Helping Aussie Entrepreneurs Re-boot from Floods and Fires

As Australia recovers from devastating floods and fires, business owners and entrepreneurs face a daunting task of first surviving, then re-building. Melbourne-based business entrepreneur Jennie Armato and nine of her colleagues have put together a dynamic online event to raise funds to help get entrepreneurs back into the game. Return from Adversity – Flood Relief […]

Movie Making Made Easy, or Too Soon to Call?

Testing the online movie-making tool Xtranormal This morning I had a direct message (DM) on Twitter with a link to a YouTube video advertising a Superbowl-related service. I clicked through out of curiosity and watched the short video. If you watch that, you’ll notice the credit that comes up at the end for Xtra Normal, […]

Wrapping Up the Big Biller Project

Last few remaining copies of Big Biller at a special close-out price When my friend and colleague Bill Vick invited me, back in 2006, to collaborate with him on a book about recruiting’s “big billers”, I was intrigued.  The idea was that Bill would interview a range of top producers in the recruitment industry and […]

Twitter and Home Based Business

I have to admit that at any given moment I don’t know whether to be highly impressed or highly amused by the way Twitter, which allows you to share messages with a 140 character limit, has taken the social media world by storm. Maybe a bit of both. It mightn’t be – no, isn’t – […]

Privacy Page Restored

I realized the other day that somehow, in a changeover of themes perhaps, this site seemed to have lost its Privacy page. That made me uncomfortable, because I have always thought it important, even essential, to have a privacy page. The situation has now been remedied. Although my first effort at doing so meant that […]