Unravelling the Twitter-verse
1: It's a channel, not magic Twitter is a communications channel. It needs to fit your audience and your brand image, most fundamentally if your customers are not on Twitter don't waste your time there. If your customers are on Twitter then you should be too. New...
3 traits you need in event management
Personality matters When people find out that I'm an event manager, they often say "Wow, I bet you're really good at that" or "That's so you!". Recently, I've been asking these people why. What personality traits or working strengths make a good event manager?...
Event planning: Getting started
Need to plan an event but don't know where to start? Right here! Sharon and I are busy planning a conference in October at the moment and are finding ourselves going back to our project plan to measure where we are on it. Are we on schedule? What needs to be shuffled?...
AWS Meetup: What to expect
Thinking about coming along to Wellington's AWS User Group Meetup? If you have anything to do with, or want to learn about AWS from the community in Wellington who are actually using it, come along! You can register and hear about the updates here. Amazon Web...
The Importance of Cash Flow
It is crucial to keep track of your cash flow. Whether it's personal finances, or in business, cash flow is a key part of keeping your business viable. If you spend, spend, spend and don't have the money coming in to cover this expenditure, it's belly up or borrow...
Chasing Aged Debtors
Chasing aged debtors is up there with cleaning the toilet and life's other less desirable chores. But it has to be done, money has to come in so that it can go out, and let the account cycle continue. That's why it's so important to send monthly statements. There are...
Accounting in the cloud
Do your accounting from anywhere! We tell our young children of a time when the big black phone hung on the wall. We had to put our finger into the right number, dial it to the end, let it whizz back and start again with the next number (hard to believe it was only 30...
5 tips to refresh your CV or resume
We've put together 5 tips which will help your write a CV and help you find a job now. Be clear on who you are and what you do The top of the page needs to have your name, contact information and what you do in a clear and crisp way. For example: Bronwyn Scott...
GovHack: What it is, what it means and why we are involved
Shaun McGirr takes us through it all There are some pretty strong negative connotations to the word "hack". Most people envisage sweaty individuals in a room full of screens cracking into sensitive information to bring the world to its knees. Unless they're "good guy"...