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The office is echoing quite a bit this week, because not only is our officemate Charlotte is away this week, but so is Marie. And she will be until February!There's a plan behind this. For some tim...
Image via WikipediaI know those far more learned than me have written about the problem or the paradox of choice, but I saw it in action at the Avondale Markets yesterday.It's a great place, full o...
Marie and I had a very special day today, took my mum out for her 70th birthday! (Don't tell anyone that's her age :)The occasion was sweetened by the presence of Mum's sister and brother-in-law, a...
Marie and I were at the mall on Friday, it had been a day of meetings, and we were in a mood to watch a movie.Trouble is, it was 4.43pm, and there weren't any movies starting till after 6. What? Ve...
Click to Play What is a community manager? We talk to John Lewis, who's a full-time community manager for web startup Ponoko.com. Ponoko lets p...
microsoft put too many features in word, so when the much lower-specced google docs came along, it seemed like a good - even better for some - alternative. But when a new browser comes along, it ha...
data portability has been positioned as a consumer privacy issue, but it's also a business marketing issue. Say you market through twitter. Great, but what if twitter (god forbid) went out of busin...
I gave myself a sore neck this weekend, and had to see the physio this morning. Ow! Spasms. I'm deeply impressed with Andrew at Total Body Physiotherapy in Titirangi. Here's what consultants can le...
It'd be interesting to know, right? So I asked the other day, and here's what a whole lot of you said: ayouens ...
Image via WikipediaIn my work as a storyteller, I've found that writing still accounts for a heck of a lot of getting the message across.Take the story of The Mars Phoenix Lander, for example. NASA...
I've been asked this several times as people try to figure out how iJump makes money: what do we actually do?It's a constantly evolving field, but here's our current take on it - we help businesses...
Image by Tonyç via FlickrSocial medai makes sense if you understand how people are. A good insight into people helps you build genuine empathy and relationships.But there are many ways of understan...
...and I'm happy about that. I believe the National/United Future/ACT coalition can enable the rest of us to do great things. Yet I'm a skeptical supporter, one who has met a few National Party peo...
Click to Play This week, Intergen (http://intergen.co.nz/) hosted a road trip where Andreas Stjernstr
Yesterday's history-making election of Barack Obama as the 44th US President was mind-numbingly awesome. Even though I was working alone in my office I was connected via Twitter, podcasts and strea...
I was going to use a clever headline like "The future of marketing, media and intellectual property" but then realised most people will want to read this post to hear what Lawrence Lessig said in A...
Click to Play When you have zero marketing budget, where do you start getting your message out? James Stewart put his own body on the line, cre...
Check out this excellent interview Chris Brogan did with Brea Grant, star of Heroes (which I've got to admit, I haven't watched yet, despite a slight resemblance to Sylar).It covers the issues faci...
Click to Play Why is Marie eating a Memphis Meltdown 12,000 feet in the air? It's all because of Wapid.co.nz, a site that brings together marke...
Click to Play We met Dave and Toby from Tandem Voice Booth, an audio and video production company that also does audio/video podcasts and a few...
When you work in Queen Street, it's hard to avoid the homeless. It's just as hard to know what to do. Avert your eyes? Give a donation? Smile? Say hi? Or walk past, because you're busy.It's uncomfo...
Last night, after the Rob Kozinets lecture, I caught up with Marketing Association CEO Sue McCarty, and she told me an amazing story about change.Before AT&T made Catherine Coughlin their global ma...
This morning was great - until I listened to the BBC's Business Daily. It's not the BBC's fault - it's just the news they're bringing every day. Fear, anxiety and depression can be contagious somet...
Major kudos to the ad agency that did Mainland Cheese's clever ad placement in the latest Taste Magazine.While everyone else is trying to be new and high-tech, Mainland is playing to their strength...
Click to Play ( more info: http://ijump.tv/ ) ... We talk with Regan Cunliffe of Throng.co.nz about how they've changed the way people watch TV...
I slept in half an hour this morning. It was sooo good!As I woke up the second time around, I remembered the phrase "Without a vision, the people perish". It's often used in organisations to get pe...
This is a blog post to tell you that I had planned a blog post on a variety of topics, includingeconomicsunions, politics and corporate social responsibilitythe moral element of the current financi...
Not the TV show, the fish. They're endangered. I'm not a seafood fan so I'm not so bothered, but it is a pity if Orange Roughies are being fished to death. And it's not just roughies, it's also tun...
Some people say being nice gets you nowhere but that's bollocks. I know for sure that being rude and making people feel small might just be the cause of most of the world's problems.We don't get go...
