Everyone needs a holiday every now and then. 
That is why my family and are currently on holiday in Anglesey in the most northern part of Wales. Our first holiday this year.
Beautiful coast line, peace and quit and very very long walks on the beach and coastline with the my wife Anne and our dog Poncho.
I will be back on Monday so stay tuned for some new posts on Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Media.
Have a good week everyone.
Picture Credit: mrmrwatson
This week has been a real manic week. Ever since I started Monday morning there has been nothing but work, work and work. Dont get me wrong, I love what I do but there is some point where you need to stop and take a breath to reflect. This is usually the Sunday for me. Relaxation, spending time with the family and looking at the week ahead.
Today is Sunday and I still have a lot of work to do. So no reflection for me this week. I am lucky that Anne (my wife) has a friend over this weekend to keep busy. She would not have liked to see me work all weekend. She charishes our Sunday togehter (so do I). But they are in London today. That gives me the time to…….yes you guessed it………work. Well at least I am getting payed for it. Lets look at the bright side.
In terms of developments this week has been rather quit. I am also happy about this as my schedule is pretty packed for the next few months to come. Next to my journey to Germany during this week I managed to do two blog posts this week. One on domains titled: How To Put A Domain Name Up For Sale – Quick And Easy and my weekly Top 5 Sustainability/CSR News.
The upcoming week will be busy again with travel to Hamburg on Tuesday evening and the journey back lae Thurday night. Then hopefully I will be able to spend the following week here in London. Catching up with the London Network for a change.
So long everyone. Have a good and productive next week.
Regards,
Fabian
Picture Credit: Thomas Rockstar
I am back from our Crete holiday and we had a great time, lots of sunshine and peace and quit for a week. I could not resist checking in twice during the week but I guess I am only human to used to the internet. 
Here are some pictures from our trip:
Here is the link to the complete Crete holiday set on Flickr. http://www.flickr.com/photos/fpattberg/sets/72157608024851481/
But now it is time to get back to work. The next week will see at least three new posts. Two on Sustainability topics, one on domain names and one on social media of some sorts.
All the best,
Fabian
I am going on holiday for a week starting today so stay tuned for more posts after the 9th of October.
Kind Regards,
Fabian
Picture Credit: Nicolai Kjærgaard
A great song from Coldplay (my favourite song at the moment) and the perfect sentence to describe my life at the moment. I am living life to the fullest and loving every moment of it.
How come? Well this week has really been a week where a lot of lose ends have started to come together, finally.
Loose End No 1: I have made the decision to develop the SustainabilityForum.com on my own and I believe I also found the right developer for the job. This is like a dream come true for me and I am pleased that I decided to not give up ownership that early in the developing stages although I was tempted.
No 2: I am now starting to build key relationships with some of the best conference and event organisers in the Sustainability field. We have arranged to work together on the SustainabilityForum.com. More information will follow in due course.
No 3: My negotiations with a German business partner ended in us finding common ground to work together. I am really looking forward working with him in the future. This will be a key relationship for the future of my business and our family.
No 4: This is a secret but this will again change in lot in our life if it goes according to plan.
So all in all has it been a pretty busy week with a lot of results. I am anticipating that next week will not be as big as this one but that does not really matter. I now need to work hard to build on the developments and justify the trust placed in me.
All the best,
Fabian
I have started using iGoogle over the past weeks and I am really amazed what you can do with it. This post is about how you could use iGoogle to better organize your day.
The general purpose of iGoogle is to provide you with one or more pages to combine many gadgets as they call that can make your life easier. Gadgets can either be RSS feeds, blogs and applications. Everything is customizable and really a pleasure to work with.
Here are my favourite gadgets for raising your productivity and for the better organisation of your day through iGoogle:
And finally when you look at your iGoogle page and think that it is a mess then take a look at this gadget. The compound gadget is a great tool to organize your gadgets into tabs in a compound gadget to give you a cleaner and easier usage of the page.
