Online Communities

One Job, Many Spaces: Navigating a Monumental Societal Shift

Five Principles That Make Online Work Thrive – But Do You Agree? My then seven-year-old son, when asked about his parents’ professions, proudly declared,  ‘My mother works in a hospital, and my dad’s at the British Interplanetary Society.’  This innocent mix-up led his primary school to invite me to talk about space exploration. Imagine their

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Better ways of online collaboration

If your bosses are desperate to drag you back to the office, that doesn’t mean they’re nasty people. They may not realise that online can be better than in-the-room; that relationship-building and innovation can work brilliantly when remote – and that the ways you’ve been working for the last two years may not be the

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Online events: people over presentations

People, not presentations, make great online events. I think that’s pretty obvious. But it’s not obvious to everyone, apparently! Often, when I start working with a client to design their event, the draft plan involves loads of presentations. Maybe it’s because the organisers are so used to endless talk-over-slides webinars that they can’t imagine things

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