The claustrophobic elevatorMy Dad could never take the lift, it was the claustrophobia, the confinement of sharing that little box with other people trying not to look at each other hoping they would be elevated to the next level and the doors would open to save them from human connection. I have a claustrophobic reaction to...
Category: relationships
Do you frighten off your customers with pop ups?
I remember the early days of the Internet when at Christmas time some whizz-bang scripting guru had worked out how to have snow falling down a web page. There was a similar effect with leaves drifting down the page in Autumn. It was cool for a few seconds and then it became the most annoying...
750 Staples of Inspiration
Catchy title hey? Well I was inspired to write this blog post while I was making a batch of personalised notebooks; and these are handmade notebooks. I staple the spines, each with 3 staples. So you’re getting to grips with the reason for the title. I love the creative process of making notebooks by hand,...
Building Relationships at Social Media Summit
Just another conference eh? So you’ve been to conferences before and you sit in the audience listening to the speakers who have come to talk at you. How did it make you feel? Was it like uncomfortable us-and-them relationships? Did it remind you of being back at school in teacher-student mode? A dream conference? Wouldn’t...