Coding as an Armchair Sport
Ever wondered HOW people code? Or what they do while they ARE coding? Some years ago I ran a web development team – and found that watching people code was both fascinating and revealing. One time, we were right on deadline to fix and launch a massive Australian...
Customer Experience – Grasp the Past for a Successful Future
From December through January each year, we are bombarded with blog posts, papers and even videos setting out a vision for the year ahead of us. These are put together by pundits, bloggers, analysts and companies seeking to put their stamp on your thinking in the year...
Three Lessons for the Future – Revisiting the Brand Gap
Back in 2007, when I first came across this presentation by Marty Neumeier I loved the way it explained the way that business strategy and brand could come together. It spoke to my interest in strategy and marketing and seemed to make sense at a time when social media...
Content Marketing in Australia – Is your content worth sharing?
At a recent event hosted by Livefyre, Neal Mann, digital strategist for News Corp Australiaposed a challenging question – would you share the last piece of content that you created? Answering his own question, Neal revealed the single largest challenge facing...
Six Principles to Build a Great Content Brand
All brands should start to act like publishers. — Every consultant No doubt you’ll have heard that brands need to start to act like publishers. And I am as guilty as the next person/consultant of using this concept – but I do so advisedly. You see, many moons...
Content Strategy: Planning Ahead
At the beginning of the year, Oracle Eloqua released a State of Content Marketing Survey Report that revealed the trends that were impacting content marketing and approaches that would be taken through 2014. And now, as we are closing in on what is possibly the most...
Disrupting Failure – The secret to success
In the world of startups we have been obsessed with failure. And learning. Or what Mick Liubinskas from muru-D calls “flearning”. You will, no doubt, have heard of the concept of “fail-fast” – a term borrowed from system design and applied to software engineering –...