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  • Hell Yeah or No

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    We can be easily inundated with requests, digital demands, work demands, life demands. Before you know it your week is blocked out with events, meetings and little time for you to stop and smell the roses. We’re all guilty of taking on a little too much but Derek Sivers “Hell Yeah or Hell No” is…

  • Kevin Allocca: Why videos go viral

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    Tanya Heading

    Kevin Allocca is YouTube’s trends manager, and he has deep thoughts about silly web video. In this talk from TEDYouth, he shares the 4 reasons a video goes viral. (This is the first talk posted from an amazing TEDYouth event. Many others will come on line next month as part of our TED-Ed launch. “In…

  • Barnacle. What a suck-up.

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    Tanya Heading

    Wow, this I need to get, it’s simple, affordable and very effective! This visually appealing single piece of moulded material sticks your iPhone to the windshield of your car or to your desk (or any slick surface) without the use of unsightly tape! Reference and more information here. Yours in making life a little easier,…

  • Interview: Andrew Apostola, Creative Director at Portable

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    We interviewed Portable’s Creative Director Andrew Apostola about Brisbane’s creativity, product design and challenges in design in the coming year. What excites you most about Brisbane’s current design / creative industries? We’ve been following the progress of the Edge over the past few years and have been really impressed by the space and the opportunities…

  • SOPA: Clay Shirky’s P.O.V

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    With SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) on the tip of everyone’s tongue, Clay Shirky offers a unique point of view on this movement that has the potential to change how we interact, create and view the web. What are your thoughts on SOPA? Is it necessary? Yours, Belinda.  

  • When in doubt, link

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

      Hi February, where did you come from?! This week has turned into a little whirlwind and rather than write a long-read or similar I thought I would share with you all the links I’ve been squirreling into my Instapaper (if you don’t have an account I highly recommend signing up. Takes all the stress…

  • Cut

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Recent findings from a number of large scale studies of consumers and their habits suggest that less choice equals more sales. Interestingly, secondary conclusions for this hypothesis suggest that less choice converted to quicker decision processing and therefore greater sale conversion. Could these findings be due to the time poor nature of consumer habits or…

  • Gentlemint – Pinterest for Men only

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    I’ve been using Pinterest now for only a few weeks and it has become yet another procrastination tool that I have become addicted to! If you haven’t seen Pinterest, check it out at www.pinterest.com or better still you can follow my boards @ http://pinterest.com/paul_vb/ BUT now I have found a second version of Pinterest called Gentlemint…

  • Dear Future Me…

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    What would you say to your future self if you had the opportunity? Work harder, work less? Tell someone you loved them? Choose a different offer and see what could have been? As Steve Jobs said in his 2005 Stanford Comencement Speech: “We cannot connect the dots looking forward, we can only connect them looking…