richardirvine.com

Buzzword-free communication and content

2012

  • Flight Of The Concords, Vector Arena

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    Thoroughly enjoyed the Concords. Ever since I learned Bret is a Harry Nilsson fan, I’ve been hearing little touches of Harry in his music – his tune that incorporated a bus tour guide and inter-marital affairs definitely had it. Musical comedy is hard to a) pull off and b) sustain, but Bret’s music, Jermaine’s sexually charged nerdly…

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  • Hear me say ‘um’ and ‘yinnow’ a lot

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    Dylan and Morgan at the @discoursenz podcast were kind enough to have me on the show, to talk @telecomnz. My bit is from about four minutes in, and goes for about ten minutes. I hang around for some of the rest of it too. Discourse NZ Episode 3.12: Minty Fresh I enjoyed myself – it’s…

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  • Goal

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  • Avatar

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    Your blog, Twitter and LinkedIn* are your shtick. My shtick is apparently a stream of unrelated stills from films with me clumsily Photo Shopped in, probably saying ‘work shy’ and ‘limited Photo Shop skills’ to any potential employer. Here goes. Previous edition *probably not your LinkedIn Alien – bonus corridor related link Billions of stupid…

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  • Cheating on Flickr

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    Once, Flickr was THE photo site, with one of great early online communities, formed around a shared love of photography. All the proper photographers I know are on Flickr. Me, I’ve got 1450 images and videos there. I get a free Pro account though my *cough* marvellous ISP – with this, I can upload all…

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  • Social Media Club Hamilton

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    Being a Waikato chap, I was pleased and honoured to be guest speaker at the first Social Media Club Hamilton event. The crowd had that friendly / awkward vibe of people who talk all day on the internet meeting each other in real life, maybe even for the first time. That vibe is a wonderful…

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  • Interview with some guy

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    Massey University student Aaron Overington was keen and kind enough to publish an email interview about my role as social media chap at Telecom. Do you have ROI goals or targets to meet, and if so how do you define them? No formal ROI targets have been set yet. We feel our level of investment…

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  • “I think he’s at lunch”

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    A new thing – I’m contributing to corporatelunchbox.com, “an open forum for lunch suggestions in and around Auckland city”. My first post reviews Paneton Bakery: “All rolls and baps are well sized with generous fillings and go for around $6-7, a price that makes non-Aucklanders spit out their roll-up and shout “HOW MUCH?”, but makes…

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  • Who to follow on Twitter

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    The NZ top Tweeter lists (one, two, three) probably did exactly what the Herald wanted it to – create a lot of page views. MUCH debate ensued as to whether your own humble tweet collection of chatter with your mates, with the odd artful zinger is as worthy as some breakfast jock’s. Only you and…

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  • Forever blowing bubbles

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    Leftover pizza dough freezes no worries at all. But in protest, it pops weird bubbles when you thaw it and put it in the oven. Here’s exhibits A and B (click to make bigger): Pizza bread Quick pizza. Because our little family usually can’t eat a whole pizza dough on our own, leftovers usually go…

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