Listening Now Blog

I’ve done a lot of home renovation in my time.  I may not look it, but I’m actually a very handy person.  I’ve scraped wallpaper, painted walls, shovelled old floor tiles up, and a host of other physical tasks that have led to the beautification of the property. The thing about renovations is the preparation [...]

This is the last in our series on listening currency from Birdy Diamond.   Here Here to Birdy for such a beautifully drawn quartet of posts!! Listening Currency: Your Contribution to the Listening Economy Previously in this series, we’ve spoken about what Listening Currency is , when to spend it, and when to save it.  And [...]

I watched Freaknomoics the other night.  It’s based on the book of the same name and is a series of vignettes on various topics, all in some way, some very loosely at first glance, to be linked to economics.  I hated economics in both the degrees I did – I have a vague recollection of [...]

This is our third post in the series on Listening Currency from Birdy Diamond.  In the very first article in this series, Birdy introduced us to the idea of listening currency.  The second article in the series, Birdy gave us five times when we should ‘spend’ our listening currency.    In this post, Birdy invites us to talk about [...]