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Why working without a plan is a waste of time and energy – Be SMART

Image by Klimkin from Pixabay Over the years, you learn that time and energy are very precious. Here is how I am setting goals and working smarter, not just harder. As you all know by now, I work in the area of communications and for those of you who do too, I am sure you [...]

By |2022-05-21T13:36:51+01:00November 22nd, 2019|stories|Comments Off on Why working without a plan is a waste of time and energy – Be SMART

What my convalescence has taught me

Image by Andrew Martin from Pixabay Today I left my crutches at home. On the last day of my holiday, I managed to injure myself. I was again trying to fit a pint into a half pint glass, burning the candle at both ends. This is the story of what happened to me, why it [...]

By |2022-05-21T13:38:16+01:00August 23rd, 2019|stories|Comments Off on What my convalescence has taught me

Why are languages important? The story of a multilingual nomad

Image by Oli Lynch from Pixabay I have been thinking quite a lot about languages over the past few days. Today is the first day of my holiday and I have been looking forward to coming back to Belgium for weeks now. What does this have to do with languages? Well, for those of you [...]

By |2022-05-21T13:39:18+01:00August 23rd, 2019|stories|Comments Off on Why are languages important? The story of a multilingual nomad

Interviewing experts in your area: Should you do it live or via email?

Image by skeeze from Pixabay We are not interviewing film stars, as illustrated above, though the people we choose all play important roles in the field of research and of data science. They are our celebrities, the movers and shakers of our world. We started a new series of articles on the CESSDA website [...]

By |2022-05-21T13:41:17+01:00July 17th, 2019|stories|Comments Off on Interviewing experts in your area: Should you do it live or via email?

How can you create an engaged virtual team?

Image by Perry Grone from Unsplash One of my main tasks at CESSDA is to coordinate our internal communications group (CESSDA Comms Group) which is made up of staff in our service providers (data archives and services in our seventeen member countries and one observer) and in aspiring service providers (in non-member countries that [...]

By |2022-05-21T13:42:20+01:00July 8th, 2019|stories|Comments Off on How can you create an engaged virtual team?

Why I do what I do

We all have our day jobs. Our private lives. Our friends and family. Someone to come home to. But what of those who don't? What if you don't have a job either because you try and try and don’t get anywhere or you are incapacitated for whichever reason and the job market is closed to you? [...]

By |2019-06-21T12:47:36+01:00February 1st, 2019|stories|Comments Off on Why I do what I do
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