one of careful curation to one of gluttonous follow of anyone who pops up into my feed, I am genuinely struggling for brain fodder (yes, you read that correctly…

I’ve spent the past half decade working with marketing organisations trying to do the same two things: deliver omnichannel and work according to agile practices. In almost all cases, the desire to do these things has been brought about by changes in consumer behaviour, fragmentation of media channels and a…

A few weeks ago I had a lengthy exchange with a gentleman on Twitter about whether his phone was listening to his conversations, and feeding that information back to advertisers who were then targeting him with ads. He was pretty sure this was happening, and quoted as an example a…

I’ve never done a book review on my Medium feed and this piece today is hopefully not going to read like a review. …

If you’ve ever wanted to learn about user experience, you need to look no further than the tens of images of snow covered parks in December. As soon as people start walking through the park, the white spaces begin to be criss-crossed by “informal” pathways which go in different directions…

GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Coffee Morning this week, Friday 21st of May, is at 8 am. Join using this Zoom. ________________________ Every other Friday, myself and russell davies open a Zoom chat and sit down in our respective homes for a cuppa, a chat and to see who else turns up. Any…

A few years into my planning career, I came across Russell Davies and nothing was ever the same after that. First some history. I started doing planning in Bucharest, Romania in early 2000. There was just a handful of us planners back then, and I believe I was among the…

When I had my namesake blog, I used to write a post every December 31st and look back on the year, then set a number of resolutions for the year to come. I did this for about 6 years just before I moved to the UK, and then gave it…

A while back I heard someone (can’t remember who) say something to the effect of “Seth Godin also had this framework, permission marketing, but that didn’t really amount to much”. …