Yeah I'm forever being asked for recommendations for web-based presentation software.

Who doesn't love getting up for a 7.30am meeting on a Monday morning only to have the person no show? 🙄

Happy Monday y'all.

Every MP pushing for a reduced university sector should be asked if they would like to close the one nearest their constituency.

Weeknote 20: Social Now (but now socialed out). Portuguese proverbs unearthed from the dark basement of my mind. And the usual digital workplace shiz.

sharonodea.com/2024/05/18/wee…

I wrote a thing about what went wrong with Workplace

This was super fun to do too. Thanks for inviting me to speak at #SocialNow

Important but rarely acknowledged point here at #SocialNow . It’s rarely an advantage if you’re a vendor’s biggest customer.

The 10th #SocialNow event is kicking off here in Lisbon with some useful lessons on management in a digital age from Andrew Pope 🌳

Another day, another airport lounge where I’m doing some slides at the last minute.

I hate to say “I told you so”* but I predicted Workplace would shut down by year end.

* this is a lie, I love nothing more than being right

techcrunch.com/2024/05/14/met…

Making Grant Schapps the Secretary of State for Defence sent a message to our adversaries too, and that message was “this country is deeply unserious about defence”.

No THIS is Hearsay

If there’s one thing one learns working in digital transformation it’s that “fresh thinking” is often synonymous with “throwing any old shit at the wall and hoping for the best”.

Sam’s (correct) point aside, the sense of national decline is not restricted to doomsters and cynics but is shared by anyone who has attempted to use public services and infrastructure over the past decade or so.

Man: throws himself in the seat I vacated purely to let an older woman loaded with shopping sit down
Me: I was trying to give my seat to her
Man: sorry
Me: if you're sorry get up and give her the seat
Man: *crickets*

Eurovision descending into farce.

(Europapa is a solid gold bop and I loved its 90s-European-integration-utopia-vibes lyrics).