10 common business card mistakes

By brendan at 14 May, 2010, 12:55 pm

I’ve just come back from a two week business development campaign with a client where I collected about 100 business cards through one to one meetings and event attendance. I then went back to my office and spent 10 minutes scanning every card for import into my contact list and the organisation’s CRM system. I [...]

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consumer innovation

By brendan at 16 February, 2009, 9:34 pm

One of the things that I love about my iPhone is that is a fully fledged 16gb iPod as well as a multimedia device and phone.  Every time I go for a drive (or catch a tram) I am now entertained and or challenged by podcasts that I subscribe to (they automatically get downloaded to [...]

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the other networking

By brendan at 10 February, 2009, 2:07 pm

This morning I got a message from my niece on Facebook, two messages from colleagues on Linkedin , 1 SMS messages and a couple of dozen emails.  Which got me thinking about networking.  I use social networking tools LinkedIn and Facebook regularly (not heavily) but probably not the way most people think.  I tend to [...]

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Family Community Experimental

By brendan at 29 August, 2007, 8:11 pm

After having a discussion with my daughter, I realized I didn’t really have the right words to explain the difference between “my new family” and “my old family”. My new family being the wife and kids, the old family being my Mum, Dad and siblings. Describing the people that I live with as my “new [...]

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Australian Web 2.0

By brendan at 18 July, 2007, 11:35 pm

So this week the Churchill Club is running a program, called Australian Web 2.0 Success. There seems to be a hang-up in Australia about what Web 2.0 actually is, and whether we have any successful companies in that space. When asking around, there seemed to be a lot of consent that Atlassian, was one of [...]

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