Combating Digital Taylorism – valuing the individual
Frederick Taylor wrote The Principles of Scientific Management in 1911. His principles became known as Taylorism. He was the original proponent of the time-and-motion study, and setting up clear...
View ArticleAvoiding RSI
If you’re making plans for the year (though a bit late for actual resolutions perhaps?) then a good thing to think about is avoiding RSI. Learning technology and social media people spend a lot of time...
View ArticleCelebrate women learning to use the Web and social media
Let’s hear it for the women who are learning to conquer the web… Today (24th March) is Ada Lovelace Day, an international day of blogging organised by Suw Charman-Anderson to draw attention to women...
View ArticleRaindrops in the cloud: the advantages and disadvantages of using cloud...
Twitter has failed and your shared online calendar is down. The lag on your task list server is too great for the overloaded wifi you’re currently using and you’ve forgotten your password for that...
View ArticleRemote working a casualty of the MP expenses furore
One of the sad side-points to this week’s revelations about MPs expenses is that a remote worker is seen as not an appropriate employee. At a time when flexible working of all kinds is supporting...
View ArticleSeven actions of effective remote managers
More and more companies and organisations are taking advantage of the benefits that flexible working and particularly remote working offers. There can be particular challenges for the manager of a...
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Nottingham is brimming with new media…
The second Media Camp Nottingham on 27th March was at the excellent venue Lace Market House on High Pavement. One might think from the lack of funding and traditional media and other interest in...
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Serendipity as a career plan?
I feel at the moment I’m at a chapter break in my life, looking for new opportunities in my working life, and I have been pondering how useful it is to set goals. The task of re-assessing one’s life...
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Remote managers and reflection: this time last year
Once a month I like to look back on what I was blogging about this time last year and in previous years. It often prompts reflection on how things have – or have not – changed and where I have moved...
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Using online tools or a VLE for coaching and training coaches and counsellors
Until quite recently the coaching community wouldn’t touch e-learning with a barge pole. Many coaches and counsellors thought that coaching and counselling has to be done face to face or not at all....
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