This is pretty useful and I can never remember the exact syntax, so here it is for me (and now you) to remember.
In a Google spreadsheet, you can do an online currency conversion that looks up the exchange rate in real time, making my life much easier.
For example to get EUR to GBP just type
=googlefinance((”CURRENCY:EURGBP”))
(note: [...]

One of the things I often need to do is to calculate the number of work days between 2 dates in order to calculate billable days. There is a very useful function called NETWORKDAYS which does exactly this. It works the same in both Excel and Google Spreadsheets
The syntax is =NETWORKDAYS (start_date, end_date, [holidays])
example =NETWORKDAYS [...]

I was fortunate enough to attend the Google Atmosphere conference last week in London. My top 3 take aways were:

Cloud computing is a reality here and now, and is being used by businesses to reduce cost and redeploy expertise in a strategic manner
Even if your business is not considering how cloud computing can be used [...]

There are many benefits to cloud computing apps such as Google apps and Salesforce.com, especially in terms of reducing costs and allowing someone else to run things that are not part of your core business. However one of the downsides is that once you take the plunge and invest in a “cloud-based” application, it can [...]

This is an interesting innovation from US-based Magenn Power; a high altitude wind turbine that is designed to harness the powerful winds such as the low-level jet streams that exist at around 1000ft above ground level, by embedding a turbine in a balloon.
The ability to deflate and redeploy quickly would also make it pretty attractive [...]

This is an interesting webcast where Serena Software talks about their migration from an on-premise email system (Exchange) to a cloud-based solution (the well-known Google Apps)

Many IT teams feel threatened by cloud based services because they are not under their direct control. However, forward-thinking IT teams realise that the right strategy is to embrace the [...]

LocalGovCamp, an unconference for local government,  happened this last weekend (Saturday 20th June) – what an astonishing turnout -more than 130 people from Local Govt came along on a Saturday to talk about the future of local government, citizen engagement, smarter working and more…
Here is an interview by @davidwilcox with @carlhaggerty and @robgray (me) at [...]

Ever since I bought my Canon HV10, I had assumed that you needed to use the HD branded mini-dv tapes if you wanted to get uncompromised HD -quality recording. This was probably down to the guy in the shop telling me that I needed HD tapes (in order to sell me some) and I’d never [...]

I found this great wordpress plugin called WPTouch from Brave New Code which automatically creates an iPhone interface for your wordpress blog.

It’s brilliantly designed, clean and also shows the number of comments for each post.
You can easily browse categories, search and subscribe to RSS feeds directly from your iPhone.
If you are browsing this from your [...]

Good, clear presentation from the straight-talking analyst David Tebbutt on why social networking for business is a useful thing.
The actual presentation notes are also quite useful – click on the little slideshare icon if you want to view the notes. It’s a pity I can’t embed them…
The Business Value of Social Networking 
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