Moving From Social To A Business Website
LinkedIn Posts
Many of you will know that I have a good following on LinkedIn with about 17,000 who see the posts. However over the past few months this has all but stopped. There were a few reasons for this and most significantly is that it was taking a lot of time with little return for the business, and after one upsetting incident it occurred to me that it had gone the way of Facebook and was now scourged with outrage and keyboard warriors.
When looking back at the site, the best performing posts were about life as a Dubai expatriate with selfies. It was too far removed from my business and professional networking, so it has now stopped.
If I’m not on LinkedIn, then what next?
Well, this weekly newsletter will be where most of the summarized information will come from. I’ve always enjoyed sharing and engaging through these missives, and now the effort can go into these shorter, more succinct emails.
I’m also going to fire up the blog section on the Boston Warwick website so general ideas and posts can go there, along with copies of this newsletter. The white papers and research articles will also be there for download.
Weekly Roundup
As the UK heads towards its general election, where there is almost certainly going to be a change in government, and the US marches on to the big decision later this year, we are seeing some promising underlying financials. The ECB’s rate cut this week is likely to boost trade as consumers pick up their spending ahead of the peak seasons.
IATA held its AGM in Dubai this week, and from the interviews with all of the execs present, there was one consistent theme . . . Boeing is improving, although it will be years before they are back at full production. The words ‘supply chain’ were mentioned a few times as being a main challenge for the Boeing production teams. And across some of the bigger airlines the fleets are being held for longer (some retrofitted) to accomodate the late arrive of planned deliveries.
NVIDIA became more valuable than Apple for a couple of hours as it surpassed the $3 trillion market cap and was still some way off Microsoft’s monster $3.16 trillion. For supply chains this means that shorter journies for the raw materials to make the chips will be necessary to meet demand. And with the US CHIPS act firmly placed to support this, there will be less red tape and more interest from the regulators to support semiconductor production and in turn make life easier for other essential industries (food, pharma etc)
And finally, there was a busy week for the teams at ORD this week. Alec Reicher who works airside is quite the photographer and took the stunning picture below. Check him out for more of these great shots
What we see from across the worlds of aviation, international trade, and supply chain.
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Until next week . . .
James