This one has been on my “to-blog” list for a long while: 13 essential read for community managers, as suggested by … you is a list of books on the topic of community management, which is a part of the social media skill-set that I’m hoping to further develop. I have yet to read any […]
Monthly Archives: July 2009
Book: The 22 Immutable laws of marketing
Book: The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing I asked twitter what marketing books I should read, and this was the first recommendation (still happy to receive other recommendations, by the way). This is the kind of typical business book that can be read in a couple of hours, though it seems to have at least […]
Cafe Rosso, Victoria Galleries, Sydney CBD
Andronicus coffee. Taking up a lot of the open, undercover space in the Galleries forecourt is this large, friendly-looking cafe. The decaf is really quite good: thick milk, just the right temperature, and pleasant tasting. I haven’t tried much from Andronicus, but I’ll be less shy next time I see the brand.
The importance of deliberate practice
Blog post the importance of deliberate practice shows – via the example of would-be black cab drivers getting the knowledge – one approach for improving your writing style.
whiteboard paint
Clever idea – Whiteboard Paint.
Twitter as a Spiritual Discipline
[barb] There are a lot of uses for Twitter out there, but I hadn’t considered this one: Twitter as a Spiritual Discipline.
The Twitter-enabled backchannel
More than just passing notes in class? The Twitter-enabled backchannel – a scholarly paper on the use of Twitter at academic conferences (and other conferences) to add another channel of engagement that participants can access and contribute to.
United breaks guitars: a case study
Another case study of using YouTube to encourage a faceless corporation to right a perceived wrong: musician Dave Carroll creates a music video to encourage United to take responsibility for damage careless luggage handlers did to his $3,500 guitar.
Gungho Cafe, Haymarket
Calima Coffee. Shop 9, 107-121 Quay Street, Haymarket. I’d walked past this place a few times without realising that coffee could be sold here: the bright colours and pictures of food makes it hard to concentrate on any one visual. As a result, I had fairly low expectations of the coffee, but I thought I […]
The Roadmap To Becoming A Professional Freelance Web Designer
Another article from Smashing Magazine: The Roadmap To Becoming A Professional Freelance Web Designer – a step-by-step on what you need to consider.