Archive for the ‘Expert Interview’ Category

If you’ve ever wanted a hands-on course for getting started with social media, Tim Martin is your man.  He runs great courses and is a popular speaker. I’ve been following Tim on Twitter for many years and had the pleasure of catching up with him in Melbourne recently.  I also got to interview him about [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

David Meerman Scott co-created the Web Strategy Planning Template with Bluewire Media in 2010.  It was designed as a free tool to help organisations develop their web marketing strategy. When David was in Australia earlier this year, we asked him to explain how to use the template and why it is so useful. David Meerman Scott: [...]

Jim Stewart is an SEO specialist and I asked him for two SEO tips that we may not know. Here is a transcript: Two major tips for SEO that are often overlooked are: 1. Use Google Webmaster Tools Most people have got Google Analytics setup but they haven’t got Google Webmaster Tools setup. The reason [...]

Vivienne Storey from Blands Law shares her advice on why you need a social media policy and how it serves as a great training tool. Here is a transcript: OK, it’s Vivienne Storey from Blands Law. We specialise in writing Social Media Policies for companies and I just wanted to highlight an important aspect of having [...]

Keith Ferrazzi is a relationship expert who wrote Never Eat Alone and Who’s Got Your Back – both of which I love.  He came out to Australia recently thanks to The Growth Faculty and gave a workshop.  His thoughts on social media are worth sharing! Below is a transcript too. Hi this is Keith Ferrazzi, [...]

“You have to meet Andrew Griffiths!” That’s what I was told when I had the pleasure of meeting Wendy Ackland, Emmy Kerrigan and John ‘JV’ Vickary at an AMI social media workshop that I facilitated in Cairns. It turns out Andrew Griffiths is Australia’s best selling business author, from Cairns and quite a character! Andrew Griffiths is a [...]

Dave Peck (or Britney!) During my time in San Francisco I was lucky enough to meet and interview Dave Peck – the social media strategist for Meshin. He’s based out of Palo Alto Research Centre (home of the ethernet) in Silicon Valley. Dave’s career is pretty remarkable – it was kick-started while he was playing [...]