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Alan Lewis: the best accountants website – ever

March 4, 2010 Marketing

How often do you see an accountant’s website that doesn’t look like an accountant’s website? I’m willing to bet that almost never occurs. How often have you heard me bitching about crappy professional websites? Plenty. The one you see above represents a small Australian practice, Alan Lewis Accountants. You can see from this snapshot the [...]

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Email is driving me crazy

November 24, 2008 General

Email ought to be indispensable but for me it’s a resource drain. Over the last year I’ve heard many colleagues complain about the extent to which they’re drowning in email. I now find myself in a similar situation. It reminds of the time in the mid-90′s when my snail mail box heaved with material, most [...]

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SocialText's collaboration home run

October 1, 2008 General

Last evening, Ross Mayfield, co-founder of SocialText hosted a conference call with a group of my colleagues. I’ve given my opinion about one element of the service, Social Signals, a kind of enterprise communications tool similar to Twitter over at ZDNet. Here is a 60 second video that explain the new platform. In this post [...]

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I'd prefer a root canal filling

July 30, 2008 General

Pinching and parodying a line from Vinnie seems appropriate having spent the last day and night clearing email. I returned to over 350 emails. OK, so 129 relate to a project on which I’m working and don’t really need reading. But even so, clearing out the dross was tiresome (that got about 150 done pretty [...]

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The Chumby imperative

June 14, 2008 General

This is more about consumery stuff than business but I do believe there could be application. Before disappearing to Boston I stumbled across Chumby. It’s a wireless device that has a touch screen through which you can access information services via widgets you allocate to your Chumby via a computer terminal. The range of material [...]

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