Anna Tobin

Taking the first steps
There’s no denying that becoming more sustainable is a hot topic right now, and rightly so. But where to start?
If we all take steps to reduce our impact on the environment, the world would be a much healthier place. So, here are 10 simple steps to help you go greener.
1. Shop at food refill shops
There are a growing number of food refill shops across the UK – you can find one near you by searching online. To cut down on waste packaging, take your own reusable container...

The blending of video production and distribution techniques with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) is now at the stage when it needs to move from an expensive experiment to a profitable mass market success story. But, how feasible is this and over what time frame can it be achieved?
AI and ML have been trialled in various parts of the content chain over the last few years and some applications have even been quite widely adopted. The problem, argues Jacques-Edouard Guill...

Britt Ide reveals why she was so excited to join her first international Advisory Board and how she is helping other women in the energy industry to follow in her footsteps.

I think that if I didn’t live in England, I’d assume that outside of the cities it was just a very green and pleasant land, with a picturesque fairytale castle on every hill. I do live here, though, and there isn’t. But don’t dismay. If you know where to look, and I do, you can find some real-life historic castles from whose slit windows arrows have been shot and whose drawbridges have been raised against fiend and foe in the past.
Here are our suggestions for the best castles in England to v...

Anna Tobin, reports on the workshops that BASF has been running this month for SMEs.
The world’s largest chemical business, BASF, has a large network of companies in the UK. Over the last few weeks, it has run a series of workshops for those working in its supply chain to ensure that its UK infrastructure ...

Your room-by-room energy saving check list

Our homes are now not only our castles, they’re also our workplace, entertainment venue, restaurant and school.

Although there are some clear upsides to spending more time at home during lockdown – commuting less, wearing lounge gear on conference calls, and spending more time with loved ones – we’re encouraging people to think about how this could also impact your energy use and bills.

With a few tweaks here and there, you can bring energy use and c...

Feel free to debate, but aside from religious figures, surely the English playwright William Shakespeare is the most famous person ever to have walked this earth. His works feature on the curriculums of schools across the globe and his plays are acted out everywhere from tiny village halls to Hollywood. And what better way to introduce your children to the Bard than to take them to his birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon, a historic town about two hours by car or train from central London?
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There is a distinct difference between a Non-Executive Director (NED) and an Advisory Board Member (ABM). Boards benefit from the input of both, but it’s important to understand their unique roles and to know when to draw on their different skillsets.

Could you inspire the younger generation to follow in your footsteps?
A couple of years back I found out that my daughter was doing a project about journalism at her school. Being a finance journalist, I offered to go into her class and talk about what I did. I found it really rewarding and the children seemed really engaged too. So, I was delighted to discover that there is a national organisation Inspiring the Future whose mission is to encourage people from all sections of the career spect...

A feature of a house makeover in Bath, England, which I styled and wrote.

Once U.S.-based chip maker NVIDIA completes its $6.9 billion acquisition of Israeli tech company Mellanox in the next few months, Palestinian engineers contracted to work for Mellanox as reported by Reuters are set to share a $3.5 million payout.
With a shortage of engineers in Israel, the growing pool of talented Palestinian engineers is well placed to fill any gaps in Israel's burgeoning tech sector and Israeli firms are offering stock options to demonstrate to potential Palestinian contrac...

Could rising at dawn make your more alert, energetic and focused for the rest of the day? Anna Tobin takes a look at this new wake-up call.
Before the advent of the electric light, our internal body clock – scientifically known as the circadian rhythm and area of our brains that responds to light – was set by the sun and the moon; we rose at dawn and went to bed at nightfall.
The advent of rolling TV and the Internet, emails pinging at all hours and twenty-four hour supermarkets, and even gym...

The 18-25 Generation Z and 26 -35 Millennials age groups pose interesting challenges for content providers. The Grabyo Global Video Trends Report 2019, which surveyed nearly 10,000 people across all ages and incomes from France, the USA, UK, Germany, Italy, Spain and Australia in March 2019, throws up thought-provoking data on their viewing habits, including those relating to social video.