The Governance Partnership

Keep it real, keep it manageable, keep it valuable

Liam Dempsey — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:15:45 GMT

Late last week I received an email notifying me that I had a new follower on Twitter. As I was busy, I left it until the end of the day to read. I then saw that my new follower was an ‘online marketing guru’ with a following of something like 18,000 people; his own following is about 21,000. I think this ‘social media guru’ is all wrong in his approach to followers.

Only little birdies should go tweet, tweet, tweet

Ross Davies — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:59:19 GMT

Human beings create an ever-evolving digital technology, which in turn shapes the way human beings communicate. Yet individual careers and corporate reputations suffer because in one respect the evolution of human beings – except those who create the technology – lags behind that of the technology that’s supposed to be our servant. But once that gap is acknowledged, it’s easily and quickly bridged.

Self-checks for spelling that smells

Peter Hill — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:38:11 GMT

Computer spell check is indispensable but can be irritating – if, for example, you write in English rather than American, and Microsoft’s American English spell check would prefer you to write ‘honor’ rather than ‘honour’ and so on.

UK politicians' profitable swansongs

Ross Davies — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:19:51 GMT

The more detested a British politician is in his or her own country, it seems, the more popular he or she becomes overseas. A recent article in London’s The Sunday Times reported a secondhand bookseller as refusing a free copy of Gordon Brown’s latest book ‘as it would not sell’. Beyond the Crash is the former British Prime Minister’s recipe for sorting out the world after the 2008 crash.

Download of a 35-Minute Man

Ross Davies — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:31:20 GMT

‘Apple, Google, Samsung, Motorola, Nokia, and the rest must be delighted’, The Governance Partnership’s Peter Hill wrote in this slot of Londoners’ insatiable craving for e-communication. Well, these manufacturers are also delighted to know it isn’t just the British capital.