by JAK | Aug 8, 2010 | WordPress
Many of you know that I have been very busy working on #wordcampnz for the past 3 months. We just hosted 110+ of you at Unitec in Mt Albert on all things related to WordPress and the users. These are my personal thoughts however a version of this post will soon be...
by JAK | Jul 15, 2010 | industry futures, online marketing
We have been hearing that Facebook is due to hit 500m users this month. As a student of human behaviour this seems to be one time when the passenger get to be the driver in pretty much any way they choose. Unlike in many areas Facebook is ideal for 500 m niches of 1...
by JAK | May 25, 2010 | WordPress
One of the key value points that WordPress offers to its users is a seemingly inexhaustible function library of mini – applications or programming shortcuts. There is now such a huge supply of plugin extensions that making sense of which WordPress plugins to...
by JAK | May 13, 2010 | WordPress
Wellingtonian Dan Milward and myself got to WordCampSF back on May 1 in San Francisco. There were 750+ people there and for most of the day there were two streams running with more technical sessions downstairs and general – more road-map style sessions...
by JAK | May 1, 2010 | culture
I was in San Francisco at the end of April 2010 in time for my first U.S WordCamp. Here are some of the photos I took at the time some of them were posted on a NZ wordcamp site which has since been archived. I cycled over the Golden Gate Bridge to Sausalito and then...
by JAK | Apr 12, 2010 | big ideas
Ironically even though we live in a world where ideas can be a force for positive good there are still those who view public discussion and comment as a problem. “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. ”...
by JAK | Dec 21, 2009 | big ideas, industry futures
With Christmas coming up time to hit the beach with a book (Southern hemisphere here). We have been through a precarious business year where our faith in the vagaries of the “free market” should have been very considerably challenged although I personally...
by JAK | Dec 7, 2009 | big ideas
If I was a farmer I’d be looking to win some friends in the cities and towns given the free ride they are getting regarding climate change impacts and planning. So why would a bunch of dairy farmers want to consider placing 18,000 up to 17,850 cows indoors for...
by JAK | Oct 15, 2009 | big ideas
This is my first post here for a few weeks. Its been all systems go with projects in all directions. A few weeks back I was at MarketingNow in Melbourne – my very favourite city and some of the best presentations I have heard in a long time. Stephen Johnson...
by JAK | Aug 24, 2009 | big ideas
One of the recurring themes in online marketing is how balance the demands of creative content generation with the imperatives of structure and management thinking including what is known as the managers timetable. Paul Graham understands the dilemma very well and...
