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November 11, 2009

Tip for Multiple hat wearing "web workers"

A relatively obvious tip but a tip nonetheless... For those of an independent, freelance or "business polymath" types who undertake a fair amount of productivity online in the world of a wide web I share this..

I for one have the hats of "Me Inc", Strawberryway, Fiwave and Earth.org to wear every day... Each their own mail accounts, doc hubs etc etc

To make my desktop easier there are two tips:

1) Have a tabbed browser window for each hat - e.g. I have one Safari window for Strawberryway and one for Fiwave etc Within each are multiple tabs but only in relation to that organisation's activities

2) If you're on OS X / Linux then you can extend the above tip and place each window in to it's own desktop / space so that you can be focused on each organisation in turn

Following this tip allows having everything open and accessible for quick switching but eases the pain of info overload

Simple tip, kthxbai :)

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October 13, 2009

Online experts recession proof?

So as far as I know there has been and continues to be a recession affecting a vast proportion of the global economy including home here in the UK.

This has meant challenging times and forcing companies to work with less capital and less revenue. All in all not great.

The hope is that things will pick up and sales will lift as demand comes back etc etc

This is apparently our current operating climate.

I say apparently as it seems those in the design / media / PR / web presence sectors (forgive my sweeping catch all but you get the idea of the ilk I'm referring to) seem to not need new business therefore one can only assume they're recession proof.

I come to this conclusion given that over the last six months or so I have probably met, on average, around two people in one of those sectors a week.

How many of them do you think went to any of my sites, pointed out their obvious medicority and suggested how they would make it better?!

Answer = 0

Maybe I'm just being dumb but if I was a web presence expert and I made a contact, one of the things at the top of my list would be... CHECK THEIR CURRENT WEB PRESENCE.

If it wasn't up to scratch in my opinion then I would be pitching for that contacts business.

But that hasn't happened so I can only assume, those in web / design / brand / PR etc just don't need the sales as they're recession proof.

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