So the bailout plan has been rejected. Listening to the news in the past weeks, I've heard the word "unprecedented" an unprecedented number of times. These are possibly very frightening times, the ...
Marketing Online Live interests and frustrates me.It interests me because Paul and Alex have some good stuff to say, and I like the entrepreneurial way they think.It frustrates me because they try ...
look around!Last week in Wellington I realised something about the people I meet at conferences. There are three kinds of people, those who can count, and those who can't. Hang on, that's a differe...
It's been a pretty busy week, despite its unstructured beginnings, and I've been meeting people from all kinds of organisations while I'm here. Instead of organisations, you could say, "beasts" - a...
It's been a good couple of days in Wellington at the Conferenz 6th Annual Media Relations Summit. I haven't attended all the sessions, but the ones I have been to - and the conversations between s...
Good morning from sunny Wellington, where I’m preparing to chair a roundtable this afternoon at the 6th Annual Media Relations Conference. All things going well, I’ll post about it tomorrow. For to...
We've just relaunched iJump's new site, which has been a pretty exhausting exercise, but well worth it.While we haven't been perfect in our execution, there are some lessons in the process I though...
Even though I was pretty sick on Friday, I needed to get out of the house, so I saw Taken with Marie.It came with her sister's recommendation - and this is a sister whose favourite film is Legally ...
Like many of my generation, YouTube has given me the ability to analyse some of the key media experiences of my childhood - experiences like Sapphire and Steel.That program used to give me the will...
Blogging every weekday is kind of addictive - most days I have something interesting to say.So I find myself sick on a Friday, with very little in my head, and yet still I want to blog.But scratch ...
I don't know much about history... Well, actually I do, but not because of my Social Studies The things I find most useful now, I learnt through wasting time.(the image doesn't have anything to do ...
Sometimes people lay that out as an instant key to know what's important in life. It's not ... if today was my last day, I'd probably try to do everything ... and not do anything well.More inspirin...
Ben's writing an article for Startup Mag, and he asked me what I wished I'd known about writing for business-to-business print magazines when I started, 8 years ago.(a magazine I haven't written fo...
"You've changed everything."Batman changed the face of Gotham City's crime, and we've changed the face of trusted recommendations.To be honest, The Dark Knight's trailer didn't grab me. At all. But...
Often, it's not that there's no-one in a client organisation who knows what a wiki is, or what YouTube can do, etc.It's that their department is usually IT, which is neither marketing nor executive...
Just had a really good insight on why it's good for business to blog ... from a 49-year-old self-identified "dinosaur" whose job involves a whole lot of networking:When you're talking with someone ...
Click to Play ( more info: http://ijump.co.nz ... ) Throng is a social network for TV watchers, producers and broadcasters. It's been very succ...
JJProjects posted a pretty thought-provoking piece on Twitter yesterday:People always talk about community and conversation, but hardly ever about performance. People don't like to speak of this in...
Worked from home yesterday, which was a welcome relief from the treadmill (literally, as I didn't go to the gym, and metaphorically).But today I'm back on the treadmill (the metaphorical one, anywa...
Click to Play (more info: http://ijump.co.nz ) We interview Marketer of the Year, TVNZ's Jason Paris, about how TVNZ has transformed itself in ...
I finally caught Signs (2002) last night. What a refreshing take on the War of the Worlds scenario!I remember hearing some criticism of it because it didn't fit comfortably in the box of horror or ...
We had dinner with a couple we really get on with the other night. She's a designer, and a little bit mad as well.After doing some work talk and some social talk, my head was swimming with creative...
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SimonYoungWriters is doing a couple of jobs for large organisations at the moment, and I feel a real sympathy for anyone involved in corporate comms.Marketing has it slightly easier - they get to b...
Great podcast listening this morning. Good to hear Joseph Jaffe back after just a week since his last one! And better still to hear of a groundswell (not to be confused with the Groundswell) of blo...
The speaking season, part 1, has passed. Four speaking engagements in the last two weeks. I should get used to it! Over the next few days (touch wood) I'll be updating this blog as well as iJump's ...
Click to Play (more info: http://ijump.co.nz ) We're joined by Bernard Hickey from http://Interest.co.nz, Ernie Newman, head of http://Tuanz.or...
Click to Play ( more info: http://ijump.co.nz ) ... The conversation continues with Ludwig and Novia, producer and host respectively of Second ...
Yesterday saw the first of a lot of travel in the next few weeks. We were in Christchurch for a day-long workshop for a client. We're back there again next week to talk about social media (of cours...
Click to Play ( more info: http://ijump.co.nz ) | They're 17, and they produce a weekly video show. They're Ludwig Wendzich and Novia Ng, part ...
