Milk, Melbourne and Milford Sound

Milk, Melbourne and Milford Sound

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...
Making Managing Or Both?

Making Managing Or Both?

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...
Waiting for a new Business Model

Waiting for a new Business Model

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...
Making Managing Or Both?

Newspapers & Business Models

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...
Choosing a Great WordPress Theme

Choosing a Great WordPress Theme

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...
Vision and Town Planning

Vision and Town Planning

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...
Vision and Town Planning

Video State of 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...
Vision and Town Planning

WordPress as a Platform

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...
Vision and Town Planning

Creating Value on Twitter

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...