Darryl King’s blog ireckon

Today, the launch of the My School website occurred. It was heavily promoted, and given how controversial the scoring system and the way schools can be compared has been, it was always going to be a pretty obvious heavy first day of usage. It was very disappointing (albeit a little expected) to see that the site has [...]

It happened again this week. I was discussing online strategies with a business, only to discover that they do not have even a basic listening program in place for electronic chatter about themselves. I realise that before online media came along it was extremely easy to stick your head in the sand. As long as sales [...]

Yesterday I was embarrassed. As part of #irace (our staff activity for Xmas)  one of our staff teams wore ‘hot pink’ t-shirts. This was an all male (heterosexual) team and the pink colour was one of three bright colours. The event was all in good fun, and no one was supposed to get hurt. Thankfully no one [...]

Last night a person (yes a real human) made several mistakes. They made an error and then the attempts to manage it weren’t so great and things didn’t exactly resolve themselves as they could have. Ever happened to you? In your working life, have you ever made one of those mistakes that sent chills down your [...]

Due to some changes made to the printed version and a desire to make sure the book gets spread as far and wide as possible to help young men / men of all ages, The Perfect Gift for a Man ebook is now available free.  Read the update. You can download it here, or from the [...]