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by Chris Hanlon on January 25, 2012 in Interesting topics
Okay this was seriously too cool not to share! Below is an interactive infographic, scroll down and see the history of Google. Be sure and click on the plus (+) signs that come up each year as it gives a snapshot of what happened that year, which browsers were popular what the most popular meme [...]
by Chris Hanlon on December 14, 2011 in Interesting topics, marketing
Time to share some of the interesting stuff from the past few days… Media Mingle I have been asked to travel up to Auckland to attend a Media Mingle event(#mediamingle) for months and months now, but the timing never clicked until last night. I had a ball! If you ever get the chance to go, [...]
by Chris Hanlon on December 7, 2011 in Interesting topics, Starting a Business
We have all had those conversations, right? People who know us, like us but just don’t ‘get’ us. Sometimes it makes you wonder yourself… I was catching up with my friend Stuart the other day, we had not seen each other for a while. He commented on how busy I appeard to be. So [...]
by Chris Hanlon on April 28, 2011 in Interesting topics
Ignorance is Bliss… I always thought this was a trite and pointless saying until now. This weekend I and three of my Telecom team-mates took up the NZ Oxfam Trail walker 2011 challenge. We thought it would be challenging -this is where that ‘ignorance is bliss’ comes in. I have done a number of challenging, [...]
by Chris Hanlon on January 20, 2011 in Interesting topics, marketing
In some of my recent communications to Small Business owners I have said that they need to be aware of the trend of mobile. Of their customers always being connected and of the growing use of location based social networking such as FourSquare. I think that this video clip illustrates the point very well: What [...]
by Chris Hanlon on September 26, 2010 in Interesting topics
Just adding this video summary to this post for your viewing pleasure: I am writing this now with heavy eyes and suppressed yawns after a long, but extremely satisfying day. This morning I was picked up at 0730 for the drive up to Auckland for the long anticipated TEDx Auckland 2010. I went with Adam, [...]
by Chris Hanlon on September 9, 2010 in Interesting topics
Okay, I had to share this one. When I went to TEDx Auckland last year I was particularly enthralled by this talk. I tried to tell everyone I work with about it (I had taken lots of notes), and of course I talk about it in my blog post from last year. Well today I [...]
by Chris Hanlon on August 20, 2010 in Interesting topics
The video below was shown at a recent TED conference in the US and apparently got a standing ovation. The video is not particularly good, which isn’t the point. The insight regarding the video is exceptional. It redifined what leadership meant to me within 3 minutes… See if it will do the same for you? [...]
by Chris Hanlon on August 3, 2010 in Interesting topics
Yes, yes, I know. -I haven’t posted anything on here for quite a while and now I am fobbing you off with some sort of public notice announcement… Well I have been very busy, and the upshot of that is that I hope to soon have a lot more time for sharing some very useful [...]