Its official (finally).  IBM New Zealand has made public their plans to build a data centre in Auckland to meet the needs of current and future clients.  This has got to be a great opportunity not only for IBM but for organisations looking for secure managed services e.g. cloud solutions, PaaS, SaaS etc. I am excited because it allows [...]

Here is an interview with Chris Brogan about social media.  I lot of interesting points; You should spend 2 hours answering tweet, blog comments and email, this will actually decrease your email and improve your customer relationships. The cost of a full page advertisement in the herald is the same as employing a community manager [...]

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Last night on New Zealand’s TV1 a group of young Australian film makers spoke about their animated film entitled “Beached Whale”. This short film is funny as the actors speak with a Kiwi (New Zealand) accent and basically poke fun at their friends across the Tasmin Sea.

The last few frames of the short film sparked my interest as the film makers have added a small amount of viral marketing which is a URL to a cafepress where the film makers are selling merchandising.