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Comment on Free Speech Has Turned a Corner by Max Tatton-Brown

Max Tatton-Brown — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:19:00 +0000

I think it’s a fair point to say you also have the right to free speech in response but if that woman was just greeted with stoney silence and people walking away, I think it’d speak volumes.

Comment on Free Speech Has Turned a Corner by Siany

Siany — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:59:00 +0000

I’ve been wanting to go to Speaker’s Corner for ages now! But free speech does have limitations – libel, slander, inciting crime – and I think that in this case, yelling racist abuse falls under that. I see Speaker’s Corner as a kind of archaic blogging platform. You have free speech and you can indeed say what you want (eloquently, or not at all), but you’ve also got to be prepared for a response. Once you’re addressing the public, you’re having a conversation and heckling is a natural part of that. Reacting is a natural reaction.

Comment on The Age of Digital Inhibitions by Hedgewytch

Hedgewytch — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 11:02:00 +0000

I’d just like to be able to choose what i want the world to see, why should I have to censor myself everyday? I want to be me. I can’t be me if I know that everything I say is being collected and harvested and analysed. Where money is concerned there is little trust left out there. The only person who has a right to make money of me is me, and if I can’t why should they.People are just printing money by stealing and laughing all the way to the bank. Oh.. wait..

Comment on How will we Manage without degrees? by Max Tatton-Brown

Max Tatton-Brown — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 13:19:00 +0000

Thanks for the comments guys – interesting that you hit on getting lucky and finding somewhere that doesn’t necessarily require a degree Matt.

I’m a little obsessed with recruitment and how you identify and bring in the best possible talent since it makes such a difference to any business. Such a challenge to work out how you reach the really good non-degree people and where they spend their time without wasting tons of your own on the no-hopers.

Comment on How will we Manage without degrees? by mjcross

mjcross — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 19:55:00 +0000

Good post mate – as a director with no degree I do wonder whether I could have got where I am any quicker if I had stuck it out at university. Probably not. For me it came down to the fact that after two years of sixth form and a first year at university I just didn’t enjoy studying any more – in fact I hated it. I actually view my year at uni as the only wasted year in my post-school life as I could have got stuck into work a year earlier! Perhaps I was a little lucky though and found somewhere that didn’t necessarily require a degree to warrant a chance. My school was particularly proud of its university entrance percentage and not going to university was never an option. While careers advice at school is notoriously bad, perhaps there is more that can be done at age 17 to show kids the choices out there…they are probably already doing it but it wasn’t available “in my day” (groans, stretches out achey back and hobbles to put the cocoa on)

Comment on How will we Manage without degrees? by Steve Ward

Steve Ward — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:36:00 +0000

Great post Max and a standpoint I wholeheartedly agree with. Ok, I’m biased – not a degree on my record anywhere, but yes, ‘Graduate Management Schemes’ are a joke. We’re just not all made to be managers, and as you say, sometimes brilliance in leadership often comes from home grown.I see it from a recruiter standpoint of course, too. Too many Grads who just demean the brilliant Lawyers, Doctors, Surgeons, etc. Degrees in management just mean nothing. And people just aren’t recruiting grads like they used to. I wrote about this after last years riots : http://recruitmentmisfit.com/i-predict-a-riot-time-we-squashed-graduate-nuI hope there is a way that an apprenticeship scheme like YTS scheme can be rediscovered, and get more people training at 16 to 18, rather than being lost and disappointed at 21 or 22.

Comment on How do I filter tweets from TweetDeck? by Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs…. » The Tech PR Blog

Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs…. » The Tech PR Blog — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:52:24 +0000

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Comment on Death of the Social Media Guru: 4 New Signs of the Social Media Try-Hard by Lewis Shields

Lewis Shields — Mon, 16 May 2011 13:56:00 +0000

5. The Caller Outer

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