18:26 All stations to Ruislip (Pic line)
Hello readers. Slightly different blog today as I've been at an all day event held at the BAFTAs (195 Piccadilly), few doors down from the Ritz. (As you do)
So, where to begin...a lot of really interesting tech and visions of the future for analytics. There were some new terms I learnt such as a Yaughtabyte, which is used to describe a volume of data that is 1 followed by 23 zeros. Nice! and one of the facts by the Google man was that we create the same amount of new content in 3 days that previously took over 2 years to generate! Wowza...probably a bit of that is because of my blog content...
He also showed something called Google Hangout which is really cool. We had a live demo of this girl in California (Daria something) who has over 1.2million followers, and sang one of her songs and had some of her fans from across the world providing comment. The neat thing about this video conference tool was as someone spoke, it automatically shows your webcam. check it out! Thinking of doing one of my blogs on there. Let me know if you want to join me!
The place was very grand, had a lovely coffee room, historic cinema style auditorium and some art deco loos! Most of the cinema chairs were 'endowed' which I think means sponsored by celebs or professional bodies. I sat in Michael Canes seat after mistakenly sitting in Nigel Lithgoe's (who - exactly!) seat for about 10 seconds before realising I could do better...
The best bit (apart from seeing Kate Winslet in the coffee room) and sitting on Angelina's knee was the really powerful speech by Sir Michael Woodward. He talked about the DNA of a champion, the fact that we all have talent but what makes a champion. A couple of great quotes including "A great team is made up of great individuals" and "Talent alone is not enough". He said that don't expect respect from your team just cos you are the boss. You have to earn it and take them on the journey with you. Maybe I need more than one liners in that case...
Finally he talked about time management and blocking out time in your diary so you have some time to do the things that you need to do. So if you can't get hold of me from 10-11am, that's cos I will be drafting my blog.
Key words were attitude, motivation and pressure. He talked about what separates the greats from the champions, was their ability to operate at the highest level under the highest pressure (world cup rugby final). I totally got it as I recounted the other day when I pressed on the smartboard and nothing happened...
Wowza, this sounds like some sort of BAFTA speech now, but big respect to him and before I had a chance, someone already asked him whether he would consider being the next England Manager!
And to finish, there are two human behaviours that I've witnessed which I wanted to share.
When people are running down the stairs for the tube and realise they won't make it, why do they pretend that they didn't really want it anyway and slow right down.
Secondly, Are you one of those keen environmentalists (like most people), that only wash your hands when there's someone else in the bathroom at the same time.
And before you ask, yes both Kate Winslet and Angellina both washed theirs and I'm now being escorted out of the building so let's leave it there.
Have a lovely sleep darlings,
A small man called Kawks
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