If you’ve been following our blog you’ll be well aware that we’re looking to grow. Growth is a funny thing because you’d think that any growth is good growth, but you’d be wrong. There are right ways to grow and wrong ways to grow. Right now we’re looking for growth that promotes creativity, passion and impeccable work.
In my search for positive ways to grow I came across Glimmer, a book about how design thinking can change your world. This book was strongly based around Bruce Mau and his incomplete manifesto for growth and for good reason, I believe any person could look at this list of of insightful introspective instructions and find something positive to apply to themselves or their organisation. I know I did… Continue Reading »
When we started iThnk it was just a bita fun. We felt that we had some pretty good ideas and that if we shared them maybe someone would listen. It was easy to love the job in the beginning, Andy and I would just work on whatever part of a project was needed.
All this changed when we started making money, not big money but money nonetheless. Now we’re super busy and we’re trying to define our areas of expertise and the tasks that make up our roles.
This is one of the hardest things to do (well in my experience anyway) because I just want to be involved in everything. But it’s at the point where it’s 100% necessary to divide up our energy to increase efficiency and maintain personal sanity. Every company has to do this sort soul searching breakdown of responsibilities but from what I’ve seen the guidelines on how to do this are pretty crap. Continue Reading »
Recently I was a bit under the weather, I was confined to sitting on the couch flicking through day time television and surfing the web. In my surfing I delved into the depths of Facebook Fan pages as we’re looking to revamp ours soon. Rather than being a greedy information hog I thought I’d share all that I’ve found so that you can start your own pimping Facebook page.
Do You Have A Facebook Page?
If not, here’s a few posts about why you should have one…
If you do, have you pimped it out yet? The list of resources detailed in this post should help you sexy up that dull lack lustre FB page of yours. Continue Reading »
This is the anti post blog post, the sort of ironic post that explains why there is no post today.
I’ve got about 20mins before I’ve gotta go out, so I’ll try to explain as much as I can about why there is no post.
Lately I’ve been burning the candle, and pushing hard on all fronts. I’m working on an exciting project in my day job, trying hard to grow iThnk, exploring new ideas for TEDxDunedin, commenting on one blog per day and trying to help as many people as I can.
The problem with all of these projects and activities is that as much as I try to structure them into my life in a workable way whenever one project goes over time it throws everything out of whack. Not so long ago I wrote a post about my new structure to help me achieve a great work life balance - I still believe this structure will work, but I need to know where my time goes as well. Continue Reading »
Last month I hit a minor milestone – my 3000th tweet. Ok so I’m not as prolific as some tweeps but my time on Twitter has been more than fruitful – so fruitful in fact that I had to write a post to help me take stock of all that had happened since I started on Twitter. 
The conclusion of my reflection was that it was all about connections. So I guess that’s why it alarms me when I see posts like Dan Schwables “RIP Twitter as a marketing platform“.
Dan’s premise for this bold claim is that there is more clutter due to the huge number of users on Twitter. Essentially he is saying that everyone is broadcasting and no one is listening, or as Gavin Heaton recently said in a comment here on iThnk without interaction we’re all just shouting into the wind.
On the flip side, in a great mashable post from March this year they examined a new study from security firm Barracuda Labs. The results don’t back up Dan Schwables claims about the clutter on Twitter, the stats say that most of its users aren’t very active at all.
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Lately I’ve started being more active in commenting on other peoples blogs and as a result a number of positive things have happened…
- I’ve been reading more blogs and therefore been exposed to a lot of amazing perspectives that I otherwise might not have come across.
- I’ve had some engaging conversations with bloggers and other commenters.
- We’ve also received more comments here at iThnk.com and our site stats have gone up (just a bit).
- We’ve also had someone who neither Andy or I know personally approach us about guest posting on our site.
So what’s the problem?
The problem is the time involved. Reading loads of posts until something sparks your interest enough to sit there and craft a well thought our comment is an enjoyable but incredibly inefficient use of time.
So what’s the solution?
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