Or, how to create your own site-hosted unsubscribe form using the Gravity Forms MailChimp Add-in. A technical post today, showing how I implemented this on The Buchan Institute’s website. MailChimp’s basic visual editor forms can be nicely formatted to look like most of your site, and have custom redirects for success pages. If however, like [...]
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Have just added the first in a series of articles on my use of PersonalBrain. Here is the first on Thought Types.
Two weeks ago I realised I had misplaced my Sandisk Cruzer 32GB USB drive. Confident there was no critical data on it I chalked it up to experience and purchased a replacement, the remarkable Sandisk Cruzer Blade 16GB. Why not buy a replacement that is 1/4 the physical dimensions of something you’ve just lost. Yesterday, [...]
The social media (twitter, facebook, LinkedIn) space can be confusing for many people in business. It is a new paradigm and picking the start point is difficult. To assist I’ve created a map of this new space as I see it. As you navigate around you’ll see the what, benefits, misconceptions, measurement and activity of [...]
It has been a month since I read The Secret to Digital Sanity by Shelley Hayduk, one of PersonalBrain’s regular authors. In the article she discusses the difference between capture tools such a PersonalBrain or Evernote and flow tools of which twitter and facebook are examples. The latter two deliver information not designed to be [...]
I’ve just set up another blog (more on that to come) and have been holding back from writing. It didn’t feel like the right place to put down any thoughts. Yesterday I got the look and feel as I wanted it and thought that perhaps blogging on-screen is just like writing on paper. You need [...]
If I’ve ever forgotten your birthday I’m sorry. Remembering them is something I don’t do all that well. Even when I remember I have slim chance of knowing how old you are. But now, thanks to Occassions on my iPhone, I should never miss your birthday again — assuming of course that I know it in [...]
An open loop is something which is pulling on your attention. I have a few from 2009 relating to Quantum Gardener which I will close today lest they fester and end up consuming more and more of my time. 50 book challenge (2009) In 2008 I successfully read 50 personal and self improvement books in a [...]
Tom Morris – Modern day philosopher. Every time I’ve been successful Tom’s 7 C’s of Success have all been in play. John Maxwell – Leadership mentor. An amazing knack (though hard work no doubt) of distilling leadership lessons into understandable pieces. Alan Sieler – Ontological coach. My coaching mentor and author of two excellent books [...]
Over the last two weeks I’ve been heavily involved in home maintenance on some of our home computers. This has included replacing hard drives, re-installing multiple operating systems and reconfiguring wireless networks. The exercise highlighted to me the importance of dealing with breakdowns. Now, I’m sure for most people the word breakdown has a negative [...]
