What I want my sons to know about growing up as a man. I am a little late to the punch on this one given #Manweek was last week but this post has been in draft since then and has been eating away at me. I first read Mark Pollard’s...
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Early wrap up on SMX Sydney
04 Apr
In case you didn’t get the flurry of tweets on my account this week, you wouldn’t know I have been at SMX Sydney 2009. SMX stands for Search Marketing Expo. This pretty much sums up the conference. I have been working in the web for a rather long time now,...
Teamwork is a great thing to watch
13 Feb
Last night we (ireckon) were part of #bnetwestival (The Brisbane Twestival), which was a great bunch of young (and some not so young) Volunteers pitching themselves together to get a result for someone else. What motivates people, already busy and challenged enough, to have 4 weeks to plan a public...
Choosing the right tool for the job, gardens or web tech, it saves in the end.
19 Jan
My camping holiday is over again. I came back to my semi rural property overgrown and messy. My ride-on mower had gone to God; it was hot and didn’t look like I was in for much fun at all. Several options ran through my head: Can I force this old...
Leaping out of your comfort zone, and Social Media
13 Jan
Ok, so those that follow my tweets will know yesterday evening I took a pretty big challenge for me and did a tandem parachute jump. At 13 I wouldn’t stand on a chair for the height. I have progressively through the years, thanks to Physics teacher Fred Flintstone (nickname), used...
Recruiting, with a little help from your friends!
12 Jan
One of the lessons I learned last year was that not paying attention to our culture when recruiting, was to the detriment of my business. (see point 3 of Riding across bumpy ground). Over my holiday this year, I have reflected on how I used to interview staff at an...
Riding across bumpy ground.
31 Dec
It is New Years Eve down under, and no better time to reflect on the past year than now. It is a hot and muggy day, some might say this is how they feel 2008 has been. Hot under the financial blowtorch and feeling like you have been a little...
There are no ‘zero cost’ items in web development
05 Dec
This seems to be my ‘theme de mois’ at present. Perhaps it has come from a realisation that it is very easy in web development to include a few extras and people miss the actual value of them. A challenge while managing and building web applications, and sites, is to...
Cover you mean Printed, then that's a rule... 22 days ago