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There’s a riot in your neighbourhood!

Let me start by saying I am saddened by the events in London, and having lived in London during earlier riots and violent periods, I feel for those there that are affected. There are obviously deeper things going on in Britain, and have been over many decades, than many of...

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Ireckon forms new partnership – BlueGlass Australia

Today is an exciting time for Ireckon. It’s the start of a new chapter in our company. For over 13 years Ireckon has forged its way from the very early days of Web Development and Marketing in Australia . We have done this as one company with one vision and...

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It has to work. Not for you for your client.

Today I received an email, from a raving fan of my team. Basically my team do the work so that’s who our customers love really. He wasn’t always this way. Part way through this project, our first with him, a few road bumps occurred. But we dealt with them and...

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You want feedback? I’ll give you feedback Zendesk!

Enough already. There is a time for a simple generic letter that you mass use, but in responding to a complaint it sure isn’t it. In business we all struggle to allow for scalability in our services but also retain the personal touch. This is never harder than in a...

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SMX Sydney 2010 a little preview with Greg Boser

Last week I had the pleasure of running a live tweeterview with Greg Boser (@gregboser), about SMX Sydney, at which he will be presenting, and Search in general terms. Having finally met Greg in person at last year’s SMX event, it was a good prelude to hearing his thoughts again...

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Listening on the web for business 101

It happened again this week. I was discussing online strategies with a business, only to discover that they do not have even a basic listening program in place for electronic chatter about themselves. I realise that before online media came along it was extremely easy to stick your head in...

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the ireckon amazing race wrap up #irace

Friday December 11, 2009 1pm After keeping it a complete secret, I set up the staff to compete in an amazing race around Brisbane CBD and close surrounds (detail here). The Twitter stream was recorded using the hash tag #irace It was a stinking hot day (33 deg C) and...

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ireckon it’s an amazing race #irace

Today for something a little different I have set up an ‘Amazing Race’ around Brisbane CBD as part of the staff Xmas party. There are a whole lot of weird things going on and prizes for the winning team. There will be three teams of four racing about doing weird...

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How safe is your offline data?

Yesterday morning the business residents of Woolloongabba (where our office lives), were inundated with a paper flood. I didn’t witness the event, but drove in not long after, to a bunch of council workers clearing a road covered in paper. Logan Road was a wash with someone’s documents. Being the...

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