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Daniel Shaw

Because life is too small not to always look for exceptional thoughts, people & experiences...About

Smile Clinic

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Top UK webhosting companies for wordpress

Recently I’ve been doing some research across various reviews on the net to find the best UK companies that offer suitable webhosting for wordpress.
My client has been using 123-reg.co.uk for the past few months, and found his site to be extremely slow to load, and sometimes didn’t load at all resulting in a timeout error.

Here’s the final list:

  • http://www.uk2.net/web-hosting/
  • http://www.clook.co.uk/services/shared-hosting-uk/
  • http://www.tsohost.co.uk/hosting.php
  • http://www.evohosting.co.uk/hosting/starter
  • http://www.webhosting.uk.com/cpanel-hosting.php
  • http://www.uk-cheapest.co.uk/hosting.php
which would you choose?

Update: Went with tsohost.co.uk in the end, very happy so far with their hosting package…

Filed Under: Lists

Dental Holiday

Dental-049When the music band that I was performing with slowed down way back in 2006, I became good friends with Dr. Marek, an Implantologist, endodontist and cosmetic / restorative dentist based in Piestany, Slovakia. And after showing him the simple website that I had built for the band that I was in, he then asked me if I would be interested in building a simple website for his new dental practice in the town. And so it began…

I quickly followed up with some initial marketing research and competition analysis on the Internet concerning dentistry, and came across the concept of “medical tourism”. Surprisingly, it was the very first time that I had encountered the trend of UK patients travelling to countries such as Hungary and Poland for cheaper dentistry abroad. [Read more…] about Dental Holiday

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MedBeaver

MedBeaver Logo
The new MedBeaver logo design

Clinic Search Made Easy –

Our goal is to making choosing the right clinic abroad as easy as choosing a hotel abroad for your next holiday.

By creating a way to effortlessly compare top private medical clinics anywhere in the world, we believe that this new start-up will be the equivalent of booking.com for the medical industry.

Directly on the site, you can filter your search by:

  • reviews
  • standards
  • facilities
  • expertise
  • prices
  • location
  • and treatments offered.

Filed Under: Projects

Dôležitosť týždenného plánovania

Týždenné plánovanie je dôležitou činnosťou, ktorá by sa mala stať zvykom pre každého profesionálneho obchodníka, ktorý pracuje s internetom. Zanedbávanie plánovania sa negatívne odrazí v krátkodobom alebo v dlhodobom horizonte podnikania.

Daniel má každý piatok schôdzku (sám so sebou) aby zhrnul či bolo jeho týždenné plánovanie úspešné a takisto piatok mu dáva šancu urobiť to, čo v priebehu celého týždňa prehliadol. Úlohy, ktoré nestihol v priebehu týždňa presunie do nasledovného týždňa a podľa dôležitosti im dá poradie. Toto mu pomáha získať pokoj a mier.

Ak budete cestovať, budete chcieť mať svoje plánovanie so sebou. Vo všeobecnosti všetko môžete mať vo vašom smartphone, alebo v poznámkovom bloku.

V jeden deň Daniel cestou vo vlaku urobil výborné rozhodnutie, keď si týždenné plánovanie vytvoril  na webe v aplikácií “Evernote”.

Pred tým ako začnete robiť skutočné plánovanie, je dôležité urobiť si všeobecný prehľad ako bude vyzerať nasledovný týždeň. Ten by mal zahŕňať plánovanie prichádzajúcej pošty (listovej ako aj elektronickej), prezretie si svojich predošlých poznámok. Ak by ste svoju prichádzajúcu emailovú poštu nenechávali prázdnu, jedného dňa sa aj tak rozhodnete prejsť všetku prichádzajúcu emailovú poštu a odstrániť nepotrebné položky.

Po prejdení úloh je čas na skúmanie každého projektu. Je vhodné ak aj dvakrát skontrolujete cieľ aby ste sa uistili že dosiahnete úspešný výsledok pre každý projekt. je vhodné vyselektovať si dôležitosť jednotlivých projektov.

Ten, kto pozná knihy od Steve Covey “7 návykov vysoko efektívnych ľudí”, už vedia, že kľúčovou súčasťou týždenného plánovania je aby si jednotlivci preskúmali svoje úlohy ( ako žiak, web dizajner, konzultant, finančný poradca….) a identifikovali si “Big Rocks”.Weekly planning is an important activity that should be a habit for every business professional that works on the internet. Neglecting it can cost you in the long run, and even in the short run.

Those familiar with Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People already know that a key part of weekly planning is to Review Your Roles (such as Active Learner, Web designer, Consultant, Financial Planner, …) and identify the “Big Rocks” for selected ones. Invariably when I do this I think of something I should do during the following week that is not already on my Task list. Often it’s something like “Have lunch with …” or “Get away for the weekend,” but it’s something I feel like I need to do in a specific role. The weekly planning session is also an excellent time to review your mission and also your goals, to see if you’re on target with your goals and to take action if not.

After I’ve done this, I review upcoming appointments to see if there are any meetings or deadlines I need to prepare for.

Note that it’s a good practice to show project deadlines on your calendar. The way I like to do this is with an all-day appointment in Google Calendar.
The final steps in the process are to identify Focus Items and to consider scheduling time for the most important tasks. I generally schedule my “Big Rocks” for a specific day and/or time (sometimes just as an all-day appointment). You should also consider setting aside time to work on specific projects or to do specific types of work (such as @Computer tasks).

Consistent and thorough weekly planning can help put you and keep you on top of your life. Hopefully these tips will help you in your weekly planning.

Filed Under: Productivity

Music

James Daniel CampfestPerforming music has and I hope will always remain a core part of my life.

Some of my first memories are of my Dad singing away his sadness with a beer after midnight, my Grandfather smiling from the big-band stage as people danced to the old-time rhythms he played on the drums, and how much better a white suit looked on me whenever I had a musical instrument in my hands, even though I was just 3 years old…

Whether it was blues, rock ‘n’ roll, cabaret, heavy metal, Christian worship or celtic rock,  I revelled in every moment of my music career in all the places where I’ve performed, each country and each concert. But most of all I loved the feeling of comradeship which is the glue that holds together any lasting music group, and experiencing life with my good friends, filling the space between the notes…

What do I listen to? Check out this list.

Here’s a short video clip of some of our performances:

Filed Under: Life

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