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 [...]

First impressions for day one at Webstock were generally positive. This is a well run event that’s clearly learnt a few lessons over its lifespan and put them in to play. The guest speakers offered a range of diverse topics that were high level concepts (in the main) but some of the concurrent sessions tended to get a bit more ‘under the hood’ and that I really enjoyed. A couple of good examples of this [...]

It’s less than 24 hrs until I start a 2.5 week journey spanning a couple of days in Wellington attending Webstock 12 followed by two weeks at The Powerhouse Museum in Sydney getting stuck in to my Paul Reynolds Scholarship opportunity. Am I getting excited? You bet! Until now it’s all felt surreal and distant – but as I blog about this on the eve of my travels it’s now starting to feel very close [...]

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 [...]