Brendan Mitchell blog

Tag: inspiration

  • Hey Jerrie (By Allee Willis)

    Yesterday Triiibes exploded, when 2,000 new members came knocking on the door, it’s been impossible to keep up or welcome all the new faces, who cover an incredibly broad range of people & talents. But there’s one that stood out from the crowd for me Allee Willis (& Wikipedia). You may not know the name,…

  • Seth Godin London Session

    A couple of weeks ago I attended a Seth Godin presentation in London, produced by Mark Muggeridge of Evil Genius. I first heard of the event on Triiibes when Mark announced he’d been in discussions with Seth about putting on an event. Having been involved in live events myself for almost 20 years, I offered…

  • what will you aspire to today?

    You can only push marketing so far! This really made me laugh this morning, I mean come on, you’d have to be in a pretty bad place to aspire to being in Slough? Aspire2Slough website

  • The Dalai Lama on Twitter… Nope, just a case of Brand Jacking

    Within 24hrs of announcing his Twitter account, the Dalai Lama has amassed 13,450 followers… Surely that must have set a new Twitter record! Why choose Twitter: “His Holiness thought it was prudent to make his office open and assessable to a more youth and technologically advancing audience.” So now there really is no excuses for…

  • Trust Me, I’m a Blogger

    While taking a break from my hectic morning schedule of making myself a cup of tea & finding some clean socks to wear I thought I’d check in and see what little bread crumbs my fellow Twits had left for me. Sure enough there were plenty, but one from Jaculynn stood out more than most…

  • I hear there’s a recession, but I’ve decided not to take part

    At the end of 2007 I sold two of my companies, vision360 & ezpresenter, to the Cordovan Group, with the new company becoming Cordovan Digital (where I’m currently a Board Director). We’ve had a pretty good year, highest turnover & profits of our previous 10 year history, so I can’t say fairer than that. Of…

  • Lightbulbs & Lasers

    bing! the lightbulb illuminates when you have your idea, it’s a killer idea, it’s going to change everything, it’s really cool, you almost can’t believe that no one has ever thought of this before, so sit there & bask in it’s warm glow for a while and let others join you to share in this…

  • Give Credit Where It’s Due

    In an interview discussing the Hollywood fixation with the Prius, on a recent episode of Top Gear,  Jay Leno (with his tongue firming pressed against his cheek), said  “In America, we like everyone to know, about all the good work we’re doing anonymously!?” OK he was joking, but actually he wasn’t that far off the…

  • Try Again

    While I was visiting my Aunt in Ireland a couple of years ago I was admiring a small delicate red leaf plant she had in her kitchen (I’m not much of a plant person, this was very out of character for me), she said she had loads of the stuff all over her garden, I…

  • Startup Tips for the Early, Early Days

    I couldn’t agree more with this… I stumbled across it while looking at Noah Everett’s blog, he’s the founder of Nusoni… (they developed TwitPic)