Yesterday saw the start of the World Athletics Championships at the Olympic Stadium in London. Leading athletes like Sir Mo Farah and Usain Bolt have been amongst the participants. And like all top sports people, they will have prepared for months for this event. Part of their preparation will have

There might not be a connection between these two things, but productivity in the UK is lower than most other top economies, AND the UK is the part of the world with one of the greatest amounts of Internet activity per head. Indeed, since we have started using the Internet

No doubt you have visited a website where there is a three-panel pricing grid, like the one above. You find them, for instance, on web hosting company sites where the firm offers three levels of service, each with different features. You can also find these price panels on membership sites

There are two types of social media these days. One is actually “social”, which is Facebook. It is where people chat to each other and be social. Usage statistics show that the amount of social activity happening on Facebook dwarfs what is going on with all the other supposedly “social

You probably think this is a strange question to ask, given that I am doing so in my weekly newsletter…! However, two things have happened in the past week that has meant the whole notion of newsletters is being questioned. The first thing that made people question email newsletters is

This week the iPhone turned ten years old. When it was launched, it was nothing compared with today’s devices. At the time the iPhone was first introduced, leading experts and industry leaders all rounded on Apple saying they had invented something that wasn’t necessary and which had no future. Even

Your website – indeed your whole media presence, including social media – depends upon “content”. This will include articles, blog posts, images, videos, podcasts, infographics, slideshows and polls, to name just a few.  If you write a blog post just once a week, your words will be amongst the 15m

The past few month have not been the best in Britain, have they? We’ve had terrorist attacks, an indecisive election exposing significant divisions in our society, and now the dreadful Grenfell Tower fire. Yet amongst all the problems, one thing has shone through. Whether it was in Manchester, or Borough

Thank you for opening this email; I appreciate it. I know that this is just one of hundreds of emails you will receive today and so I am grateful that you chose to open mine. Typically, each of us now receives 300 emails per day. The average office worker is