April, 2009
Get Dumb and Get Noticed
How long have you been in your industry or field of expertise?
6 months?
6 years?
Longer? Shorter? Somewhere in between?
Chances are, that you know more than you think you do. Chances are, you are somewhat of an expert or a guru.
I hear you saying, ‘C’mon, that’s bull-dust, I know a lot of people in my industry that [...]
Micro-Lending in Plain English
I made this video last week to show our church how micro-lending and micro-enterprise work in thrid world and developing countries.
Nat and I love heading up the missions department at Kings – this was a bit of fun to make too.
YouTube Direkt
If you want to know more or get involved in making a difference through [...]
It’s getting personal
It might surprise many of us that the world is getting smaller.
And more personal.
Because of the web.
Have you noticed why facebook and twitter are really popular?
Have you noticed that a lot of people spend a lot of time on them. Interacting with other people.
I want to deal with people too.
Not corporations.
Not companies.
And when I have [...]
When Extraordinary things happen. A case study: Susan Boyle
If you haven’t seen or heard of Susan Boyle yet… well… you’ve obviously not logged into your facebook account or watched TV or read the newspapers.
Brittains Got Talent is a talent show that, last week, got it’s largest surprise ever. You have to watch this video to know what I mean. Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY
The [...]
Educate your visitors using YouTube video
Quite often we build sites with a whole mass of cool features and just expect everyone to know what all the bells and whistles are for and where people should start.
It’s always interesting to see other people open your site(s) only to ask ‘what do I do?’ whilst frantically moving their mouse around the screen.
One [...]
28 New Facebook accounts every minute
According to this article, Facebook gained 100 million new users over the last 8 months.
That’s ROUGHLY 28 per minute,
1680 per hour
40,320 per day
1,300,000 per month
WOW,
No wonder 90% of US Marketers have jumped onboard the social media bandwagon to see what all the fuss is about.
Strangely though, I read today that a lot of people studying [...]
Early beginnings of nothing new
U2’s Bono aka paul_hewson recently said on Twitter: “The emergence and refinement of social media could be one of the greatest and quietest cultural revolutions in history.”
The important thing to remember in all of this Social Media talk is that we are not talking about tools that “needs” to exist. Mankind, for thousands of years, [...]
Baby boomers and social media
According to an article written on multichannelmerchant.com:
More than 30 million baby boomers now connect on LinkedIn, and even more are on Twitter. And it doesn’t stop there. According to recent data from Inside Facebook, the number of U.S. Facebook users over age 35 doubled in 60 days–and is still on the rise. more…
The important thing [...]
69 percent of Australians read blogs
According to a recent study:
69% of Australians read other people’s blogs, on average two to three times a week. While this is also considerably lower than many Asian markets, it is still a big number, indicating the interest Australians have in user-generated content. …more
Yet, very few people that start blogging or writing online, continue. They [...]
Hunt Resort and Virgin Blue help Victorian Bushfire Victims
This just out – Hunt Resort and Virgin Blue help Victorian Bushfire Victims by getting them to Fitzroy Island in North Queensland for a much needed getaway from the turmoil and devastation.
Check out the Fitzroy Island Fire Escape initiative here: http://www.fitzroyislandfireescape.com
What a fantastic and generous idea.