Click to Play (More info http://ijump.co.nz ) | Innovation is crucial to business growth, but it remains a mystery to many. Recently Simon atte...
Writing a monthly online marketing column for NZMarketing Magazine has it's good and bad points.Good: I get paid for it!Bad: No comments field.But it was great to get this email from Greg Randall a...
Click to Play (more info: http://www.ijump.co.nz ) Murray Streets joins us again to discuss some of the most common objections to companies lea...
Click to Play More info: http://www.ijump.co.nz ... Murray Streets saw our article in DLB and asked to join the conversation. He's got some gre...
Click to Play (more info: http://www.ijump.co.nz ) The future of media is networks - not just social networks. Find out the big picture in our ...
Click to Play Tony Faure has 12 years experience in the online business - an eternity in this fast-moving space. Tony tells us his view of the ...
Just finished watching The Outlook for Someday, an awesome example of Generation C in action, with some old media help.The competition gave young filmmakers a chance to get their view across on sus...
GrouchoLisaOriginally uploaded by sandrinoI've started to realise I am becoming a closet lefty. It all started when I was watching Wheel of Fortune with Nofo, my father in law.Nofo's not an intelle...
I've been reading a lot about China's history, so I felt like I needed some visual stimulus as well. I'm glad I did!The Last Emperor was fantastic, luxuriously directed, with a compelling main char...
Click to Play (More info: http://www.ijump.co.nz/ ) We go conga dancing in the shopping mall today, participating in a Flashmob, and asking wha...
Some people, use, commas, way too often, they use them when they, should use full stops, otherwise known as periods, semicolons, colons, even when there shouldn't, be, a, punctuation, mark there a,...
Click to Play (more info: http://www.ijump.co.nz ) ... Michael Brandon from Searchmasters tells us why SEO is important, the good and bad bits ...
Do sightless worms soliloquiseAnd mourn their dreadful lack of eyesDo they say "I am a man and not a worm"When good times quickly to bad times turnAnd do they think twicewhen cut in halfby a passin...
I've just come back from a business breakfast where I heard Charlie "Tremendous" Jones talk about - well, all sorts of things.He's a motivational speaker with 60 years' experience in business. Yes,...
Click to Play (more info: http://www.ijump.co.nz/ ) Hear how social networking greases the wheels when finding a new neighbourhood, job and hom...
Click to Play (more info: http://www.ijump.co.nz ) A sneak preview of Tim's presentation at next week's Internet Marketing Summit in Auckland. ...
Dinosaur roaming in AlbertaOriginally uploaded by FrankMaurerChris Brogan posted some really good thoughts on the future of social media consultancies, like iJump.It stimulated some thoughts I've b...
Pumped Up Originally uploaded by lincolnose2 With all the news about petrol prices and their steady upward climb, I wonder if we, the people, can demand clarity from the companies who supply us...
Today my dad, Graeme Young, would have turned 70.He would have, if he had not lost his life to pneumonia and cancer nearly 30 years ago. I wasn't yet four years old.Because I was so young, my exper...
Click to Play (More info: http://www.ijump.co.nz ) We meet Mauricio Freitas, founder of Geekzone.co.nz, and also a speaker at the upcoming Inte...
Make it like a cause that people "should" support...(as if we didn't have enough things we "should" be doing. As the guys from The God Journey say, you just end up shoulding all over yourself!)Howe...
I just listened to Jay Moona's latest Media Driving, and felt stirred up to comment.It's a subject that comes up quite regularly in conversation with others, so I thought it was worth reposting my ...
There are so many things I should blog about. Our recent social media one-day workshop, for instance, or our trip to Taupo, Napier and Rotorua (here are some photos, anyway).But what I'm going to b...
Marie and I went to the Hitwise Online Performance Awards last night, and I gave a 5 minute speech (here's what I planned to say).It was good to see the winners, find out some interesting statistic...
Click to Play More info: http://www.ijump.co.nz The people have spoken! See video comments from Ron in Oaxaca and Gideon in Brisbane, and hear ...
This morning at a business breakfast I sat next to an elderly couple who'd been missionaries and publishers in India for years.I asked them what they thought of India's mammoth growth into a world ...
saatchi roller Originally uploaded by loop_oh Just listening to Kevin Roberts on the Knowledge@Wharton podcast.Some observations:1. Kevin's accent, like any Brit who's spent some time in NZ the...
5.24.06 Cinema Originally uploaded by M J M So we went to the movies on our tenth anniversary last week. We saw an average-to-not-so-good movie. But what bothered me was the disaster that is th...
Is it really that hard to combine action, character and story? I guess it is.From the trailer, Vantage Point seemed to have a lot going for it - the same, controversial event, seen through the eyes...
