by JAK | Jul 14, 2012 | culture, music
Today is an overcast but beautiful day in Auckland. Its perfect for a bike ride and a swim but then in my world every day is perfect for those. Have you ever had one of those days where you are really happy but you want to weep at the same time? We live in...
by JAK | Jun 30, 2012 | culture, industry futures
As the father of a very creative daughter who loves to design and make all kinds of things I am keen for her to check in with subject matters experts across a wide range of disciplines. So on Thursday the super kid and I went into the Engineering school for an hour to...
by JAK | Dec 3, 2010 | big ideas, TEDx
Back on Sept 26th along with 450 others we made it across the bridge to TEDxAuckland 2010. I was able to take my daughter (9 going on 19) and one of my work colleagues. As DialogCRM I was the CRM Partner for the event and helped out on a few other areas and was...
by JAK | Aug 25, 2010 | big ideas
At last years TEDxAkl event one of the best presentations was by Scott Gilmour of “ihaveadream” I’ve had the pleasure of hanging out with Scott before and so when the programme opened at Wesley I took my daughter along for a look. She goes to a...
by JAK | Aug 16, 2010 | big ideas, industry futures, online marketing
When my daughter was 3 she used to ask what I did for a job. She has a much better idea now but to keep things simple I used to say something like this. “I talk with people, I take lots of notes. Then some web stuff.” Fairly often now some of this takes...
