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You might wonder if business cards are relevant in today’s digital age. Surprisingly, they are. They remain a powerful tool for networking and making a memorable first impression. A physical card is tangible and leaves a lasting mark, especially when it stands out. While I’m no networking guru, I’ve picked up a few useful tips along the way that...

Identifying what risks you hold across your IT infrastructure is a key part of any risk management strategy. This is especially true when it comes to your data. If you don’t know what risks you hold, you can’t manage them. This is why it’s important to have a risk management strategy in place. To help you identify what risks you hold, I’ve put ...

I run a variety of websites, both for myself and for clients. One thing that is very important to do is to ensure that when you have a decent backup approach in place. I personally achieve this through the use of WPvivid to perform nightly backups of files and the database to a cloud storage provider. However, just having the backups saved to a...

Over the years I’ve been working to move more and more of the content into version control. This spans both my development work and writing for this site and books/documents. However, as I switch between multiple computers where I will use one as my day-to-day driver and a second one for when I’m travelling to and from work, ensuring that I keep...

You might have thought that working hard, getting results and doing a good job would be enough to get you a good review round score. Unfortunately, this only really works in small organisations where everyone knows you and they’re aware of how you’re performing. In larger organisations, the people making the final decisions around promotions and...

Do you find yourself feeling like you’re a fraud? Feeling like you’re getting by on chance, that your friends, colleagues and the client will soon find you out? If so, then you might be dealing with Imposter Syndrome also sometimes referred to as the Imposter Complex. What is Imposter Syndrome? Imposter Syndrome is a term originally coined by ...

When you think of stress, you no doubt think of a situation similar to this picture. A situation of discomfort, strain and pressure, which could be caused by innumerable reasons. While this is definitely one form of stress, stress is also something that can also make you feel excited, motivated and challenged. Types of Stress As I’ve alluded...

Excel is a powerful tool and has a lot of opportunities that people aren’t aware of. In this post, I’m going to talk about one of these, the ability to easily make a dynamic sub-menu. The Example We are going to make a simple look up, which when you specify a country will give you a list of major cities. For this example, we are only going to ...