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I got a certificate from google
As I am now a google-certified online marketing fundamentals expert (yes friends, you may touch me, and it will cure all your temporal and spiritual ailments), I wanted to write about my experience of the google course, and some thoughts on digital marketing. Online marketing and SEO are now rather like where medicine was in […]
“There is much to be said for having a small, manageable dream.” Douglas Coupland
Watching a Gary Vaynerchuk video and thinking about business, there is a difficulty in reconciling certain things. We all want to do something we love, but since we’re in the era after the industrial revolution but before the machines take over, that just isn’t yet feasible for everybody. Somebody simply has to do those jobs […]
Ada Lovelace and Grace Hopper
With the Amy Johnson festival celebrating the life of a pioneer aviator now winding down, I wanted to do a very quick blog-post about women in ‘traditionally male’ vocations. I think we all dislike both the condescending manner in which such topics are framed (“I believe that girls can do some things almost as well […]
My hero is a man named Eli the Computer Guy
“Then why don’t you just go and marry Eli the Computer Guy?” is what my long-suffering wife says, in exasperation, when I wax lyrical for the gajillionth time about Eli the Computer Guy. To which I respond by pouting and muttering to myself that Eli would never say such a thing if I WERE married […]
Pivot Tables in Microsoft Excel
I told my wife that I wanted to write a blog post about pivot tables in Microsoft Excel (despite the odds, wanting to write a blog post about pivot tables in Microsoft Excel and being married are not mutually exclusive), and that I was really struggling with how best to frame it. Not enough good […]
World Community Grid and Boinc
I’m a quiet evangelist for World Community Grid and the boinc software platform. Technology seems to me to be becoming religious to its adherents, and these projects are helping to fight diseases and find more efficient ways of creating clean energy, so it’s a difficult association to avoid once you start thinking about it. This […]
Small business advice in the East Riding of Yorkshire
As this is my first blog post I want to keep it as short as possible. Because I hope to focus on small businesses in the area, I was surprised to learn that East Riding council offers free marketing advice to new business start-ups. I worked at the council for over a year, and I […]