Archive for the ‘Networking’ Category

While it is supposedly key to their success, SMEs often have an uneasy relationship with the Internet. It’s a problem with many dimensions. Maybe the logical answer is to find ways to empower SMEs to get the information they need. So here’s an idea.

It’s a constant challenge to keep re-inventing myself—adjusting and repositioning, learning and growing, staying in touch with new developments while staying in touch with my values, and absorbing or editing out information, according to how I want to define ‘me’.

While success is nothing to do with money, survival is everything to do with creativity. It’s an innate part of us and a measure of our ability to evolve as a species. However, we all too often shift responsibility from ourselves to others.

Let me start by saying that I don’t consider myself a blogging expert, in fact, I consistently find how little I know each day, in how much more there is left for me to still find out. That said I have learned…

I took up running recently and joined a club. Now, I’m pretty much hooked on it. Running has all the advantages one would expect: fitness, weight loss and general sense of well-being…

The word “competition” conjures up an unforgiving testing concept where there can be only one winner and everyone else involved is a loser…

Bloggertone.com has grown significantly in the past year, developing a very strong business community. Hundreds of professionals have joined us already to “talk/blog about business” and there are many others to come. But why?

Did you see this article about how the Irish need to do less chit-chat and more “networking? It got me wondering about culture and doing business globally as well as within our local regions. Is this simply a clash of business cultures?

A few years ago I was introduced to Mind Maps by a colleague as a way of organising and structuring my thoughts. In this post I’d like to share some thoughts I have about where Mind Maps can be used effectively in business…

In my experience when working from home, it is very important is to ensure that you are in the right place, both mentally and physically. I’d like to share with you…