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Re: A Look Inside My Office Dashboards

Farhan Rehman — Mon, 15 May 2017 22:02:19 -0000

Awesome dashboards! What range/period do you track and monitor?
Do you ever remove content that doesn't achieve sufficient levels of engagement/interaction for you?
Also - what's the long term objective you're working towards? Is it more tailored towards traffic back to site? Or towards engagement on platform?

Also - have you thought of using an independent/third party URL tracking tool?

Re: Exercise: a requirement for sleep?

Farhan Rehman — Mon, 27 Jun 2016 04:29:10 -0000

Hmmm.. I'd love to get to the point where that becomes my challenge.. Gotta get into the routines, disciplines, and rituals to allow that to become a possibility! So @Joel Gascoigne how is life now? 6 years on? How is that balance/split? Did you find something that works consistently for you?

Re: You need to set a page title

Farhan Rehman — Thu, 22 May 2014 09:15:29 -0000

They're the best bank in the world, and I think they have a great mobile app too!!

Re: The different ways of traveling

Farhan Rehman — Sun, 27 Apr 2014 18:38:14 -0000

For me, living somewhere is the only real way to travel!! Spending a few days, visiting somewhere can be nice.. But until you live there you don't get the real sense of local culture, and the real flavour of what life is like in a place.. So happy for you that you've been able to create that lifestyle for yourself, and that you're reaping the benefits of all that hard work, and hard graft when you started! Absolutely love your approach to it all. Yet another great example of pro-actively exploring, and redefining what it means to have a work/life balance! Keep on pioneering Joel!

Re: Social Business thought leader Andrew Grill joins IBM Interactive

Farhan Rehman — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 20:18:11 -0000

Congratulations on the new role! Look forward to watching you create waves in the world of IBM! When do you start the new role?

Re: From 0 to 1,000,000 users: The Journey and Statistics of Buffer

Farhan Rehman — Sat, 28 Sep 2013 20:57:06 -0000

Congratulations!! What a great accomplishment guys!! Look forward to watching you grow to ever higher heights!! Would love to be able to 'thread' or 'pipe' social platforms, or different accounts together, so that a post can be published on Facebook, and that facebook status update be tweeted directly, rather than the same message being posted everywhere, with no connection between the updates...

Re: Cup 19

Farhan Rehman — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:50:13 -0000

Interesting - it reminds me of the analogy of not tightening the strings of a violin too tight, or too slack, else the music wouldn't be right - but when you have the 'right' tension, then it sounds 'just right' - it's that same balance in life.. Thanks for that very timely reminder - I really would have not paid enough attention to it, had it not been for reading this now ;) Thanks!

Re: Very early stage thinking around Perceptive Media

Farhan Rehman — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:10:33 -0000

It's definitely interesting to hear about even the possibilities of what Perceptive Media and Perceptive Audio might be, even if there isn't the technological prototypes and demonstrations to work with in the space. It sounds like the kind of concept that could produce some really interesting hacks, and developments, as pet projects, and through hackathons, and 10% projects, on the side..
Look forward to hearing more about your thoughts, and ideas and concepts, as they get more and more solidified. The more often you share, the quicker you can get feedback, and iterate on something simpler, that you know there will be an audience for!
An exciting frontier of technology indeed ;)

Re: Integrated online and physical retail

Farhan Rehman — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:02:22 -0000

The online/offline integration, is almost definitely the way forward. There's a limit to how much you can sample a product 'virtually', or through reviews, and recommendations online, and sooner or later, you need to see the product in physical form. There is however that dance between doing all your research online, and wanting to go into a store, to actually take a look at the goods/items that you're going to buy. Within the more tech/geek communities, first mover advantages were translated into the kudos that comes with having the newest gadget first, but then also translated as opportunities for more like minded geeks and individuals to get their hands on the product, before deciding whether to buy the product or not. As more people do their research, and go into stores better equipped with specific and detailed questions, the onus is going to be on the store staff to up their game in terms of product knowledge, and enhanced in store experience, for a customer to be converted from a visitor checking out a physical product to actually wanting to buy it right there and then in the store..

It's exciting to see how this trend will start to surface, and how the shopping/retail interface with consumers will need to adapt/evolve to continue to draw in the crowds both online and offline, as price is never going to be the only reason why people buy.

Re: I Think I May Have Just Experienced The Future… | Social Enterprise Today

Farhan Rehman — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:55:58 -0000

It may be more to do with the relative size of the country, and the investment by companies like Nokia into the countries infrastructure (I'm guessing), as well as the experience of Linux being developed out of Finland, that all contributed to the country being such a pioneer on that front, and making the appropriate levels of investment into the public internet infrastructure there.

Re: http://cgiorgi.tumblr.com/post/15185886344

Farhan Rehman — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 12:01:15 -0000

Congratulations on the personal goal ;) And look forward to hearing more about the professional one! Can't wait to chat to you more about it..

Re: Entering 2012 With Gusto

Farhan Rehman — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 02:56:20 -0000

Hey Bernie, indeed.. I'll be sharing some more thoughts around this over the next few weeks, especially as I've been reading some really interesting research and studies around the area of success, and talent development. Key thing is, failure is a neccessary part of the learning process, and often times, we don't fail often enough, to be able to truly learn. By playing it safe, and only going to the edges of our comfort zone, rather than pushing ourselves out beyond them, we limit our potential to develop new skills, or competences that are only possible through consciously pushing the envelope.

If you can make 1000 failed telesales calls, chances are if you genuinely tried to succeed, and failed that many times, you'll have learnt a tremendous amount more than if you fixated on the successes you were after, and ultimately, stopped trying, because you thought you didn't have the right skill or competence. Naivete, and comfort in being able to fail, are so important in allowing us to be able to develop and grow in terms of our skills and competence, just look at a baby learning to walk. The only reason a child can learn to walk, is because they've failed every time, but keep trying. The only difference between how quickly one child learns and another, is the number of times they try, in a given time frame, as learning to walk, on a physiological level requires the constant firing of neural synapses, down the muscle fibres, until myelin sheaths are formed, that allow an 'unconscious' competence to be developed. That same process needs to occur for any skill, or competence development.

For me, I want to fail. The more spectacularly I can fail, it means the more courageously I will have tried. But more importantly, the more frequently I fail, the quicker I will learn what works and what doesn't. Like the child learning to walk, constant feedback, through thousands of attempts will eventually lead to mastery, and competence. But if I don't set out to fail, and embrace the desire to fail, then I'll never give myself the permission to fail in public, or openly or honestly. In my mind, being honest with yourself and others, is as much about being transparent enough to acknowledge failure, as much as it is about failing itself. It takes much more effort, and hard work to fail, publicly, and then to try again, than it does to try and succeed. (Oftentimes, if you're trying and succeeding, it means you have to try even harder, to get to a point of failure, before any new learning/feedback can occur in the process).

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, I'll definitely be adding Steve Pressfield's 'Do The Work' to my reading list.

Re: The Nokia Gift Machine

Farhan Rehman — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 07:34:57 -0000

Hope it does find it's way down south ;) Would be great to experience it!! What a great innovation!! Well done you guys!

Re: Zkatter

Farhan Rehman — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 08:46:59 -0000

Seen this demo'd looks awesome! Can't wait to see it go mainstream, across all the platforms!

Re: An Annoying/Funny/Time-wasting Exchange on LinkedIn