Anthill’s Cool Company Awards (2010)

Blog on November 30th, 2010 No Comments

Pollenizer has been named one of Australia’s ‘Coolest’ businesses in Anthill Magazine’s Fifth Annual Cool Company Awards. Pollenizer has been named a Finalist in Anthill Magazine’s Fifth Annual Cool Company Awards, a national program developed in 2006 to recognise Australian companies that are doing things differently to bring about positive change. Over 700 aspiring ‘cool [...]

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Pitch Your Start-Up To Entrepreneurs & Angel Investors

Blog on September 9th, 2010 1 Comment

Innovation Bay has raised $6M from five dinners. If you need venture capital to shift your startup into its next fast-growth phase then Innovation Bay’s upcoming Angel Dinner in Sydney might be for you. If you are interested in coming to the dinner, have funds to invest or represent a company that is looking to [...]

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Playing on the Web: Create Your Own Word Cloud

Blog on August 27th, 2010 No Comments

If you haven’t played with word cloud creation tool Wordle by Jonathan Feinberg, you should! You can create pretty pictures out of your website or blog’s content. Wordle grabs all the words on the page or website you are ‘wordling’ and creates cool visual models or infographics which you can customise (typface, colours, layout and [...]

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What I’m Reading

Blog on April 26th, 2010 2 Comments

Whilst most of the work week is spent thinking and dreaming about growing web businesses (our own, our clients), there is just enough time to think about other stuff. Just discovered: Industrial design magazine and community, Core77. Here are two fun stories tagged under ‘object-culture’ (you get the drift) to give you a taste  of [...]

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Getting ‘the blurb’ on Blurb.com

Blog on April 12th, 2010 No Comments

It’s fun and challenging working with clients in different time zones, so it is good for the relationship when you can catch up in person. Samantha Howe (pictured) from Blurb visited Sydney in March to spend time with the Pollenizer Blurboz team; attend Blurb sponsored events; and catch-up with Blurb’s partners. I interviewed Samantha Howe, [...]

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Half-price Growth Summit Workshop feat. Mick!

Blog on January 29th, 2010 No Comments

As part of Growth Summit conference this February 17th and 18th in Sydney, Mick is MC-ing the ‘Technology to Drive Growth’ workshop. We’re very happy to be able to offer half-price tickets to Pollenizer friends and family – a saving of over $400! The workshop will give great insight into which technology solutions are available, [...]

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User-Centered Design?

Blog on January 27th, 2010 No Comments

My colleague Mauricio and I were confronted with a very practical problem yesterday that left us thinking quite a bit about user-centered design. We are in Barcelona working at a client site and on the way back to our company apartment, we got a bit distracted talking about software and, as we walked down the [...]

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Which engine do you choose to power your web business?

Blog on March 23rd, 2009 No Comments

Don’t be tempted by the 98 octane hi-revving twin-supercharged speedster; sometimes it’s a simple, reliable, well-understood and easy-to-repair diesel you need. One of my favourite episodes from Top Gear is the “Big Trip To Africa”. Jeremy Clarkson and his two sidekicks have to buy a car each for £1,500 and then drive it across Botswana. [...]

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New Technologies At the Service of Civil Society

Blog on March 21st, 2009 No Comments

Pollenizer’s focus is on building web businesses, you can see that through the focus of our site, our blog posts and our experiences. However, something you might not know, is that many of us are also quite interested in the impact that technology has on civil society (NGO’s, not-for-profit). Today, I had the privilege of [...]

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