Web Strategy Micksup

Seconds after birth

Originally uploaded by dhgoodman

I just started working with Xumii and as a part of it, we launched their blog this morning. Very exciting.
Why is it exciting?
Well, it’s certainly not my first. I’m estimating that I’ve started more than 50 blogs [...]

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So I hired a professional firm to do a floor plan of the office space at 1 Barrack St, Sydney, and here tis;

What do you think? 10k well spent.
Anyway, combined with the pics (see below) you can get the idea.
We had a meetup there today with a bunch of people interested in the [...]

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Debate: can we afford to allow our efforts to be spread across our big wide nation, or do we need to focus them on a single city? And if so, what city?
I’m a big believer that despite all the great technology, nothing yet beats having people in the same area and bumping into them time [...]

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Barcamp Parliament House

Originally uploaded by bigmick

So we’ve got some big ones coming up…
Firstly…
Barcamp Canberra is on Saturday April 19th. A week and a bit. If you’re in Canberra, you should definitely go. Even if you are only someone who loves tech, or loves the Internet [...]

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Terracotta Warriors
Originally uploaded by romainguy
Hey, anyone keen to do a flashmob in Sydney like they did at Grand Central in New York?
See video here…
Basically we all arrange to freeze for five minutes at exactly the same time and then unfreeze at exactly the same time.
Pitt Street Mall would be cool.
Or Town Hall?
Or Opera [...]

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Dave McClure on Facebook
Originally uploaded by bigmick
Last night I attended the first ever Sydney Garage for Facebook Developers. It was a reasonably good event, but a little too much seminar and not enough barcamp, although with some Barcamp Sydney vets in the crowd it nearly broke out into a Barcamp.
The crowd was mostly [...]

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2web
Originally uploaded by bigmick
We did the live recording of the 2web crew podcast and today I got to be special guest. Cool.
Podcast
Discussion
Thanks for the fun.

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True Local is Hopeless
Originally uploaded by bigmick
Every once in a while I think that in-house marketing teams at the big companies are getting their act together with web applications and that my services will no longer be required.
Then I come across something like TrueLocal.com.au and think - wow, they are light [...]

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