Colin Boyd

I’ve been reading this book by Scott Berkin on and off now for a few months. I tend to take my time with books and rather than burning through a book in a few hours I like to read a few chapters, put the book down, get a coffee and sit somewhere quite and think about what I’ve read and how it can be of use to me.

This book, even thou I haven’t finished reading it, has been the topic of a few conversations in the office and was one of the major motivators for me, along with Getting Shit Done by Niall Harbison, to bring in no rules working from home for all our staff and changing our company structure to a flat system where everyone has a client to manage and there’s no middle management.

These changes have our team communicating and sharing information on a level that we couldn’t have forced them to do.

In the book Scott talks about the seven steps of general work flow that take place at Automattic.

Pick a problem
Launch announcement and support page
Consider the best data
Get to work
Launch
Learn
Repeat

I think these steps can be used as a guide to any project and would be a good structure for young startups that might not have any previous project management experience.

Now time to pack up the caravan and head off to our new location to continue our remote working, goodbye Southerness hello Silloth. Long may the good weather continue

Colin Boyd

So the guy in pc world was blabbing on about miracast when I was buying a new blu ray player, I was wanting out of the shop as fast as I could move before they tried to sell me a mobile phone contract, 60 buck blu ray player under the arm and out the door.

I’ve now been messing about with it and miracast is totally the best thing I’ve ever seen.

So what it does, my blu ray player is connected to my wifi network, as is my phone.

I then visit youtube in my phone and and it asks if I’d like to watch it on my tv, and the first time I’m thinking this is never going to work

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But here’s the best bit you can queue youtube clips to watch on your tv and make your own wee tv channel.

My channel tonight is all the live versions I can find of Jubliee st by nick cave and the bad seeds

Tommorow ill be mostly watching Street Hawk intro, Street Hawk versus night rider and Happy Mondays

Colin Boyd

Today the team had a meeting to review one of our hotel chain clients yearly performance and the outcome is a 50% rise is online sales and traffic.

That’s great news and the team working on it did really well despite lots of changes over the past 12 months from google. Now just to boil it down and pass out the findings to our other teams and hopefully something learned for all.

Colin Boyd

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I’ve know added a 3d printer to my office desk, I think every desk should have one off these as you never know when you’ll need to make Darth Vader snowflakes for the Xmas tree

Colin Boyd

We’ve got the first couple of rows in place for the Boyd Digital Auditorium and should hopefully have it completed next week. We originally planed for 40 odd seats but brought that down to 30.

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Next year the Boyd digital guys will be doing mini seminars and talks about marketing, technology and anything else that they think of.

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It’s been an experience buying a truck load of cinema seats from London and getting them up here and installed, actually it was all done online, maybe i’ll do a talk on that