Journal

Are you struggling to see how your values, mission, vision and purpose fit into the story of your practice? Perhaps this will help. VALUES – your starting point. You take…

In case you're in any doubt as to the value of storytelling, here's a little list to help you see the light: Stories... ...make us care ...tap into our emotions ...build…

Is there anything more awkward than sitting in a room on your own and talking to a screen with nothing to look at but your own PowerPoint slides and a…

There’s something pretty good about being in a room full of excited and subversive architects. And that’s the situation I found myself in last Tuesday. It was the RIBA Guerrilla…

It's the RIBA Guerrilla Tactics conference this week, and I'm gearing up for my online CPD session on 'How to tell a meaningful story about your practice'. So, here's a…

The other week I posted on LinkedIn about how my clients find me (word-of-mouth and podcasts, mainly), and I didn't even mention Google as a contender. And now all of…

I've always been a big fan of lists. You don't need to worry about linking one thing to the next, and you don't need to worry about the cumulative effect.…

Looking back, I'm surprised by how fickle I've been. It turns out I've had a fair few different websites in my time – two when I was working within publishing,…

I'm loving the people photos on architects' websites these days – and by that I mean both the team photos and the photos of each person in turn. Almost gone…

If you ask me why you should tell stories about your work, I'll have a lot to say. Stories do so much of the hard work for us – they…

Have you ever read a testimonial that starts ‘They are an award-winning, multi-disciplinary practice…’? No? Nor me. And that’s because clients – or at least the lovely human ones that…

Over the last five years of running in-house writing workshops, I've been trying far too hard to be helpful through wordy PDFs summarising everything we covered. And I'm not so…

Sometimes I see something in my calendar that I can't make head nor tail of – something like 'Website discussion' or 'Text feedback'. Now that doesn't really narrow it down…

Maybe everyone knows about this, but just in case you don’t, let me shout about it: YOU CAN LISTEN TO PODCASTS AT DOUBLE-SPEED. I love a good podcast, and where…

Purpose, values, vision, narrative… These are all words that get bandied about, but why are they important, how do they help, and what do they really mean? If you’re interested…

Asking for a testimonial can be tricky. Actually getting one is even trickier.

Here are George & James (aka Simon Drayson and Darren Leach) and I looking very pleased with ourselves at the Archiboo Awards.

I love these awards, and I love the many different categories that celebrate all the people hidden away in corners and working away to make great websites

I did a risky thing this summer – I didn’t use an out-of-office reply…

An FAQ about FAQs: are they a good thing to have on your website or not?