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SBTUG: Report on last meeting – Online marketing and MOSS & BI

A great meeting with Fred Schebesta and Grant Paisley presenting up a storm last Wed 25 July 2007. Fred powered through an excellent overview of internet marketing, search engine optimization and web site tracking. A big thank you to Fred for coming along, and big congratulations to him on his engagement a few days after the meeting – enjoy your holiday Fred. Grant talked us though the new...

PERSONAL: Back, yet again… again

I won’t bore you with all the details, but suffice to say this is the third time (in about as many months) that I’ve had to completely reinstall my machine. Everything is fine until one morning I will start my notebook and it just won’t boot. Our techies have looked at it, and it comes down to a corrupted boot sector thingy (whatever). No tools are able to fix, dual boots...

GOOGLE: Being sued by Australia

LOL!
(from TechCrunch, this little gem)
Good luck Australia (and specifically the ACCC).
Can you believe it? In a country where our internet coverage and performance is so woeful, we spend time and money chasing Google over their use of sponsored links. Hilarious, if it weren’t so tragic.
The comments in the posts are interesting – my favourite: Only the lawyers will win out of this one.

AUTISM: In my Language

Michele alerted me to this wonderful video that ‘explains’ how communicative autistic people really are. It is more than us ‘normal’ people being arrogant. It is more than just being judgemental. It is really about missing out on understanding a whole other, beautiful side of humanity. Prepare to be humbled. Aside: I’m told that Second Life (the online game) has...

SBTUG: SEO, SEM, Internet Marketing, BI, MOSS 2007

This month (25 July) is going to be an awesome meeting at the Sydney Business & Technology User Group with two exciting sessions. First off, I am very thrilled to have Fred Schebesta – internet marketing guru, and 2006 Australian Direct Marketer of the Year Award winner – presenting on SEO, SEM, internet marketing and branding and whole bunch of other goodness to do with promoting your...

USER GROUPS: Sydney User Groups

[UPDATE 1] Here’s the list of ineta User Groups (which can be filtered for Australia) [UPDATE 2] Here’s the Readify list of Australian User Groups I’ve been looking for a simple list of all the Sydney user groups (Microsoft based ones that is) and have found it difficult to come by. As a starting point I visited the Microsoft site (here) but found it non-user friendly and out of...

QUALITY: You are what you repeatedly code

Just going through my backlog of blog posts and read this one from Paul Stovell (from over a month ago). I totally agree with his main point that ‘we are what we repeatedly code’. It takes a while to build a habit. I wish more coders wised up to this. But more importantly I wish more software managers wised up to this. When it comes to the cost involved, I’d suggest that the...

ACS: Speaking at ACS Wollongong next Wed 4 July 2007

Next Wed I’m speaking at the South Coast Chapter of the Australian Computer Society, discussing ‘5 Mistakes Software Managers Make‘. This is based on my recent talk at SBTUG, but expanded a little taking into account the great feedback I got at the meeting.
Details here
Not sure if any of my readers are Wollongong based, but if so I’d love to see you there.

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