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  • Nothing but the Best

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    This is the time of the year when we all like to reflect on the past year’s “great” and “not so great” achievements and make personal changes to help us achieve our new goals next year. Tuesday afternoon was one such time at the Brio HQ when I was both laughing and teary at Belinda’s…

  • Biggest PR disasters of 2010

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    As 2010 draws to a close I thought it might be time to remember those who’ve made our time at the hairdressers reading trashy mags just that little bit more exciting. So I started to do a little searching and came across this article on Mumbrella about the top 10 PR disasters of the year.…

  • U2 Concert 2010

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    Tanya Heading

    My favourite band of all time, U2, dropped into Brisbane last week, and I was lucky enough to see them – front row! It was an absolutely fantastic concert, with some songs from their new album, but also the classic hits “Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” and “Where The Streets Have No Name”.…

  • Mark Zuckerberg, creator of Facebook, named Time magazine’s ‘Person of the Year’ for 2010

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Have you heard that Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of the international digital phenomenon social networking site, Facebook was named Time magazine’s 2010 Person of the Year yesterday. The Facebook website (www.facebook.com) currently has more than half a billion users, I am one of them–are you? Time magazine defines their Person of the Year as…

  • The old Holden that could….

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    An Australian designed and built car that has become an icon of Oz motoring, the EH Holden, has not only completed the recent Peking to Paris motor Challenge but managed to finish in the fastest overall time, and win the pre-1968 Classic category. Piloted by Gerry Crown (at least outside China – he was considered…

  • Spare Ticket event connection site launches in 12 days!

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    There’s 12 days to go until Australia’s first event connection site is launched and the Brio kids seriously can not wait! With the huge amount of festivals, concerts and cricket coming up this summer (and the huge amount of people I know on Facebook trying to flog spare tickets) this site couldn’t come soon enough!…

  • Aussie James West tracks down the Trans in time for Thanksgiving

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Each year there must be millions of emails about Thanksgiving preparations hitting American inboxes from loved ones. Nothing unusual there. It’s a big holiday and no doubt takes loads of organising. Florida’s Tran family send dozens of preparation emails each year; but unbeknown to them the James West (one of their relative’s partners) they’ve been…

  • Apple teases ‘Black Friday’ shoppers

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Apple has advertised that they are marking the beginning of the Christmas shopping season with a special one day shopping event. You’re invited to “wrap it up” this Friday when the apple online store will be having a sale on iPods, iPads and other Mac gifts. This isn’t the first time Apple have had a Black…

  • Lighting of the Christmas Tree

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    Tanya Heading

    Love the Christmas spirit? Head to King George Square on Friday 3rd December to see the Lighting of the Christmas Tree. Brisbane’s Lord Mayor Campbell Newman and a host of special guests (including Santa!) will be there with performance excerpts from Queensland Ballet’s The Nutcracker and plenty of your favourite Christmas carols. Festivities begin at 6:45pm…