Archive for September 2009

When a business mentor put me onto the fact that AIM (Australian Institute of Management) was hosting an “open-house” on the Gold Coast I was quick to register.  After all, the last event I attended was very enjoyable & useful. I attended for the best part of a day but missed 2.5 sessions due to [...]

Hands up if you’re on Facebook…? According to Facebook’s latest stats, over 300 million of you are. 50% of you are logging in daily and the fastest growing demographic is 35 year olds and older! To put that in context, if Facebook were a country it would be 4th largest in the world (and nearly [...]

Playfulness, usability and context: the three pillars of a delightful user experience — User Experience Blog 10 common typography mistakes — The Design Cubicle Effective Twitter backgrounds: examples and best practices — Smashing Magazine 10 useful usability findings and guidelines — Smashing Magazine Simplicity in good web design: advantages & how to — Noupe Follow [...]

Here’s a video I’ve seen played a few times lately which to be honest gives me goosebumps. Just to get you started, here are some mind blowing facts from first 30 seconds: By 2010, Gen Ys will outnumber Baby Boomers 96% will be on a social network Social media has taken over porn as the [...]

To RT or not to RT, that is the question. RT (for those unfamiliar with the abbreviation) stands for retweet and if you’ve ever come across anything interesting, funny or simply worth sharing to your followers you may have ‘retweeted a tweet’ at some point. A retweet in basic terms is to repeat/cite a message [...]

Latest google news service promises publishers money and readers — The Guardian 5 open source project management apps to watch — CIO Honesty is the best social media policy — Digital Tip Popular search engines in the 90s: then and now — Six Revisions 25 useful data visualisation and infographics resources — Smashing Magazine Download [...]

Human Centered Design Toolkit — IDEO Millions set to disconnect their fixed-line phones — Sydney Morning Herald The new Steve Jobs unveils new iPod Nano — Sydney Morning Herald Helvetical turns Google Calendar into a thing of beauty — Life Hacker Showcase of fresh and well designed online shops — Smashing Magazine 5 tools to [...]

Along with 45,000 other people, Bluewire Media team members ran, walked and talked the 10km Bridge to Brisbane fun run. Out of the Bluewire runners, Stuart Bowden took the 2009 honours in a record (Bluewire) time of 37:30 mins and was followed in by David Darbyshire (50:30 mins) and Sam Sargent (55:00mins). New recruit Montse Balbuena also finished her [...]

Conroy urged to ‘end net censorship farce’ — Sydney Morning Herald Adelaide commuters get free wireless entertainment platform — Anthill Online There’s no social media revolution — Paul Seaman’s Review Internet Explorer posts largest loss since ’08; Firefox, Chrome, Safari gain — ZD Net Google CEO Eric Schmidt on the future of search — Tech [...]

“Perfection takes infinity.” “Strategy + Execution.” “Ideas are free, execution is priceless.” All pieces of business advice that I think are so important!!! How does this tie back to CRM? Well, I recently finished a sales process consulting project with one of our clients Mandalay Technologies. I took away 3 key things that tie back [...]