Category: General

Blog post from a cyclist in Nairobi on helmet hair.

Although i don’t need to cope with tropical temperatures on my bicycle commute… wearing a beanie below my helmet, to keep my ears warm, leads to all kinds of unintended and new hair-dos.

I always joke that I’ll write a bestseller on #helmet #hair.

Recommended read.

Source: David Bauer’s weekly newsletter.

Too many LOLcats and caturdays in your Twitter or Facebook stream? Replace them with beautiful dog photos with this Chrome extension called Rather!

20 Ways To Get Your Content In Front Of Early-Stage B2B Buyers

Sometimes you hear the argument, social media is great for B2C but not B2B. This article lists ways to use social media for B2B marketing.

But notice also the recommendation to use traditional tools such as press releases and email newsletters.

I worked on two Scrum projects this year.

In one of them I was the Product Owner. I think this check list is helpful.

I stumbled across this article on big data and marketing.

In a nutshell, it says try stuff and measure what works. And AIDA is back in a big way.

Here’s a screenshot:

Too funny.

I like:

“also I notice that you are not using bold or italics properly in
your SEO optimization”

Blogging isn’t dead (yet).

Here are my slides from long ago:

Remember: Your economic situation isn’t everything.

It is the worst country when it comes to making friends (37th), and scores poorly among expats for social life (33rd), making local friends (32nd), entertainment (32nd), local work culture (30th) and learning the local language (32nd).

Expat explorer

Despite Twitter’s handling of third party apps and API changes, some tools are still around or re-emerging.

Noteworthy:

If you don’t know what a hashtag means, go to Tagdef.
http://tagdef.com/
Long time ago, Twitter client Brizzly used to do this.

I briefly clicked into Tagboard. It looks like a useful search tool.
http://tagboard.com/