Archive for August 2006

HR bits and pieces…

I just thought I’d share some interesting articles on Human Resources.
David Rock
A couple weeks ago, I went to see a lecture by David Rock to MBA students and Alumni. David Rock is a successful entrepreneur and writer that has been focusing on improving businesses through personal coaching. The main focus of the lecture [...]

ProjectX is still ProjectX

I just want to squash a rumour that is currently floating around.
ProjectX is still owned 100% by ProjectX. Trade Me has NOT brought ProjectX contary to the rumours floating around.
We provide map services to Trade Me and several other companies in New Zealand and Australia.
We have over 350 developers using the ZoomIn Mapping System in [...]

My current must read blogs

I have been re-organising my blog subscriptions and here’s what is in my must read folder.

Kathy Sierra’s Creating Passionate Users
David Seah
Hugh MacLeod’s Gaping Void
Guy Kawasaki
Paul Graham
Rod Drury
Seth Godin
37 signals’s Signal vs Noise
Robert Scoble
Tim and Nat’s Simple and Loveable

More Productivity tools…

Tim from Decisive Flow posted a blog article last week about 5 tools to help with your productivity. I would like to throw non web 2.0 tools into the mix.
Sugar
The opensource Customer Relationship and Sales Management system. I have been using Sugar for the last 9 months for our contact management and Sales. Its [...]

Speaking of books

One of the Creative HQ residents, Chaos Dimention have released a beta version of their new book site -chaosprofessionals.co.nz. The site is an online book seller specialising in Technical and Business books. So whats the differentiator to Whitcoulls and Fishpond? All the books listed on the site have one price inclusive of shipping.
So I [...]