Career Progression
I’m moving to Sydney
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010About a month ago, I was faced with a decision. Move up to Sydney and work full time on an amazing opportunity with Ai-Media to end disability, or stay in Melbourne and try to find something else. It’s nice to be able to say that when Tony Abrahams offered me the gig in Sydney, it didn’t take long […]
Update from beyond the Squiggly Lines: What projects am I working on currently?
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009There has been a lot of news recently. A lot has been happening in this little world of ours - one night a few weeks ago I awoke to a great email from Ross Hill that made me aware that overnight Zach Klein had been hired by Boxee, Jeffery from Threadless was joining Digg and that Google had aquired ReCaptcha. That’s […]
From Vision Drive to Corporate Drive
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008Recently, my life journey has taken me to some amazing places - including helping to set up www.learnaboutpoverty.org, working at World Vision Australia generally and taking part in some pretty alive communities such as Start Up Camp Melbourne, Melbourne Jelly (intermittently, but I aim to make it a more common thing), The Hive and serving on […]
Brand Me - The Chris Brogan eBook
Monday, September 8th, 2008I’m not a huge fan of the ol’ eBook - but I’m quickly learning to appreciate and value the contents of them as I go. The latest one that struck me - Chris Brograns ‘Personal Branding for the Business Professional.’
As most of you will know by now, I’m a huge advocate of the Brand Me […]
Do you know how to play the game?
Friday, June 20th, 2008I’ve been ruminating about this post for quite a while and it is being finally ‘penned’ because of the quote I ran into yesterday.
“You miss 100% of the shots you never take.” - Wayne Gretzky
I couldn’t help but think about the world of entrepreneurship and innovation, where often a shot not taken is an opportunity […]
Bla bla bla…Knowledge Economy
Monday, October 29th, 2007Stumbled into this one today when searching for innovation unit’s at big companies. I reckon most would be disappointed. Just try the Google search “insert big company name Innovation Unit” and view the disappointment for yourself. Is there someone out there actually IN an innovation unit, can you please say hi - I’d love to […]
The Pmarca Guide to career planning…get on it!
Monday, October 1st, 2007Okay - if you have been reading this blog you’ll know that I am trying to live the Brand Me life. I started this blog mainly to try to capture my portfolio of projects going on, how I was juggling the opportunities presenting themselves in each one, and to start conversations with other who were […]