#25 Weekend reads – a change really is as good as a holiday
I’ve been doing my weekend reads for nearly six months and it seems people are valuing it, which is awesome. I took a week off this week
#24 Weekend reads – a week of the blues
I’ve found it hard this week and admit to being a bit blue. A sign of the times for sure, but it’s impossible for this situation not to get on top of you!
The state of our planet 2020 – a few highlights so far
The COVID19 pandemic is not the only crisis we face. The last decade was earth’s hottest on record. Since 1970, we have lost 68% of the population size of mammals, birds, fish, amphibians and reptiles.
#23 Weekend reads – a fly and women’s extra mile
Did you ever think we would live in a world where the global news focused on a fly? Not only that, we now have multiple Twitter handles
#22 Weekend reads – well that’s a turn of events…
What a week in the news!! First we have Trump’s tax returns; then Brad Parscale has a meltdown; followed by a shambolic first debate with Joe Biden
If you don’t like social media, here’s three things you can do about it
My overarching feeling is The Social Dilemma missed something really really important. The human aspect.
#21 Weekend Reads – keep the faith my friends, keep the faith
The RBG news went from sorrow, to outrage, to fear and then political momentum started to move in the right direction faster than I’ve ever seen it happen before.
#20 Weekend reads – RIP Ruth Bader Ginsburg, respect
It was heartbreaking waking to the news that RBG has left us. But what a lady? What a legacy!
#19 Weekend reads – a week of rest after months of focus
Something that has always helped me stay positive, engaged, hopeful and energized is to get busy.
Why purpose, intention and love must be at the center of influence today
If you are ready to stand up for what you believe in, now is the time to put your brave boy/girl pants on and do it
8 tips for managing email communication better
To keep the honest feedback flowing, another bug bear I’d like to highlight is email. Remember the days when email was manageable?
#18 Weekend reads – exhausted, elated, happy
After more than a year of work, a team of 22 volunteers delivered a five-day digital Convention – The Asia Professional Speakers Convention 2020.
#17 Weekend reads – hope one week, madness the next
It was to be expected. A week highlighting a parallel universe in the United States, and of course, I’m talking about
#16 Weekend reads – a little bit of hope cracked through
Do you know what I heard this week? Words of love. Of hope, possibility, passion, purpose, unity and light.
#15 Weekend reads, free at last, I’m free at last
My kids went back to school this week – hallelujah!! It’s been nearly six months since they’ve been home, and overall, it’s been a really positive experience for all of us.
When did WhatsApp become a collaboration tool? Hint, it’s not
WhatsApp is not a collaboration tool! It’s a messaging app and it’s absolutely useless when it comes to collaboration.
Are you taking the time to reflect and consider our collective future? An invitation…
Of course it’s not easy to do when fear is so thick in the air.
#14 Weekend reads – another intense week in the news, ugh!
The blast in Beirut was devastating. You can’t imagine that happening where you live, especially if you’ve never lived in a war zone. Of course,
#13 Weekend reads – and the adventure comes to an end
The North is empty. The doors are shuttered and every day new ‘for rent’ and ‘for sale’ signs are going up. Some of the business owners I spoke with said they would be extremely challenged to make it until Christmas if this isn’t over.
#12 Weekend reads – drought in the tropics, we really going to keep ignoring that?
This year – 2020 – is a tough year for many reasons, but it’s also the year Thailand tackles its worst drought in 40 years!! I can not express how alarming it is when the wettest region in the world – the tropics – experiences drought
What’s an Infodemic? How do you manage it?
An Infodemic is when we experience an overload of information – which is usually false or unverified (non-peer-reviewed) information – and it’s a common reality during a crisis, which is why a pandemic ignites a Infodemic.
#11 Weekend reads – greetings from Northern Thailand
How can I get out in the middle of a pandemic you might ask? Well I live in Thailand and it’s been seven weeks since any cases of community transmission.
#10 Weekend reads – putting the environment back on top
I don’t know about you, but I can accept the fact we’re in a pandemic and everything that comes with it, my struggle is in the idiocy we’re seeing around the world.
What is social leadership?
A social leader takes a firm stance around an issue they care passionately about. They are driven by a strong desire to inspire change, improve lives, or they just want to make people smile.
#9 Weekend reads – have we all finally woken up to the reality of COVID19?
Surely this was the week we saw global acceptance of the huge challenges facing us in overcoming the pandemic? Of course there will always be those who doubt what is right in front of their eyes, but the majority is what matters, right?
#8 Weekend reads – and COVID19 is back to the top of the headlines
COVID19 is back at the top of the headlines, as the US witnesses flareups across the county. I’ve got to be honest. The way this is being discussed in America…
#7 Weekend reads – tentative freedom and chaos seems to be the order of the day
On the one hand, many countries opening up have citizens who have done the hard yards to eradicate COVID19, by following extreme measures. It’s not over in many of these countries, but they have a better sense of where they are, and a commitment to doing what is needed to end the crisis in their countries.
A climate leadership call-to-arms for marketing professionals
More than 11,000 scientists from all over the world came together with 25 years of data, showing us the world is heading towards catastrophic outcomes for all life on planet earth, and for humans “untold suffering.”
The human impact of COVID-19, Burmese Workers Camp, Phuket Town
A day visiting and sharing food at Burmese workers camps in Phuket Town, Thailand, end of May 2020.
#6 Weekend Reads – great progress and thoughtful content to dig into
This week, the content around #BlackLivesMatter has become deeper and more reflective. There are people across whole swathes of society thinking about racism in a much deeper way. It feels like real change is possible.
#5 Weekend reads – another intense week in the news
The news has been overwhelming these last few months especially, and then this week happened!!
#4 Weekend reads – and the craziness continues…
What a week of news! It feels like civil war is closer than ever in the US, and on the other side of the world here in Asia Pacific, slowly, slowly, some semblance of normality is coming back.
How to maximize LinkedIn’s new Featured Section
If you haven’t noticed – and there’s a chance you won’t if you haven’t put images and links in your About section on LinkedIn before – but a short while back, the visual content that originally existed as part of your About section, is now broken out into a new section, called Featured.
#3 Weekend reads – and some thoughts on depression + a global viewpoint
Hi everyone, writing to you from the end of my 10th week in quarantine, and while the early weeks saw me lost in the story
#2 Weekend reads – some articles and videos to get you up to date
It appears my first weekend reads was valued, so here we go with week two. I always read far and wide, which I encourage everyone
#1 Weekend reads – what I’ve been reading this week and a bit more
Knowledge is power, and far reaching reading habits – across multiple sources and platforms – is critical if we want to understand the world and what is happening.
What separates successful social leaders from the rest of the pack in the time of Covid-19?
This article aims to help contribute to the collective conversation in meaningful ways, and demonstrate how to serve your audience and solidify your social leadership for this time.
The whole world is communicating, what do we see, how should we be?
One of the reasons I have always LOVED social media, is because I get to watch how people communicate, across all the topics I care
18 Steps to an All-Star LinkedIn Profile is free as an ebook on Amazon Kindle
I want to help in this time of crisis, and one thing I can do is offer my newly published book – “18 Steps to
Until it’s under control everywhere, it’s not under control anywhere
Until it’s under control everywhere, it’s not under control anywhere. That is the truth of COVID-19, so let’s work together!!
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