Blowing your own trumpet

I am sure most of you will have heard the phrase “blowing your own trumpet”. For those of you that don’t it is when you take the opportunity to promote yourself, to tell everyone about something great that you have accomplished. I find it difficult to do this, I feel uncomfortable as I think I would come across as being arrogant and no-one would want to speak to me again. I should really stop...

What do you have as your homepage and why?

I have asked this question on twitter and thought that I’d post it here as well to catch anyone that might not using twitter. What do you have as your homepage and why? For years I have had google as my homepage as I tend to do quite a bit of searching on the internet. So over to you feel free to post in the comments below or reply to me on twitter @wizard1974uk

Gary Vaynerchuk

What can I say about this guy that everyone hasn’t already said? This guy could motivate a rock to move with his enthusiasm and his love for the hustle. I have been on twitter for over a year and hadn’t used it much until I came across Gary from a blog post from somewhere telling us to check him out, so I checked out a couple of his videos and I was hooked. In the past month my activity on twitter has...

You know you’ve been using twitter too long…

… when on tweetdeck you know who’s tweet it is by just looking at their profile picture. Yes I have got to that stage that I don’t have to look at a tweeters name to know who’s tweeting. Has anyone else got to that stage yet?

Sidebars – Leftie or Rightie

Does anyone else have a strange quirk where they prefer a sidebar on the left or the right of a web page and it can make a site really uncomfortable for someone to view? On some sites I like the sidebar to the left as long as I don’t have to scroll to the right to see all of the information and some sites I love a right hand side bar? Or am I the only one?