I was recently interviewed by Tom Murrell in delightful Subiaco on the topic of marketing strategies that will work in tough times online. In this podcase we talked about new trends in social marketing, blogging for business and other ways of keeping in touch with your audience. We also discussed new disruptive technologies such as [...]
Find the top 100 web apps as per BRW at Ross Dawson’s blog here Thanks to Ross Dawson for compiling the list onto his blog, and great to see so many great ideas out of Perth (which has been described by people such as Christopher Golis who established Nanyang Ventures and wrote “Enterprise and Venture [...]
At our recent “Chatham House” meeting (graduates of the AICD course in Perth) we discussed the issues of: 1. Some of the great practical advice that graduates of the AICD Company Directors course had been able to apply; and 2. The legal issues and risks of being a director, particularly non-executive The course is very [...]
Check out http://www.resilientfutures.org/2008/06/what-can-we-learn-from-the-wa-gas-crisis/ From that post: On June 3 a massive gas explosion happened sparking a gas crisis in the state at Varanus – a small island off the North West coast of Western Australia. About 30% of WA’s energy supply was dependent on the pipeline from Varanus for their energy needs. Perth is now on [...]
The close of day 1 was the Innovate Session at Home, Cockle Bay Wharf. Speaking with some of the people from CSIRO there are some really interesting innovations coming through in the IT area, which has been an underpromoted area. Worth keeping a watching brief…. check it out at http://www.csiro.au/events/CeBIT2008.html
Over 750 exhibitors and 40 000 attendees. For 3 days the red flags of Cebit own Cockle Bay Wharf and the Sydney Convention Centre. Must say I was very impressed with the sheer scale of Cebit in Sydney – over 40000 visitors over 3 days. Gilad Greenbaum Director IT, Hannover Fairs, has done a wonderful [...]
Techramp is an exciting one day session as part of the Transaction 2.0 day at Cebit. There is a great cast of first class presenters. The speakers are people have been there and have got both the scars and rewards to prove it. I’ve been lucky enough to be invited to chair the Techramp sessions.So if you are a startup [...]
The Startups Carnival runs from March 3 to 17 2008 and is a great opportunity for those people trying to get a new initiative off the ground in the technology space. With an initial focus towards Web 2.0 / Social Networking but also inclusive of other technology environments, initiatives in green technology, it will be [...]
I was flicking through one of my old journals (if you want to read up on the value of keeping a journal or how to, then check out 5 Steps to Journal Writing by a friend of mine, Todd Hutchinson), and came across 4 quotes I noted after reading a book of Shakespeare quotes. We [...]
In receiving another invite from a colleague on Plaxo I wondered if anyone else had the frustration that comes from too many digital persona’s…. In summary, there are too many email addresses (work, home – via blog name, new service provider, old service provider, old company, new mobile phone company, Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail etc etc….). [...]
