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The Art of Innovation – Guy Kawasaki at Gartner Barcelona

1) Make Meaning… not money Make the world a better place. When you are building something ask yourself “is this making the world a better place?” 2) Make Mantra Most people come up with a Mission Statement. Most mission statements are developed through the following process. 50 senior employees have an off site week. This […]

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The Web Is Thursday night playlist

One of the great things about The Web Is conference is the sideshows. This year on the Thursday night there’s a musical get together at the Founders Hub. Apparently there are plenty of instruments for people to join in with, you just need to learn Walk (Foo Fighters) and 20th Century Boy (T. Red).

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Creating content in less than 5 minutes a day

Creating content is one of the hardest things to do when it comes to having a website or a blog. I’m going to share with you the easiest way to create great content daily on your site and across a series of social networks in under 5 minutes.

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Delete Google Analytics Properties

Over the past few years I’ve picked up more than my fair share of domain names, and along with them Google Accounts. It’s recently got so bad that I can’t actually add any more GA accounts any more.

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Work Writing

Permission errors when using sudo

Sudo is usually the command that gets me past any permission issues on the server or my Mac. Usually.

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Work Writing

Designing a Mobile App

Mobile apps go through a variety of what I would refer to as “Design” stages. In this article I”m not talking about the visual design of the application, that’s certainly not where my skills lie, but instead I’m talking about the functional design of the application, the user experience and the data required to make […]

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Creating Flows for better User Experience

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Chaining pseudo selectors

I’ve been working on a sales dashboard for work that highlights the number of sales, number of meeting, contribution to the overall targets and a few other things that make a member of the sales team proud they’re hitting their targets. The layout requirements I had for this part of the dashboard was Zebra background […]

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Responsive Design is still hard/easy — Dan Mall

During the 2014 Beyond Tellerand Conference Dan Mall shared his tips and tricks on how to work smarter in todays responsive world. Henry Ford: 1907 : A motor car for the great multitude. He had a dream that everyone should have access to a motor car. He created an auto line assembly. Moving line assembly […]

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Content in a Zombie apocalypse

@karenmcgrane – president of the WYSIWYG haters club Print is amazing, you put the words on the paper and there it stays. No updates. We’re fine. 100 of years of printing press history, thousand of years of experience in written material. The web was created to allow anyone to update a URL from anywhere and […]