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  • Where creativity and cake meet: Cakestar

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Let’s face it, sweets are forever in style. Who can’t resist a fancy dessert, a gourmet cupcake, or the sweet-of-the-moment, a macaroon? Whether it’s for formal celebrations like engagement parties or weddings, corporate events or just a swanky morning tea at home with cakes that are fine and fancy, you cannot go past Cakestar. The…

  • Social media in business is spreading like hotcakes!

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    I love to read fresh local stats that show how advertising budgets are being spent and looking for the trends in the data. I know it sounds a little nerdy but I have always been interested in how businesses are communicating to their audiences and have seen over the last few years, huge changes. The…

  • Behind the brand: SpareTicket.com.au

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Ever wondered what really goes on in agencies when they create brands? There’s a lot of brainstorming, cups of coffee, drawing and scribbling – all in the name of idea generation! It’s hard work, but a lot of fun. At Brio Group, we recently brought the SpareTicket.com.au brand to life. Everything from the branding through…

  • Save the date: Brio Group’s Ultimate Public Tea Party

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Brio Group is hosting the ultimate public Tea Party in Brisbane’s CBD, sharing 365 cupcakes with the community on Thursday 30 June 2011! It’s part of our 365 Ways We Care charity program and our clients, Facebook buddies, Twitter followers and the wider community are all invited. Join the Brio Group team at our Tea…

  • SpareTicket.com.au shortlisted for Qantm Create Awards

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Ok shameless plug here: we’re all very excited to have our website SpareTicket.com.au shortlisted for the Qantm Create Design Awards presented by Desktop! We’d love it if you ‘liked’ or tweeted us here: www.createawards.com.au/shortlisted/round-one/spareticket/ You can see all the round 1 finalists in the latest issue of Desktop magazine available at all good newsagents and…

  • Aaron Koblin artfully visualises our humanity

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    American data & digital artist Aaron Koblin states that: the 19th century culture was defined by the novel; 20th century culture by cinema; and the culture of the 21st century will be defined by the interface. In his captivating and visually spectacular TED talk, Koblin takes us on a journey of the changing relationships between…

  • How do you ‘Like’?

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    So we’ve all learnt to like, add, share, digg, stumble, tweet, flick and tumble all of our favourite websites, haven’t we? Well, just in case you don’t have enough avenues to share your life with Google has now created their +1 button! If you understand the concept of the Facebook ‘Like’ button then to simplify things…

  • The 6 basics of project management

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    So you’re planning a special event or renovating… to start with, a project must have a dedicated project manager to run, oversee and quality check all aspects of the project in order for it to be a success. Who are your stakeholders? That’s everyone with an interest or involvement in your project. e.g. Internal stakeholders:…