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Posted on May 16, 2013 by Toby Jenkins

5 secs to Multiplier Leadership – Interview with Liz Wiseman

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Reading leadership books is one thing.

Implementing them? Putting the philosophies into practice? Figuring out which piece you should do first? Now that is something that can be really daunting in amongst a day filled with high priority, time sensitive issues you need to deal with.

So what to do?

In this post, I interview Liz Wiseman – Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter, a speaker and executive advisor.  Liz shares some great leadership insights covering business, education, parenting and sport.

It’s a long ranging interview [approx 28 mins] triggered by her new book focussing on the education sector: The Multiplier Effect: Tapping the Genius Inside Our Schools.…

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Posted on May 15, 2013 by Toby Jenkins

Want to win $25,000? 2013 Gamification World Championships, San Francisco

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I’ve heard a bit about “Gamification” as a business philosophy over the years – the idea that by applying the principles of game design techniques to non-game experiences, you can help to drive user behaviour. So I thought there might be a few people in our readership interested (and significantly better qualified) to hear that the inaugural Gamification World Championships are on in San Francisco.

Here’s a bit more detail:

Overview
The 2013 Gamification World Championships is a fun, innovative and professional competition that celebrates the highest
standards of Gamification excellence among students and professionals worldwide.…

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Posted on May 14, 2013 by Lesley Hays

Is your web developer running these 2 easy tests?

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Upgrade Chrome, Firefox, Safari and more at BrowseHappy.com

From the weekly Success Insights series: Lessons from our Client Success Programs

Last week, I said that browser testing didn’t finish with your website launch and promised a follow-up explaining how to manage ongoing testing. So here it is!

1. Check new releases monthly

Quickly run your website through the latest version of the major browsers. The following is the order of importance to check based on likelihood of bugs and popularity, and you might even ignore Safari or Opera based on the list of browsers you made last week.…

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Posted on May 14, 2013 by Charles Trentham

Internet security and the future of the password

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This is a guest post.

Charles Trentham is diehard tech blogger who loves to write about software, technology, and future science. After retiring from a small telecom startup after the bubble burst, he’s been blogging fulltime, including some freeland work on topics like internet security in order to feed his tech habits.  He enjoys spending time with his family and Kelpie, named Elaine.

Welcome Charles.

At any given time and across any given news site it’s clear to see that the internet landscape is changing; sometimes for better and sometimes for the worst.…

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Posted on May 7, 2013 by Adam Franklin

How to do Content Marketing like the Godfather Joe Pulizzi

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Joe Pulizzi is the godfather of content marketing – founder of the Content Marketing Institute, Content Marketing World, Chief Content Officer, and the author of Get Content Get Customers, speaker and blogger.

I just missed out on seeing Joe Pulizzi in Australia when he was out in March, but I got the chance catch up via Skype and interview him. Here we get to talk ‘shop’ and discover how to content marketing like a ‘godfather’!

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Adam Franklin:  Hi, it’s Adam Franklin and I’m very happy to be here with Joe Pulizzi.…

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Posted on May 7, 2013 by Vishal Gumber

Market your restaurant the Pinterest way

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This is a guest post.

Vishal Gumber is the founder of Appsquare, an Australian app development company that creates innovative apps, provides part funding for selected app ideas and also helps app developers get funding through its network of Venture Capitalists and Angel Investors.

Welcome Vishal.

Social media is going visual and Pinterest has a lot to do with it.
Because pictures really do speak more than words – especially in the restaurant business – and there’s a lot you can convey better through a single image than with a whole page of text, you ought to get yourself active on Pinterest right now!…

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Posted on May 6, 2013 by Lesley Hays

How to test for 99% of your website visitors by finding your top 8 browsers

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From the weekly Success Insights series: Lessons from our Client Success Programs

Hopefully, your website was tested in lots of different browsers while it was being built, but now you probably only look at it in the one you use all the time. You aren’t regularly seeing what all your visitors are seeing and could be missing bugs or opportunities to use new technology!

Popular browsers like Chrome and Firefox are updated all the time in the background and a little double-checking now and then will pick up small issues and give you a chance to implement the latest best practices. …

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Posted on Apr 30, 2013 by Adam Franklin

Timbo Reid on Push vs Pull marketing

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Tim Reid is a marketing coach, prolific speaker, podcaster, blogger and author, specialising in business marketing.   He contributes to his own podcasts and heaps of other sites, blogs and magazines.  

With 20 years experience in corporate marketing, his practical experience underpins his speaking and writing popularity.  Among all these other things, Tim is the founder and host of Australia’s #1 marketing podcast Small Business Big Marketing with a global audience across 94 countries. 

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Adam Franklin:  Hi there, so it’s Adam Franklin and I’m here with Tim Reid, host of Australia’s number one marketing podcast, Small Business, Big Marketing.…

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Posted on Apr 30, 2013 by Lesley Hays

The Scorecard: How to record your Web Strategy Goals

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From the weekly Success Insights series: Lessons from our Client Success Programs

A few weeks ago, I explained how we define and review a Web Strategy with goals and metrics. Now, I thought I’d give a simple example of how this concept works in practice.

An example of a Web Strategy Scorecard goal

Goal 3: Retain and improve relationships with existing customers

Support, service and communicate with existing customers through social media and the website.

Metric Target Tracked
“Customer Centre” visitors 50 per week Google Analytics (www.clientwebsite.com)
Downloads of customer information (forms, brochures etc.) 200 per week Google Analytics (www.clientwebsite.com)

This way of recording the goal and metrics shows:

  • The basic business goal
  • A description of how online activities can help meet this goal
  • Two clear metrics to track, directly related to the goal
  • The targets that will show that this goal is being met
  • Exactly where to find each figure so we know how to set up our reporting systems and so anyone else can use this Scorecard later.
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Posted on Apr 28, 2013 by Adam Franklin

The Catch 22 of Creating Positive Experiences – Brian Solis review

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In Brian Solis’ new book “What’s the Future of Business?“ I was struck with what I think are the two real challenge faced by many marketers and businesses.

The first challenge is trying to get off the never ending treadmill of “responding to negative” client experiences (so that we can focus on the positive).

The second challenge is in actually creating the positive experiences because we must cross a chasm and go through the discomfort of trying things that don’t work.

Yes it’s time to invest in proactive experiences… Experience is everything.

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Posted on Apr 27, 2013 by Angus Russell

Solving the Issue of Context in Responsive Web Design

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A while ago I wrote an article titled Responsive Web Design vs Separate Mobile Site – Which is right for you? As the title suggests, it compared responsive web design to building a separate mobile site, and the reasons you might choose one over the other. I highlighted three core considerations when deciding which path to take: context, content, and your current situation. Of these, the most important consideration in most cases, is context.

“Context” as a consideration in responsive web design has been discussed and debated at length since Ethan Marcotte introduced RWD to the world in 2010.…

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