When you want to own your audience, build relationships, and connect with people, nothing beats an email newsletter. Here’s my talk from Web Directions Summit, 2023, exploring some great examples of email newsletters and what we can learn from them.
OK, sure.
But sometimes a band-aid solution is exactly what is needed. For grazes, scrapes, or things which are not even really a problem at all but where a gesture of assistance feels good.
Plenty of …
Doris Lessing was famously sick of winning by the time she won the Nobel Prize.
An effective customer-facing team is one that is:
- empowered: they have the authority and the access to take the required steps, based on their good judgment.
- well trained: they have the opportunity …
The older I get, the more I am accepting of the way my brain seems to prefer to work. I try to look at the shiny tools and appreciate them as nice design artifacts, not magic fixes.
The trick is in …
I would not want the job of CEO (rest easy Nick Francis). So much pressure to hit the numbers and “move the needle” in the short term. Even when you know in your heart and your mind that …
I need to say sorry.
Sorry to the people I hired when they didn’t have the right skills to thrive in the role.
And the people who had the skills but with a mindset that didn’t mesh with …
Artifical intelligence is not actually intelligent, and OpenAI is not particularly open about how they operate.
The first known library in the world was Ashurbanipal’s. It was in Nineveh (near modern day Mosul, in Iraq) in the 7th century BC. Ashurbanipal was a King of Assyria, and he collected thousands …
Some days, you wake up feeling great and genuinely wanting to help people. Other days, in customer service you have to go full Eleanor Rigby, wearing a face you keep in a jar by the door.
If you’re lucky, you work somewhere that lets you show your real face to your colleagues. It’s where we all belong.