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Re: Building Community with Benjamin Ellis

BenjaminEllis — Sun, 24 Sep 2017 09:30:02 -0000

Thank you Anime.

Re: Building Community with Benjamin Ellis

BenjaminEllis — Sun, 24 Sep 2017 09:29:46 -0000

Hello Rukaiya, that would be me. You can find me at https://benjaminellis.org/

Re: Fake signatures found on second EU referendum petition

BenjaminEllis — Tue, 28 Jun 2016 05:24:30 -0000

UK Citizens living outside of the UK have the right to submit petitions to parliament, so it is entirely possible to have votes from outside of the UK (though not 40,000 from the Vatican of course, which has a population of 842!). The data is available to download and analyse as a JSON file, and looks coherent, and the system does now appear to have a number of checks that would stop bot-traffic.

Re: "The issue is not the original commitment; it’s the infinite number of re-commitments."

BenjaminEllis — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 11:52:22 -0000

Nice quote - who/where is it from?

Re: View Inheritance in Backbone

BenjaminEllis — Sat, 20 Dec 2014 13:16:24 -0000

Don't forget that Backbone.View.Extend takes two parameters:

(protoProps, staticProps) so you can choose what goes into the prototype.

Re: Eric Hynds

BenjaminEllis — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 04:54:22 -0000

Backbone's .extend method takes two arguments, the first extends the prototype, the second is for statics: BaseView.extend({ initialize: ... }, { subviews: {} }); - does that help?

Re: New Sales Pipeline Management Research - Guest Post

BenjaminEllis — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 16:01:18 -0000

When you say "performed best" what do you mean? For a sales pipeline, bigger generally means better - more opportunities means more revenue. That also means more to discuss, so that is going to take longer. Similarly, if the sales pipeline is poor, that means few opportunities and little to discuss. So is the amount of time spent just a result of the size of the pipeline, or does the data suggest that those that spend more time discussing a smaller pipeline actually perform better?

Re: Deep to Deep — October 2013 Report

BenjaminEllis — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 04:48:26 -0000

Really sorry to miss it - I will keep an eye out for the next one!

Re: Better task management and more cloud please

BenjaminEllis — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:11:56 -0000

You are sounding like a candidate for a chromebook :).

Task management is one of the hardest nuts in the world to crack, simply because it intersects with everything we do (it's task management after all :) ) - but we get inputs from everything in the world. As soon as we use multiple systems, we can't intuitively prioritise, but if we don't use multiple systems, we can't prioritise everything.

Just to make it worse, as we get to grips with a good time or task management methodology, our behaviour naturally changes. It is the original "Wicked Problem" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... - a system that gets you organised, won't keep you organised, and a system that keeps you organised won't get you organised. And that's from a guy who builds work management systems! :)

Re: Chinwag Psych overview - May 2013 | BLOOM Social Business

BenjaminEllis — Fri, 17 May 2013 09:03:33 -0000

Thank you for the write up John! I've written up the notes from my talk, if people want to read further than the slides: Human Big Data

Re: Discover your LinkedIn Start Date and LinkedIn User ID

BenjaminEllis — Sun, 05 May 2013 05:01:09 -0000

Member since August 29, 2003, number: 20581 - Looks like they were adding about 5-10,000 per month at that point.

Re: We apologise for the interruption to service - Cognitive Edge Network Blog

BenjaminEllis — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 07:31:18 -0000

Sounds fairly infuriating! I hope you get it all resolved - three parties always makes for a complicated business transaction!

Re: BenConf: Randomness and Bens - Ben Summers’ Blog

BenjaminEllis — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 04:12:26 -0000

I'll second that. Superb!

Re: Event News: Deep to Deep, October 2012

BenjaminEllis — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 13:06:39 -0000

I'm ready to program My GPS. If anyone is en-route from Camberley/Bracknell area and wants a lift, let me know!

Re: Google to add your emails into your search results

BenjaminEllis — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 05:08:18 -0000

From the people that brought you Google+? ;)

Re: Event News: Deep to Deep, October 2012

BenjaminEllis — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 04:35:48 -0000

Looking forward to getting along for the first time in many years! Be great to see faces, old and new alike!

Re: Why You Should Pay Attention to Node.Js

BenjaminEllis — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:11:55 -0000

That should, of course, be 19 months!

Re: Why You Should Pay Attention to Node.Js

BenjaminEllis — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:08:11 -0000

It's interesting, just 9 months or so down the line, quite how it is continuing to gather momentum. So many benefits in tooling and skills for people developing ajax applications. The number of new libraries and tools for node seems to be growing every week.

Re: A reflection on 2011

BenjaminEllis — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 08:08:11 -0000

Welcome to plural land :) New territories to chart, new rules to fathom, but much fun and discovery to be had. Here's to 2012.

Re: What’s the plan?

BenjaminEllis — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:51:30 -0000

Love it! Sage advice. Far too many people use the planning backwards idea (it is what got us started on http://milestoneplanner.com/). Take your vision, make it specific (mission), make it achievable (objectives) then break those objectives into key milestones, then break those down into actions. Amazing how much you can achieve when you do that.

Re: Google to to run digital marketing 'apprenticeships' - Leadership, business and management news, tips and features from MT and Management Today magazine

BenjaminEllis — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 04:45:07 -0000

That's one view. A much more likely one is that Google wants to ensure that Digital new hires in the industry are more comfortable with their platform than any other, and view the world as Google does. It's commercial genius on their part. The rest is just PR spin. See through it.

Re: this is actually happening

BenjaminEllis — Sun, 29 May 2011 19:04:01 -0000

Beautiful. This is a perfect quote for those of us who are grappling with helping businesses get to grips with social media (and I mean actually doing it, rather than just tweeting about it ;) ). People are already doing it. It isn't the future. It is actually happening. Right Now.

And so true for anything people describe as the future - 90% of the time they've seen it already. So, by definition, it IS happening already.

(yes, I did just start a paragraph with 'and' - it's the future, I'm telling you ;) ).

Re: Audience & community can co-exist

BenjaminEllis — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 07:33:06 -0000

Thank you Ann (for folks looking for my post, it is here: A perspective on community). It's really helpful seeing things set out in a table.

There is a third, middle, column, which is where many businesses seem to end up: Interactive. An 'audience' style set up, where people can provide direct feedback. Many businesses seem to struggle to realise that an audience with feedback is not a community - It's the power of the networked connections that provide the transformative native of communities.

However, adding a mechanism for the audience to give feedback is a very good starting point!

Re: Can StartUp Britain kick-start growth? - Leadership, business and management news, tips and features from MT and Management Today magazine

BenjaminEllis — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:41:19 -0000

Not only are the names on the site big businesses, most of them aren't even from Britain! So much for the "living market place"

Re: Crowdsourcing – its a long way from the suggestion box!

BenjaminEllis — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 11:18:34 -0000

Thank you for sharing your notes Ann! Sorry to have missed this one - sounds like it was a good discussion!