Following on from the first post titled ‘Five Australian startups to watch‘, I’ve now researched some more startups that’ve piqued my interest coming into the New Year. Part of this series is to highlight great stuff happening in our community and to bring awareness through link love to those innovating and creating in Oz. As […]
Sydney’s startup ecosystem visualised
I’ve recently started posting about what’s going on in Australia’s startup community, both here and on The Fetch blog. This involves regular featuring of startups that are piquing my interest and also some curatorial pieces on the coworking spaces and as of today, a list on the incubators and accelerators across the country. There’s been a […]
Melbourne’s Top 100
Be sure to grab a copy or peek of The Age’s (melbourne) magazine tomorrow as the annual Top 100 list for 2011 is out and a panel of judges deemed me worthy for inclusion! The Top 100 (which is apparently not ordered but for the record, I’m number 66) is a compilation of Melbourne’s most […]
10 global women with gusto
Over the years, I’ve had to increasingly deal with the position of a somewhat budding public profile. This mainly started with some time editing Marketingmag.com.au and more recently with general digital commentary to a growing Twitter audience. I’m mainly stating this not to bang on about myself (#yawn) but because I’ve found it quite an […]
Welcome to Brisbane’s fetch
Another post to briefly announce we’ve launched The Fetch in Brisbane. For those not aware what the fetch is The Fetch, I’ll recount some details… It’s basically a what’s on guide to your city’s business, digital and creative communities. It goes out fortnightly (or ‘biweekly’ for those in the US) and curates all the meetups, […]
Transience
There is nothing permanent except change. ~ Heraclitus I’ve been meaning to write a post about location independence for a while now… mainly discussing how I’ve been combining work with travel in the last two years and how a PO Box is now my official residence in Australia after recently selling a lot of my stuff. However, […]
Community management workshop
EDIT: I’m running another workshop on Tuesday 7 February! I’ve got a backlog of posts to come including a new Startups to Watch list, some thoughts on location transience and more info on my new project but for now, I wanted to share a workshop happening later this month. After a whirlwind few years of managing […]
Melbourne: hot off the event press
Sorry another post! Anyway, I’m due to arrive back in Australia this week and have duly organised some activities to keep us busy before year’s end. :) * Update 13/10 – I’ll also be at Socialmelb from 8am tomorrow and Hub Melbourne from 5pm. :) To start, there’s the Worldwide Instagram Instameet on 26 October […]
Uncovering the Berlin web community
Last month I was lucky enough to check out the creative and digital scenes in Berlin as part of the Grand Tour. As a city with a gay mayor, in a country with a female chancellor and a polarising past, I knew I’d like it. I started researching before I landed and was soon surprised, not […]
Five Australian startups to watch
In 2011, we’ve witnessed an explosion of enthusiasm in the startup scene with many people (especially journalists from traditional media) keen to feature what’s going on and who’s making it happen. While I’m strong advocate of any attention towards Australian startups in general – I’d love to see some more upcomers being mentioned. After doing some […]
What’s on in Sydney
So, today marks the launch of The Fetch Sydney! And of course, it follows on in the 80’s style tennis fashion of The Fetch Melbourne. The biweekly email curates the same style of content, so you’ll find a neat summary of what’s on in the business, digital and creative communities. There’s also a dose of […]
Photos from a Grand Tour
For those not on Instagram, I’ve been cross-sharing photos of my travels on Flickr here. I will also try to post a wrap-up of my findings from each city visited soon. The idea is to produce a Startup City Index measuring different parameters from each city such as affordability, community, access to funding and more-subjective things […]
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