Last week the PROSH students were out and about in their fancy dress, collecting money for charity ($150,000 all told) and distributing their newspapers at almost every intersection into and out of the city. Every year this gives me flash backs to the time I first noticed PROSH, Easter 2000, and the accompanying tech wreck that had...Read More
Yesterday I attended XMediaLab’s ‘Video + Social’ conference. There were 5 main speakers, with information ranging from what you can do with video, to how trad media is dying (if not already dead) to how mobile fuels the demand for video via social. And loads more besides. It’s all about great content, and the Milennials (born...Read More
In 2006, my business school alumni held their annual dinner with then NAB CEO Ahmed Fahour as guest speaker. Not yet in his 40s, the eldest son of Lebanese immigrants, Fahour delivered an inspirational call to action for MBA graduates: “the MBA gets you to the door, but it’s up to you to walk on...Read More
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BwzEAki4u8] I suppose I must have a 13 year itch. After 13 years in school teaching (3 jobs on 3 separate continents 1986-1999) I knew it was time for a change. Strangely, after a similar amount of time in online real estate (2 jobs, coFounder of aussiehome.com then reiwa.com Executive manager, 1999-2013) I also...Read More
A typical story I think… Aiming to buy some electrical goods, I took to the Internet to do some window shopping and check prices. Once there, I was impressed by the well thought out search engine and ease of use, such that I thought “why not buy online and have it delivered?” So I started...Read More
A year ago I set myself a challenge. After talking about social media, blogging et al, for many years and telling others to get on board, I had never done much blogging myself. I had written some guest blogs and blogged a bit for my company, but not really grasped the nettle. So 2012 rolled...Read More
Ten years ago, in between the arrival of child one and child two, we extended our house converting it from a 3 to 4 bedroom. In the process the roof line was pitched upwards and outwards making for a huge space I always figured would be useful one day. And so it was I found...Read More
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3hi0V13oag&w=590&h=332] Watch the Brian Solis video – go on, it’s only 11 minutes, and he is an entertaining presenter. It’s OK, I can wait til you have finished. I’ll just quietly hum to myself, ho hum, hum, hum… ~~~ 11 minutes passes ~~~ Good wasn’t it? I enjoyed Brian’s beginning with the subtle mickey...Read More
[tweetmeme source=”ChazGunningham” only_single=false] A decade or so ago I was whiling away an empty moment copying and pasting pieces of text from my company’s home page into Google, and seeing if it was being picked up. I took the first phrase of the welcome text (which was placed top left) into the search engine and Google...Read More
[tweetmeme source=”ChazGunningham” only_single=false] I don’t now when it started, but it could have been a valiant explorer in a home made boat crossing the waters to another land, or trekking over a distant mountain. They found other peoples, communicated probably through sign language, and perhaps swapped some products in a mutually beneficial trade. All such...Read More
