White paper ideas

by | Apr 10, 2012 | Education, Learning, Lumina

We’ve got our thinking caps on around The Inspiration Factory. We’ve started work on some white papers, designed to help us share Lumina Spark more effectively with different audiences. If they turn out to be useful tools for us we’re considering sharing them for...

Out-Of-Office? Outsource!

by | Apr 3, 2012 | Learning

At last week’s Effortless Inbox workshop (which was a great success, thank you to everyone who attended), we briefly discussed the Out Of Office assistant that comes with many email providers. This nifty little gadget is basically an answerphone for your email; if...

Building the A-Team

by | Mar 26, 2012 | Learning

I’ve been taking the tube a lot recently and so I keep seeing Vodafone’s new ad campaign splashed all over the walls. The tagline is “There is a better way to build your business,” and in the adverts various office-types are being subjected to what are obviously...

More musings on simplicity and streamlining

by | Mar 21, 2012 | Learning

I recently tweeted some email tips from Merlin Mann, the chap behind ‘Inbox Zero’ and an influence on our own Effortless Inbox time-management sessions (what do you mean, you don’t follow us on twitter? @INSPIRErational). Mann’s tips are really good and they got me...

In search of simplicity

by | Mar 13, 2012 | Article, Education

There’s a great scene in Back to the Future (one of my favourite films) where you see the machine Doc Brown has constructed to feed his dog Einstein. It’s ludicrously, preposterously complicated. Such machines have a name: Rube Goldberg machines, after the American...