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Ghetto Video in Hobart – Digital Ready 2013
This week in Hobart I help my 1st meetup group for my new Digital Ready group. I have 14 amazing businesses to coach for the next 8 weeks in every thing business online related.. Every week I spend time with these fabulous people helping them one on one and then once a fortnight we get together as a group and have a chat (these are meetups). In this first meetup I introduced the group to Videolicious – a great iPhone App that helps you create nifty little videos that can be shared directly with Youtube, Twitter and Facebook. Animoto...
read moreWorking with Edenholme
Spending a couple of very useful hours working with Paul Harding from Edenholme Grange. Did you know you can update your wordpress blog using your mobile ? The WordPress app is actually pretty good 🙂
read moreSocial Media at the Pool!
Our Business and Employment Digital Enterprise NBN workshops have been so popular that tonight’s Social Media workshop has been moved to the Launceston Aquatic Centre – we just need more room!This is an awesome switched on group of local businesses and now they will all be all over social media 🙂
read moreWorking with local businesses
Simon and I have just returned from the third workshop in a session of 6 we are presenting for the NBN Digital Enterprise Program. Tonights workshop was all about what it takes to make a website the best it can be for your business. The 40 or so people in the room were very engaged & a lot of fun to work with. This program includes access to 4 hours of one on one mentoring, which is were the REAL work takes place. Working, one on one with local businesses to improve their online presences is an absolute privilege which we thoroughly...
read moreSocial Media and your Business
I am about to head out the door to talk with a bunch of Tasmanian female entrepreneurs at a networking lunch. We are going to talk about one of my favourite subjects – social media and business! Things are changing so quickly in this area, the opportunities are huge. In many ways social media has levelled the marketing field for small business. Using social media as a business is ALL about engaging with your customer base – this is almost easier for a small operator than it is for a large business with loads of employees....
read moreJog to clear our head!
Simon & I ran this afternoon from moonee valley to Richmond. 12ks through lots of parks – it was a great way to digest a day full of Ed Dales challenging platinum group! Wow is our business changing during this process!Thanks for the track ideas andrew o’brien 🙂
read moreMobile websites in Devonport!
We had a fabulous business breakfast at the Elimata Devonport this morning. The success of the event was in no part due to Lynn Laycock’s awesome skills at being an MC – very entertaining. The Devonport Chamber of Commerce & Industry plus AusIndustry hosted the annual event which was very well patronized. The audience was warm and engaged, I just love presenting up here in the North West Coast – they are super switched on. We had loads of questions about mobilizing your website and online marketing in general. SMiK Mobi...
read moreWebsite -> Social Media -> Mobile Web
This week I have the honour of being the guest speaker at the AusIndustry Annual Office Professionals & Managers Breakfast for Devonport Chamber of Commerce and Industries. While trying to decide what to fill the 15 minutes with, an idea started to gel. For the last 4 years we have been sharing our knowledge with local businesses to help them improve their presence online – wow, have things changed in that 4 years. Having a website used to be the main game, then Social Media became the place to be online to grow your business, now...
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