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  • Amazing what you find when you google yourself

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    Me, in a directors institute magazine. Who’d have thought?

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  • On buying followers

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    Here’s a very simple test you can perform at home if you suspect someone has bought their followers on Twitter. Step one: Read your mark’s tweets. Go back a week or two if you can be arsed. Step two: Ask yourself ‘would X thousand people REALLY be interested in that? Really?!?’ There is no step…

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  • Depot (and Bellota)

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    On paper, it’s easy to wonder if Al Brown‘s Depot is playing a Keyser Soze-magnitude trick on Auckland. No bookings, crowds to battle, wait for ages to sit outside drinking wine out of a tumbler, before being granted access to sit at the bar and eat upper-mid-range-priced food on sharing plates? Well, we did all the…

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  • What did we learn?

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    This last couple of weeks I was lucky enough to: Speak at the Social Media and Mobile Apps forum, with a Telecom case study; “Social and corporate values – making them play nicely” Attend The Flying Social Network’s The Social Media Breakfast Both were fine events, and they made me think about conferences and expectations. …

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  • 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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    Instagram

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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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