My good friend Glen from Sub Lime is looking for people to come along to a free ‘thinking’ Breakfast at Green Park in Reading tmrw AM…
Find out about the Current Economic Climate and how it is affecting small businesses.
The headline speaker is Entrepreneur ‘Jamie Martin’ who was on the BBC show ‘Did they pay their mortgage off in 2 years”. You can see highlights on his YouTube channel.
The event is tomorrow (29th) and will start at 8:00 – 8:30 and finish at 10:00am – 10:30am.
Here is the agenda:
Welcome reception (Tea and coffee)
Introduction of Jamie Martin, Regus and Barclays
Results of questionnaire survey
Jamie Martin talks about success and failure in business.
Interviews Mike Garth, former engineer for Toyota F1
Barclays will provide expert knowledge about protecting your business during the economic downturn
Regus imparts their extensive knowledge of business overheads
Summary / Q&A
Networking – Free breakfast (bacon rolls), tea, coffee and fruit juice.
Live Prize Draw; Barclays Credit Management Tool for a year, Regus Business World Card and21 days free UK accommodation
Another great turn out last night for our 2nd Creative Assembly meeting. Thanks again to everyone who made it and for those that didn’t, not to worry because you can come and join us on Tuesday the 3rd of June! :)
Well we had our inaugural Creative Assembly meeting last night in the Atrium Bar at the South Hill Park Arts Centre. I was expecting a turnout of 6 or 7 people but I was blown away when 18 people turned up.
Thanks to everyone who made the effort to come along! :)
Ok, this ones been bubbling for some time now but today it’s boiled over. I’ve had it with news sites which (missing the point of the internet entirely) fail to provide inline links to relevant websites.
This is something I first noted over at the BBC. They write a piece which mentions a web site like Digg but rather than link to it inline, they put a link to the website over in a column on the right. This is a pain in the back side, it flies in the face of common sense and just infuriates the user.
Even worse though is the treatment of URLs within articles by Brand Republic. Not only do they fail to link to a publishers website within the body text but they even directly print a URL without making it clickable. This is nothing short of a complete disregard for the audience.
Why would I continue to use websites like the BBC and Brand Republic when the service they provide to the user can’t even embrace the most basic fundamentals of the web?
I can only imagine that this behaviour is dictated because the news provider in question feels that providing users with easy to access links ‘out’ to relevant information will somehow diminish their traffic.
This couldn’t be further from the truth. Make it easy for your users to ‘get at’ the information they’re after by placing it inline and they will feel that your website is more useful, relevant and worth revisiting. It’s not rocket science.
Seems there’s been a lot of buzz about this little game on the web, I’ve been a little late to give it a try but now I have, I’m totally addicted. It’s a ‘simple’(?) Flash based game where the objective is to ‘draw’ a course for the ‘Line Rider’ to ride (ahem).
‘Linerider Jumps the Shark’ (above) is perhaps the most incredible demonstration of what someone can acheive with a little patience. My attempts don’t even come close.
