I’m now a couple of days in to my Paul Reynolds Scholarship / Powerhouse Museum trip. Getting here was a smooth experience via a full Air New Zealand flight. If you want to travel easily between countries my top tip is that you do it on a weekend (especially a Sunday) as it minimises the volumes of people you must compete with at the airport. The effort required to get my bag, make my way [...]

Day two kicked things up a notch for me. It just seemed that the speakers were even better than day one (and day one was good) but I think the content and the choice of delivery by todays speakers lifted the bar even further. So what struck a chord with me? I really enjoyed Scott Hanselman who offered a number of ‘self help’ tips to improve your work productivity. He spoke of seeking a best [...]

2012 is shaping up to be an interesting and exciting year – and I don’t mean all that Mayan hype! I’m starting the month by moving from the Dunedin Public Libraries marketing team and joining the Dunedin City Council’s web team. The web team has in turn been incorporated in to a council wide communications and marketing team as part of some internal restructuring undertaken at the end of 2011. While I’ll still look after [...]

Wednesday November 23rd 2011 was a very interesting online news day. Not so much for the actual news story – but rather what followed. The Twittersphere was abuzz earlier in the day after a helicopter crashed at Auckland’s Viaduct Basin while installing a fake Christmas Tree. Video coverage of the installation work was at the time being webstreamed live by the tvnz.co.nz team. It’s an event you can never imagine free-to-air television affording live coverage [...]