More than just a trend, emojis are a powerful means of visual communication with real-world benefits in business, but we must use them carefully — How do people feel about the use of emojis in corporate communications? To answer this, I polled my LinkedIn and Twitter followers a couple of weeks back. Of 150 respondents across both platforms, 25% say they love the use of emojis in corporate comms, 46% believe only limited use is…

I like to pay it forward by buying colleagues’ coffee in the office cafe. Here’s what I mean and why EY is going a thousand steps further… — “What are the things you enjoy the most in the office?” my colleague Lorna Culpin asked in a recent LinkedIn post. …

This month, it’s all about Bruce Willis, Anne Boleyn’s brother, veganism, empty eggshells & dodgy LinkedIn posts — There was so much great tech content to choose from for my October roundup that it was almost impossible to pick just a handful — almost. We’re heavy on deepfake stuff this month as the controversial tech has been a big talking point in our house of late, and that’s…

Like outdoor clothing firm Patagonia, we have a passion for purpose and a commitment to corporate responsibility — Setting a new standard for environmental corporate leadership, the billionaire founder of Patagonia last week announced he’d be handing the outdoor clothing company to a trust & non-profit, which will use future profits made beyond reinvestment in the business to help fight our climate crisis.

Today we bid farewell to our Queen, who made an unforgettable mark, as our new Prime Minister begins to make her own — Two weeks ago, a blog on female leadership was a mere nugget of an idea in my mind. When Liz Truss was appointed the United Kingdom’s new Prime Minister on September 6th, it became a possibility. …

I’m back with the second instalment of my new monthly series on tech (ish) content I think everyone should check out. — Although you’ll read this blog once I’ve returned to the UK, I’m writing it poolside — in true digital nomad style — at Spain’s La Manga Club. On annual leave, my husband and I are here with our kids, who are taking full advantage of the myriad activities on offer…

Accessible via Discord, the Midjourney server has set the internet abuzz of late — here’s why it’s better than DALL-E Mini — A couple of months back, I wrote a blog on DALL-E MIni, the mini open-access version of OpenAI’s artificial intelligence text-to-image generator DALL-E. The week I put the piece together, the system was taking the internet by storm thanks to its capacity for creating original but often hilariously warped artworks…

Inspired by EY’s great weekly ‘5 must-reads for your weekend’ articles (like this one and this one), I’ve decided to put together something similar once a month. I’ll be covering both newer and older content that has recently caught my attention on a variety of media, including TV series, films…

From Roland ‘The Master of Disaster’ Emmerich, Moonfall boasts some cosmically bad dialogue, but it’s still a lot of fun — Last week, to a cosmic chorus of oohs and aahs, NASA published a series of stunning shots taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the most powerful space observatory in human history. “Prepare for a new way to see the universe,” they said, pulling back the curtain on time…