by JAK | Jul 30, 2009 | industry futures
The search for a new business model or new version which makes more sense today is a recurring background story or theme in many business sectors. A truly great business is one that re-invents itself and especially the business model like Shai Agassi is doing with the...
by JAK | Jul 21, 2009 | industry futures
Bernard Hickey has a fine debate going over at his blog on Interest.co.nz since last Friday Opinion: How to profitably publish financial news online for free July 17th, 2009 By Bernard Hickey “Earlier today NBR publisher Barry Colman announced he was going to...
by JAK | Jul 9, 2009 | WordPress
Helping clients plan to get the best out of their WordPress sites is something that I really enjoy. Having a theme library loaded and switching between them for instant changes to “the look and feel” is a fun moment in the discovery planning process. For...
by JAK | Jun 29, 2009 | big ideas
I know some great planners and architects in Auckland and other cities. So why is it that every time we get a chance to do something important in the city – it is all presented as a fait accompli by some bureaucrat or other vested interest at break neck speed...
by JAK | Jun 26, 2009 | WordPress
As one of the organisers for Wordcamp NZ I’m very interested in what happens at other wordcamps around the world. They are community based events organised around WordPress users of all shapes and dimensions globally. Next week I’ll write about WordPress...
by JAK | Jun 20, 2009 | big ideas, culture, industry futures, TED
Until very recently the trade-off between richness and reach with media and communications tools on the internet has seen mixed results but we are very close to some exciting breakthroughs. This means news is old when it gets through the media process as savvy...
by JAK | Jun 15, 2009 | WordPress
For the past 3.5 years I have been using WordPress to power this blog and also as a content management framework for a whole series of other websites that I develop and/or manage in some way. Ironically I haven’t posted specifically on the WordPress publishing...
by JAK | Jun 10, 2009 | big ideas, culture, online marketing
Here are three great post insights on how twitter is changing the game for all businesses. The three featured writers are Andrew Dubber, Dr Mark Drapeau and Laurel Papworth. Andrew Dubber has just noted that this is one of the top posts on his site this year. Read...
by JAK | Jun 6, 2009 | big ideas, culture, development
One of the developing trends I have been noticing is the big rise in uber-connected people leveraging their social and business networks for a common cause. I support this but wonder if some of the media ripples from the all of this activity are being somewhat...
by JAK | May 28, 2009 | industry futures, online marketing
I was on Twitter a couple of years ago and terminated my account after a few days as there was no one the network. I should have kept my account but who could have foreseen what has happened. Twitter has had a huge rise in popularity in the past 6 months as...
