Apple's strong marketing campaigns, amazing hardware and great software have definitely been stealing the technological spotlight almost to the extent where (and I don't mean to start arguments about this) people seem to be forgetting all about Microsoft and what they have been up to....
Continue ReadingA good friend of mine brought a very interesting site called 9-eyes.com to my attention recently. This site shows a collection of fantastic images that were caught by Google maps with Street View. I've shown you a few of my favourites here, but there are...
Continue ReadingNothing beats Queensland is the message that will be promoted to Australia and the world as part of a joint $10 million Gillard and Bligh Government global tourism marketing strategy. Government Acting Prime Minister and Treasurer Wayne Swan and Queensland Premier Anna Bligh yesterday announced details...
Continue Reading[caption id="attachment_5870" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Salvador Dalí 'Hallucination partielle' 1931"][/caption] One of the world’s important collections of surrealist art will be shown at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art this winter. Paris’s renowned Centre Pompidou will loan the core of its surrealist collection for Surrealism: The Poetry of Dreams, a major...
Continue ReadingGreen Earth Day (the brainchild of Leigh-Chantelle Koch) will delight Brisbane greenies this Saturday 12 March at a new venue: Albion Peace Centre, 102 McDonald Road, Windsor, Brisbane. This free, family orientated, community event aims to stimulate awareness by bringing environmental, green, health and lifestyle,...
Continue ReadingJust one day left to Clean Up Australia Day 2011! The event will be held on Sunday, 6 March. Clean Up Australia Day has been running since 1990 and has become the nation’s largest community-based environmental event. It attracts hundreds of thousands of volunteers from the...
Continue ReadingInfluenced by Lee's original blog about fractals, I started to think about how fractals can be used for brands. I came to the conclusion that fractals are a good paradigm / framework to model your brand. The definition of a fractal according to Hyperdictionary is: A rough or...
Continue ReadingWhen I signed up for a Small Budget Web Success Seminar with Interactive Minds I saw one of the speakers was Mike Knapp from Shoes of Prey. I thought 'what a great name' and got on the old google machine to find out who they...
Continue ReadingNow I’m not loyal to many brands and chocolate is certainly no exception, but these little guys with their own personalities and quirks have me coming back for more every year – even to the point where I think I should “stock up” because its...
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