This is rounds up our look at iGoogle today so let me know whether I missed any good gadgets. All gadgets can be found here: All iGoogle Gadgets
All the best,
Fabian
Well here it is the summer. For a couple of hours on a Friday that is. So you think: “Oh No not something about the weather again.”
I hate to write about the weather all the time but what can you do when the weather is so bad that you wish you would be somewhere warmer and sunnier. Okay now lets stop moaning now Fabian.
This week has been fairly quiet. You can really tell that it is the holiday season. Even my wife works from home today. This hasn’t happened for months because she was always to busy.
Because there was not so much going on this week I focused on online networking with a special emphasis on LinkedIn and Xing. I really love these networking sites. They are so useful sites to connect to likeminded people and professionals in your field. LinkedIn is more a global professional network where Xing in my opinion is very “Germany” focused. But in any case would I recommend to anyone interested in making new business contacts to register with both or at least with one.
I am going to Germany next week to meet up with a potential business partner in Hamburg. I am leaving a day earlier then Anne to meet them. Anne is going to Hamburg as well because we have another wedding in a week’s time close to Flensburg. (link to Flensburg).
And it decision time after that meeting. I have to finalize my plans for the redevelopment of the forum. This might not sound like a big and important decision but this decision in which direction to take the forum will be a huge influencer in where the future of my family lies in my opinion.
This weekend will be a nice weekend hopefully. Anne and I are meeting friends on the Sunday to, if the weather permits, take a long walk in the southern London area. There are some nice places to walk and with a 5-7 hour walk this day should be fun and great ot get away from the computer for a day.
Until next time everyone.
Fabian
This week has been another memorable. With a beautiful and relaxing start in Copenhagen to a very busy and work oriented networking event towards the end.
After coming back from Copenhagen it was time to get going again and define the goals for this week.
I achieved all of them with rewriting some of this website, making major changes to the PB Consulting website, progressing work on the future of the SustainabilityForum and getting as many new contacts at the networking event on Thursday.
Yesterday I finalised the website changes and Thursday was an amazing networking again thanks to the simple concept face-to-face communication. Sometimes the simplest and oldest concepts of communication create the best outcome. The modern social media helps but I think will never replace this type of networking.
Today we are going to visit a friend in one of the most beautiful places in the UK. It is his birthday and he is doing a barbeque. He lives in Bourton-On-The-Hill in the middle of the Cotsworlds (Picture shows a typical house in the Cotswolds).
We will be staying overnight as the drive back to London would be at least 2 hours. I just hope that it does not rain. Keep your fingers crossed.
All the best,
Fabian
We came back from Copenhagen on Monday evening and we had a great time.
The wedding was a typical Danish wedding with lots of speeches, hours of drinking (toasting), lots of singing, eating and finally some nice dancing.
Here are some of the photos.
So that is 1 wedding in August down 2 more to go.
On the business side of things this week will I intensify my lookout for a programmer that can help me with the redevelopment of the SustainabilityForum and my other websites. So if you know someone in the London area that has programming experience and is also “Sustainability Minded” then please get in touch.
I will be going to the London Coffee Meetup tomorrow but have no more external meetings otherwise. You can really tell that the holidays have started. This gives me more time to focus on some other work.
I also aquired a new nice domain name yesterday. EnergyHelp.net .That domain could make a good website for any kind of help or assistance on energy saving ,etc.
Al the best,
Fabian
Anne and I are off to a wedding in Copenhagen this weekend. Two of our best friends are getting married. Rado and Marie got to know each other during our university time and it is so great that they are now getting married.
And it will also be great to be in back in our old home town Copenhagen. I am looking forward to have a stroll in the city (without Annes most certain regular shopping distractions of course!) and then being able to just walk five minutes from the city centre and sit and relax at the beautiful seaside harbor (See picture). It really beautiful in Copenhagen and we still love to go back to revisit.
This week was a very productive week again and had a great finish with three good meetings today across various parts of London.
We will be back on Monday evening so I am finishing of the week one day early and start it one week late. Now that’s what I call a long weekend.
Have a good weekend everyone.
Fabian
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