Editor's note

Old fashioned
By Nett Administrator on the 1st September 2010
You know I’m not a luddite - after all, I’m editing a magazine dedicated to helping you do more with online – but I have a confession: some of my favourite business trends have stuff-all to do with shiny new technologies or digerati-minted philosophies.And I’m not the only...
Cool customers
By Nett Administrator on the 2nd August 2010
TIME’s Person of the Year for 1999 (Google it!) founded an online business that changed the rules of retail and customer service for everyone else. It’s still the e-commerce company at the top of most people’s lists of online shopping destinations by just about any measure –...
Un-professional?
By Nett Administrator on the 8th June 2010
I enjoy words, which is why I’ve made a career playing with them. Though some words are irritating. There’s a bit of business-speak that has bugged me most of my career. It’s the misappropriation of the word ‘professional’. Too often, people have used the word in a...
Where's the love?
By Nett Administrator on the 8th June 2010
I’m going to take a wild guess: did you go into business so that you can do something you really love? Yes, yes, there are other reasons. Like earning money; doing things your way; building a legacy; and shaping your bright ideas into things other people will find attractive (at the very...
Love or money
By Stuart Ridley on the 23rd April 2010
I’ve been in love with the internet since my uncle introduced me to it in the 1980s. He was using things called ‘email’, ‘bulletin boards’ and ‘newsgroups’ as a way of sharing information with other scientists around the world. At the time, I swore to my...
New and fun
By Stuart Ridley on the 23rd April 2010
One of the awesome things my wife does when we sit down for dinner is to encourage the kids and I to talk about two things: “What was new today?” and “What was fun?” They’re simple questions with incredible possibilities. They help us remember that each day had high...
It's not all about you
By Stuart Ridley on the 23rd April 2010
You are not the centre of the universe. Some people learn this when they’re really little. We learn there are some things we can control – our words, actions – sometimes. And there’s plenty we can’t. So if we want our lives to be better, we need to find positive...