Peter Dutton MP are you for or against the filter?

It’s an election year. I am the consumer. My single vote is meant to count. I want to know where politicians vying for my vote stand. I want them to earn my vote, or accept the consequence. I want politicians the country over to step out from the shadows of their mighty parties and their leaders, and stand for [...]

Getting movie tickets shouldn’t be such an event.

This post first started in early 2009, back when the Event Cinemas site was still found at the greaterunion.com.au domain. As evidenced across social media channels, many users were frustrated by an awkward and poorly serviced website provided by one of Australia’s leading entertainment providers. I wanted to summarise many of the site failures into [...]

Education is meant to be about learning

Today, the launch of the My School website occurred. It was heavily promoted, and given how controversial the scoring system and the way schools can be compared has been, it was always going to be a pretty obvious heavy first day of usage. It was very disappointing (albeit a little expected) to see that the site has [...]

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All that glitters is not gold!

Last night a person (yes a real human) made several mistakes. They made an error and then the attempts to manage it weren’t so great and things didn’t exactly resolve themselves as they could have. Ever happened to you? In your working life, have you ever made one of those mistakes that sent chills down your [...]

A tweeterview about The Perfect Gift for a Man

Today I tweeterviewed co-creator of the concept and book ‘The Perfect Gift for a Man’, Gavin Heaton (@servantofchaos). This was a follow up to a previous post about the launch of the book. Yes it is a shameless plug for the book, but then why not. It is a serious cause. Importantly the tweeterview provides some additional [...]

A dummies guide to understanding Tweet utility

A dummies guide to understanding Tweet utility

Of course with all the hype/ marketing / spam and invariable boorish behaviour that will become part of the micro blogging scene, there is still great value and practicality in using Twitter. No matter what crafted ‘simple’ media skits, like Letterman, or Rove (boring Aussie TV) say, there is a purpose...
Posted in Business on Jul 23 by darryl read more
Marketing isn’t advertising – spend your $5k wisely

Marketing isn’t advertising – spend your $5k wisely

Yesterday a number of people tweeted out an article by Tony Eades on Anthill Online. It was titled “How to spend a Marketing Budget of $5000”. I read it and to be honest the song lyrics “let’s do the time warp again” seemed to echo around my head. It annoyed...
Posted in Business on Jul 16 by darryl read more
Yellow Pages – What are you used for?

Yellow Pages – What are you used for?

Last weekend I questioned people on Twitter about what they used their Yellow Pages for. Why? Well I have seen numerous TVC’s recently promoting how grand the Yellow Pages are, you know the end of buying season ads that run, validating the cost of advertising. The adverts reinforce for me how useless...
Posted in Business, Misc. on Jul 10 by darryl read more
Some thoughts for my boys – Man week

Some thoughts for my boys – Man week

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 entry...
Posted in Life, Misc. on Jul 08 by darryl read more
Can your business cope without technology?

Can your business cope without technology?

No I didn’t just swear. It is a very real question. When something happens twice to me in very quick succession I often think it means I am supposed to take notice. I have. So you’d better too! On Saturday while getting some last minute paint for our old office (a couple...
Posted in Business, ireckon on Jun 29 by darryl read more
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