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  • Budweiser pool ball

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Just when you thought you had seen all the combinations possible for sports, think again. Budweiser have invented their own nightclub sport known as Pool Ball. This is a clever marketing stunt by Budweiser who has been very active of late with their viral marketing campaigns. The idea of the “sport” is to combine football…

  • Social media at the forefront of news coverage

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Proof we don’t do things in halves, the universe threw two of the century’s largest moments into three days – a royal wedding and the takedown of the world’s most wanted terrorist. And proof of the changing ways we communicate in the 21st century, social media was at the forefront of alerting the world. The…

  • iPhone gadget goodness!

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Just when I thought that I’d seen the best of the iPhone gadgets available, I’m forced to think again with the impending release of the Wow-Keys Keyboard. The keyboard acts not only as a docking station for your iPhone, synching your iTunes and charging your mobile device, but it also allows you to utilise your…

  • A couple of WordPress tricks for plugin developers

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    A couple of little tricks plugin developers should use when creating a WordPress plugin are: 1. Always have debugging on In wp-config.php you need to look for the line – define(‘WP_DEBUG’, false); Change this to – define(‘WP_DEBUG’, true); This will show any errors within database queries, and errors that you may come across as by…

  • The perfect real life paintings of Robert Brownhall

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Q Weekend Magazine recently featured the story “Shot on Site” which is about Brisbane born and educated painter Robert Brownhall. This story immediately drew my attention as I was very taken by the pictures shown of his work. His subjects are mostly office towers, bridges, suburban houses and skylines that form the backdrop of our…

  • The Royal Wedding – a social media affair?

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    It was reported yesterday that tweets will be banned during Prince William and Kate Middleton’s Royal Wedding ceremony today. That’s right it was alleged signal-blocking technology would be installed at Westminster Abbey, preventing social media leaks by those privy to be up close and personal with the pair. The fears were reportedly about the possibilities…

  • Now here’s how to be creative applying for a job!

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    In France, Victor Petit in his pursuit of finding an internship at a communication agency took inspiration from an iPhone app that mimics mouth movements to the lyrics of a song by electronic duo CASSIUS. The idea being that you put the phone screen over your mouth so it looks like you are singing!!! Not…

  • PR Disaster of the Year Winner: Vodafone!

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Last year BP’s oil spill took the cake, but this year it’s looking like Vodafone is a clear front runner in the PR Disaster of the Year Award. Vodafone is quickly becoming one of the most hated brands with its embarrassing lack of coverage, voicemail & SMS delays, billing issues and poor customer service. Vodafone…

  • Choose your words carefully – they could change your world

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    We often forgot that with the rise of social media it’s not enough to simply send your message out into the world; it needs to be understood quickly so it can be processed and acted upon even quicker.