This Week with Taylor & Gordon Taylor and Gordon Drayson
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Taylor and Gordon talking about what they get up to during the week. They discuss new and interesting software that they have found, as well as the problems they faced and how they solved them.
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Season 5 - Episode 163
Outside help for your own business
Personal projects designs (Thank you Jake)
No budget put aside, or time to do certain things
Objective viewpoint – plus it will get done as it’s customer work for the outside help
Investment in your business
Collaboration works really well
Talking through magic acts and web design with outside help
New personal website coming soon, as well as a customer website – watch this space
Your Workspace
Office is important for a home business
Clear out needed – when it gets messy
Things pile up and need dealing with
Working through paperwork / receipts
When working on a project, other things get put aside
Which are you – Tidy Desk and Inbox Zero person
Or someone who lets things build up around them
Clearing your workspace once a day
Dealing with emails if they will take 2 minutes or less
Leaving things out mean they haven’t been dealt with yet
Set reminders to flag things that need doing
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Drayson Design Website – https://www.draysondesign.com
The Creative Tinker Website – https://www.thecreativetinker.com
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Season 5 - Episode 162
Children’s Entertainer’s Convention in Stoke on Trent
Alarms that didn’t go off, phone and Alexa
Lost confidence – re-evaluate the process
Phones with no battery charge will also not go off…
Check to make sure your systems are working
Check backups, make sure they are working
Fail to plan, or plan to fail
Alton Towers on a day off (very wet day)
Better understanding of people of days out
Out of office processes
The business still needs to run even if I am away
Plan for no signal – find wifi
Customers need your urgent attention as a small business
Team members need a communication method with you
Test the system, and have a backup
Google Podcasts are shutting down – move to a new platform
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Drayson Design Website – https://www.draysondesign.com
The Creative Tinker Website – https://www.thecreativetinker.com
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Season 5 - Episode 161
Hi to Luke from Japan
Chat GPT-4o has been released – https://openai.com/index/hello-gpt-4o/
Responds to video and photos as well as audio chat
It will chat to you in a very realistic and nateral way
Lots of video examples on the link – like AI talking to AI
Interacting with the world around it
4o is faster, cheaper and give better responses
Will Apple announce AI functionality for their devices at WWDC – https://developer.apple.com/wwdc24/
Downloadable ChatGPT app for the Mac now available
Like-minded people
Collaborating with these people make things much better in the end
Best practises – get a combined general consensus
Pro’s and Con’s from different perspectives
Fresh eyes will also give you insights
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Drayson Design Website – https://www.draysondesign.com
The Creative Tinker Website – https://www.thecreativetinker.com
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Season 5 - Episode 160
New version of GenerateBlocks – Classes system added
New Starter Site build needed
Creating default pages, and setting up default styles
Much easier to build new websites once this is complete
Great to prevent “missing” things like a 404 page
Get professionals to do the job
Time consuming when creating but will save time in the future
Always check to see if there are better ways of doing things
Talking to your customers in language they will understand
Don’t use jargon to people who are not used to these terms
B2C language should be consistent across all communications, website, quotes, documentation, literature etc.
B2B might be different, it might not.
Translating from lay-person to developer using specific language
Spell it out to people if there is doubt they will understand certain language
Always lean towards benefits when talking to customers
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Drayson Design Website – https://www.draysondesign.com
The Creative Tinker Website – https://www.thecreativetinker.com
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Youtube: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/youtube
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Season 5 - Episode 159
Facebook end groups API access
This allowed us to post our videos automatically on our Facebook Group using Restream – and now we need a workaround.
We now have to create a Facebook event, which gives us a streaming key which we can then use in Restream
It does allow us to embed our live videos on our website should we wish to do so
Stream issues last week with the Facebook Group workaround – missed the beginning of the video
Frontly.ai – No Code website builder – all content comes from Google Sheets
Display and filter the data in difference ways
It is continually getting updates
Creating our own “Software List” for web apps we own
AI builder which builds the basis of the app for you from your text prompt
Developers can make or break a software solution
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Drayson Design Website – https://www.draysondesign.com
The Creative Tinker Website – https://www.thecreativetinker.com
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Youtube: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/youtube
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Season 5 - Episode 158
Visit to Budapest – the end of 12 Months of Coffee
The Starbucks mug collection is still growing
Future Planning – creating a new starter site
Generate Blocks now has classes
The starter site needs to be flexible for different types of websites and tech stacks
Lots of work to create – but it’s a one off task with ongoing tweaks
It’s very individual, but could be used as a basis for others
Does this apply to you with any repetitive tasks
Documenting is really useful
Dropbox – https://www.dropbox.com/
Online storage and backup service
Third parties can change their rules anytime they like
Do you rely on a third party too much?
Check to see if these services are still relevant to you – is there anything else available that would be better?
Vimeo alternative – Adilo – https://adilo.com/
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Drayson Design Website – https://www.draysondesign.com
The Creative Tinker Website – https://www.thecreativetinker.com
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