If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!With the widespread protests against New Zealand’s copyright law that was suppose to come into existence this month, government officials recognize that something is wrong. The government is hoping that ISPs can come up with a “code of practice” to [...]
Feb 2009 was a month for twitter. Recently Twitter closed a $35m (NZ$68.1m) round of venture capital investment at a valuation of about $250m during the economic crisis. Secondly a research from Pew internet and American Life Project revealed that 11 per cent of Americans have used a service such as Twitter, Third, in a [...]
The New Zealand publishing business Fairfax reported a 29 per cent decline in profit in the six months to December 31 in Australian dollar terms, but online auction business Trade Me posted a 17 per cent increase in profit in New Zealand dollar terms. Source NZ Herald
Social media marketing is specifically using social networks, blogs, social media to facilitate word of mouth marketing. Its not the same as word of mouth marketing. Its always great to visually view what someone is trying to say so i thought this video might help.
The Google AdWords blog has announced the new display URL policy will take effect this week of February 24th. The new policy, which was reported by Barry Schwartz at the Search Engine Round table about a month ago, will disallow multiple display domains per ad group.
Antony Beswick from NZ is heading the initiative held by technology giant Sony Ericsson to help telcos get a piece of the social web. At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Sony Ericsson unveiled a web-hosted “white label” portal. This white label application lets mobile network operators provide their own-branded social networking sites to allow [...]
Twitter is working to convert its popularity into a business. Twitter has begun testing its search features on a few accounts prior to releases it in the open. The search is now please on the main Twitter.com page. This information was provided by Twitter co-founder Biz Stone in a blog posting.
Microsoft had a payroll error and overpaid severance to some of its recently laid off employees, they are now asking for their money back. It appears that Microsoft HR isn’t even bothering to explain how it happened
This is a grill session held by TechCrunch with a few venture capitalist. Its a good video for Entrepreneurs wanting to approach VC Funding.
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This session from TechCrunch speaks with individuals on the various strategies for Exists, Mergers and Acquisitions.
When i commenced my journey on twitter I would feel really bad not to follow someone especially when they are following me. Social Media services and consultancy is getting to be a complete mess in some instances. So when i commenced using Twitter every day i would login to Twitter and geez my dashboard would [...]
In today’s busy world how many of us actually have our true friends near us when we need them? How many of us take time out to nurture a relationship and grow this into a friendship? I believe friendship is and will always be sacred in my books. Its a bond that you nurture and [...]
Ever day that passes by i aim at doing less and less of the normal corporate business day in and day out tasks.My typical day lately has been writing a post, managing social media campaigns, automating some of my processes, chatting online with friends via IM, facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, sms and of course meeting with [...]
I know it’s not pleasant to think of such a crazy thought but all of us plan our offline will, we all take life insurance, but we don’t think about the impact our social profiles would have on our next generation. Yesterday was a sad day for me as one of my friend’s dad passed [...]
Today I attended an amazing meeting which was focused around networking and man people spoke about their business experiences. We each had to speak about how we handled objections or how we dealt with a situation where we may have been screwed over for a reason. If you are like me then the first thing [...]
