Shrink Tours: Soccer Uhm Football And Grinding Time

The first thing I do when I visit a large foreign city is … take a Hop-on-hop-off bus. Easy and convenient way to get a guided tour through a new place. So, I wondered, why not do this for the web?

Stop 1: John Cleese rants – Soccer vs Football

Let me do this while I still can (Holland – Brazil in a couple of hours). Mention the World Cup Football.

Stop 2: How Social Media Solves Communication Problems

Finally I found the time to write a post outlining the content of the presentations I did last year about social media.

“Whatever your take is of social media, there is no denying that it has attracted a mass audience. From children to grandparents, from wold travelers to cubicle warriors, they all have found a place at social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn. Perhaps it might have been a kids play at first, but, somehow, something that wasn’t supposed to be valuable for business, now is. Looking closer at social media, this is not a surprise.”

You can read the post at my blog at Gantthead.com.

Stop 3: Grinding Time

Did we use to think of our own available time in years and days, our modern society is more and more concerned with seconds and even smaller units of measurement. Those smaller units of time are also getting more and more precious, as more resources are competing to get a slot of our attention.

Ali Anani makes us aware of the concept of Disposable Time in his short presentation Grinding Time: the time available we can save or spend consciously.