Business

I’ve used business cards to promote my books, to encourage people to sponsor me and I’ve even used them for business.Two things:Firstly, I don’t use Vistaprint any more. I pay a professional (Big Jon) to design them and use printed.com (not an affiliate link) to...

Epic

I tend to like big ideas, epic projects and goals that go beyond the norm. So when I was learning about blogging, and came across this post – Write epic shit – it stayed with me. If you read just a single article about blogging, I recommend this one....

Information Critic

I’ve been asked a few times by friends and clients to assess their websites. So, what sort of things am I looking at and reporting on? Here’s a list: Who’s it for? Is it obvious? How is it designed for them? Does the language resonate with this...

Picture This

Adding pictures or graphics to the interior pages of my books has always been a bit of an issue for me because the resolution of almost every image I’ve wanted to use has been too low. And then it becomes a hassle to get the book past Amazon’s publishing...

Finally

Finally, I’ve been adding lots of the posts I’ve written on these pages to the first draft of the book (a Word doc which I back up on Google Drive after working on it). And as I do so, it’s becoming clear that the book will almost certainly consist...

With A Little Help From My Friends

When I think about how brilliantly the internet and mobiles enable us to maintain numerous close personal relationships in many places, I’m reminded of Dunbar’s number. First proposed in the 1990s by British anthropologist Robin Dunbar, his suggestion is...