Archive for September 2011

If you want to know how to get things done, then Scott Belsky, CEO of Behance, is your man. A good friend of ours Liz Watson, gave us the heads up on Scott’s presentation for Portable Talks when Adam was reading Scott’s book “Making Ideas Happen“. It was great timing and a fantastic presentation. Personally [...]

Tuesday and Wednesday this week were like a business improvement bootcamp! Adam and I went along to another great Verne Harnish Rockefeller Habits event put on by The Growth Faculty on Tuesday and sat next to Derek Hodge, a TEC (The Executive Connection) Group Chair. With a full day of Verne under our belts and sharing [...]

Ten weeks after starting at Bluewire Media and I am starting to feel like I have some clue about the crazy world of web. If you asked my colleagues they would still call me a rank amateur but in my head I am moving ahead in leaps and bounds. I have always been an avid [...]

We all want a beautiful, unique, functional website for our business but many of us have no real idea what it might cost to get one. While not always fun, talking dollars and cents will act as a reality check on the scope of your website design project. Whether you’re building from scratch or upgrading [...]

Did your Mummy teach you to share? Here’s hoping she did because in the new world of marketing on the web, sharing is key. When I started working at Bluewire Media the first thing I noticed was how much “stuff” they gave away — I’m talking seriously helpful information, expert knowledge and wisdom, practical advice [...]

The debate around the national broadband network often seems to be far more political than ‘what’s in it for us.’ However I’ve just discovered a book that answers this question for us — the business owners, online marketers and online shoppers! A Faster Future I’ve been reading the book called “A Faster Future” by Brad Howarth [...]

Liz Wiseman is one of our favourite authors and the principles from her bestselling book Multipliers: How The Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter have been very popular with our team at Bluewire. Liz was in Sydney recently and I had the chance to ask her a question that had been on my mind for while.  “Do [...]

So, my time here at Bluewire as a marketing intern from QUT has been spent editing videos the guys have done with industry leaders and clients on how they use the web to do business. Why publish videos? To quote David Meerman Scott, “On the web, you are what you publish” I must confess i [...]

The first of a few mobile projects in the pipeline for BAC here at Bluewire Media, has officially launched or “taken off” if you can excuse the pun. Quietly tonight, while the usual busy Brisbane Airport slows down just a tad, the launch button on their new Mobile Optimised Website was pushed. We’re pretty of proud [...]