Tweet I removed the Twitter and FaceBook apps from my smartphone a few weeks ago. It feels great to be disconnected from the extraordinary madness of mobile crowds. Why? Well, in the case of Twitter it’s overrun with self-promotional noise. And I’ve found very few b2b tech marketing managers with the time to tweet regularly […]

Tweet Well, we’re coming up to Japan’s “Golden week” of holidays. Great name, except that there’s nothing golden about getting caught in what the media love to call the ’U-turn rush’ - where teeming millions find themselves in giant carparks known as ‘expressways’ on trying to return to Tokyo. And one more thing - it’s […]

Tweet I’ve just enrolled on the free ‘Content Strategy for Professionals‘ MOOC that begins on Jan 13th, 2014 and runs for six weeks. This one will be presented by Northwestern University faculty via the Coursera platform. (The MOOC acronym stands for ‘Massive Open Online Course’. It’s still early in the game but I suspect that next […]

Tweet Although the Greater Tokyo metro area is a teeming megalopolis of around 35 million people shoehorned into just 13,500 km2, I often forget how jam-packed the whole shebang is because most things run pretty much to order and public expectation. But set those numbers against the country of my birth, Northern Ireland (NI), with 1.8 […]

Robust economic growth in the BRIC countries is good news for IT networking companies, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region (think, India and China).