Craig Bailey

Hi, I’m Craig Bailey and this is my personal blog where I write about technology, web strategy, and general musings. You can read my posts here. (If you are looking for the Content is King post by Bill Gates it is here)

I run two digital agencies in Sydney:

The first is XEN Systems. We help government departments and mid-large B2B technology companies with their online strategy, including content marketing, SEO, SEM and Social. You can find out more about what we do here.

The second is XEN Solar, where we help high quality solar companies (dealers, installers) with their digital marketing.

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That’s all for WeWork for now

By Craig Bailey
In General Tech
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I’m just as sick of the WeWork shenanigans as you are I’m sure. So will make this my final (I hope) link to a WeWork story for a long, long time… “We have decided to postpone our IPO to focus on our core business, the fundamentals of which remain strong,” WeWork’s newly appointed co-CEOs Artie Minson and Sebastian Gunningham said on Monday. “The...

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Revegetation on Lady Elliot Island

By Craig Bailey
In Personal
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Such an encouraging story – about the regeneration of Lady Elliot island from pretty much a dustbowl, to a thriving ecosystem. Everything about this story is sooo good, from the initial plans of just planting trees, through to the goal self-sufficiency by this Christmas. However the real triumph is that it is possible for anyone to accomplish: “So, for me, let’s fix Lady Elliot...

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My iPhone Home screen

By Craig Bailey
In Personal
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Every so often I add a screenshot of my home screen – purely for fun when looking back in the years to come. Here it is as of 28 September 2019 – on my black iPhone SE running iOS 13.1

I use some iPhone wallpaper hacks from here.

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Facebook hiding likes

By Craig Bailey
In Social networking
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And so it begins…. in Australia. Facebook will start testing hiding Likes on posts.

They first mentioned this at the start of the month.

Will be interesting to see how this pans out – one can assume this will be the norm on all social networks in a year’s time. Well, except LinkedIn of course, give them another few years before they catch up.

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Obfuscation over Privacy

By Craig Bailey
In General Tech
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My first thought on reading this post on MIT Press about potentially using obfuscation to provide a shroud of privacy was… good luck. Computers are way too smart for that and if they can’t now, in the future they’ll be able to pick the patterns easily. Think of a 5 year old trying to talk in code with another 5 year old by using a bunch of distraction – surely that’s...

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SEO Myths

By Craig Bailey
In SEO
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Wow, what a monster post by Barry Schwartz. I have to admit I’ve only read the first half… I haven’t actually got on to the actual myths yet.

More accurately, and perhaps more valuably, this is a post about understanding mental models and biases.

(And well done to SEMrush for snagging this one)

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Craig Bailey

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I'm the co-host of HubShots and the CEO of XEN - helping mid-large B2B companies with their digital marketing and lead generation.

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