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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Bookmarks

By brendan at 21 January, 2009, 1:31 pm

At anyone time I have around 5 books on my bedside table.  I tend to buy books I want to read and dump them there until I get to them, plus I tend to read more than one book at a time.  To stop myself from just reading trashy novels, I have process -  I [...]

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Lessons from the Adult Entertainment Industry

By brendan at 8 December, 2008, 2:39 pm

Fiona Patten and I were both born in 1964. At around 26 I made a major change in my life and moved from Western Australia to Victoria. I had actually planned to move to NSW, but never quite made it there as my intermediate move to Melbourne kept on getting extended. [...]

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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, [...]

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