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Leadership and Attracting the Right Team: David Anstee

ByDes Walsh

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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSThis week I had the pleasure of interviewing David Anstee co-founder of rapporr. David is a seasoned founder with CEO experience across start-ups, media and technology sectors. He founded and sold two media and communications businesses to establish Australia’s 2nd largest direct advertising agency. He’s an active…

Social Media Not an Easy Call for Financial Advisors

ByDes Walsh

When I accepted the invitation to keynote the Hillross Annual Conference 2012 in Canberra, Australia, focusing on practical strategies for social media, I was pretty sure that one of my main challenges would be finding examples of successful engagement via social media by financial advisers. Part of the problem is that financial advisers operate in…

Telstra Shuts Down Corporate Blogging Experiment

ByDes Walsh

  Telstra, Australia’s still-dominant telco, yesterday shut down its corporate blogging site nowwearetalking.com.au CEO David Thodey’s letter announcing the shutdown promised “Telstra will launch a new corporate blogging website later this year”. In keeping with the expressions of opinion from the opinionati when nowwearetalking launched back in 2005, from congratulatory/welcoming through curious/cautious to dismissive, blogosphere commentary…

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PitchEngine Asia

ByDes Walsh

As regular readers and subscribers will know, one of the things I do these days is look after the Australia and New Zealand market for social media release platform PitchEngine. Some exciting news for me this week on the PitchEngine front, with particularly practical implications for the many Australian and NZ companies marketing into China…