Shared Learnings
Put the Oh in Enterprise 2.0
The Enterprise 2.0 Forum is on again! Enterprise brain gym! Tuesday, February 24. 8.30 to 2pm Luna Park, Sydney I'll be there again to hear the live feeds from the USA and UK. More thoughts on my blog...
read moreManual first, then automate
Just saw Bart's post on how funding can kill your startup and completely agree. Funding can be great for you and it's certainly required at some points but I see startups all the time trying to solve problems in the wrong sequence. One of the suggestions I have is to...
read moreHow to start from nothing and get funding
@mrsocial asked this question via twitter here and here. http://twitter.com/MrSocial/status/1140736097 http://twitter.com/MrSocial/status/1140747312 My answer to the first question; @MrSocial best way to raise funds: a successful mgmt team or product that is making...
read moreBloggers Are Born, Not Made
I've been working with the Photo Art team in the last two weeks on their new team blog called Photographic Art World. It's been an interesting exercise and a reminder about the personality of a blogger. Basically, I grabbed the domain, added Wordpress, grabbed a...
read moreSydney Festival: Lessons in Simplicity
Some friends and I attended Sydney Festival's 'First Night' last night and it was massive. Huge. Over 200,000 people in Sydney and half the city blocked off. And it wasn't just entertaining. There were lessons in simplicity which made people go "Wow!" and "Why?"...
read moreLessons from Community Fickleness
A few weeks ago I got a spammy email from Publicis Mojo representing Metamucil in an attempt to engage the blogging community. Nick Hodge covered it nicely here since a number of us blogocrew received the email. Given that I've made more than my fair share of...
read more2008 and 2009 For Pollenizer
Firstly, thank you to our wonderful team and family who have worked with us this year in the team or as contractors. Peter Fellows, Bruno Mattarollo, Jon Tyson, Pierre Sauvignon, Alan Jones and June Cremin. Your commitment to getting the job done at a world class...
read moremixin @pollenizer, pollenizer l: mixin
You may have noticed us mentioning a product called mixin in our social media lately. There's a good reason for this: we've been scoping out a relationship with the company that goes beyond the usual 'hired gun' deal most consultancies offer web startups. As part of...
read moreWasted Opportunity With ‘Don’t Reply’
ANZ Internet Banking Customer Friendly Language Originally uploaded by bigmick I got this email in my secure email form my bank. If you can't read it, it says; "Dear Customer, Please do not reply to this message. It is sent from an unmonitored mailbox and will not be...
read moreSydney Co-Working Space: March, 2009
Great, Big News! Phaedon from Mitchellake has come through after a hefty battle with landlords, Gladiators and electrical substations with a soon-to-be office and galactic central point for entrepreneurial energy in Sydney. Ground Floor 98 Riley Street Darlinghurst...
read morePollenizer keeping up with their Joneses
My name is Alan Jones, and that's been a heavy burden to bear for most of my adult life because of the notoriously tetchy radio personality and F1 race driver of the same name. Now Pollenizer has an Alan Jones of its very own. And that Alan Jones is me. This week I've...
read moreProduct Testing Dangers
Recently on a flight, I befriended a young family with a baby and a 3 year old. At Mogeneration we have been working on a kids game called Moo Shake (now in the app store) that makes a bunch of crazy animal sounds. So I decided to let the young girl test it. She loved...
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