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Tag Archives: fail
Social media lesson #83
Is: if everyone hates you, don’t try and be their friend. (Click for bigger, or see the full car crash in realtime.)
Posted in Oh dear, Social Networking
Tagged brand, facebook, fail, nestle, Social Networking
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Whoopsie
Apologies if you have been confronted by a nonsensical post full of error messages from this site – something went wrong with my automated bookmark posting thingumy. Anyway, hopefully it won’t happen again. Update: it happened again. Sorry.
Why Projects Fail: Obstacles and Solutions
Michael Krigsman’s blog, IT Project Failures, is well worth subscribing to. He recently shared a really interesting slidedeck on how projects can go wrong, and how it can be avoided: Why Projects Fail: Obstacles and Solutions View more documents from … Continue reading
Posted in Presentation
Tagged fail, failure, it, project management, projects, technology
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Bookmarks for March 16th through March 18th
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. comment.ofqual.gov.uk – Lovely commentable document style consultations from Ofqual MINDSPACE: Influencing behaviour through public policy – Institute for Government – "Influencing behaviour through public policy explores how behaviour change theory … Continue reading →