We decided to ask you, our very innovative readers, to tell us how you have tweaked your own business models to build new revenue streams and make money in this destructively distracting economic climate (rather than ‘save’ it).
And, of course, we’ll publish the most interesting, innovative, inspiring and instructional in our Apr/May/Jun print edition.
It’s been two weeks since we announced that Anthill Magazine would be reducing its print frequency (in favour of a fuller, fatter quarterly) and that we would be simultaneously re-launching our website (part of a concerted push into digital media).
Everybody loves transparency in government, right? Well, a US federal agency, called the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, has taken this hallowed principle to a whole new level with the launch this week of RECOVERY.gov. The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board consists of Inspectors General from about ten major cabinet agencies, including the US Departments…
When we made our big announcement yesterday that Anthill Magazine had become a quarterly publication, we never expected to receive the flood of emails, SMS messages and phone calls of support. But we were intrigued to discover that we’d become a discussion topic among the chirperati on Twitter.
Let’s start with the bad news… Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or an ant hill) for the last six months, you will have noticed that the global economy has suffered a significant downturn. Sadly, despite our best efforts to find innovative solutions to whichever obstacles cross our path (in true Anthillian style), Anthill…
This week we flooded our readers’ inboxes with a wide range of stories, semi-obnoxious headlines, serious opinions and a spattering of irreverent, odd-ball items of information from around the globe. We did this to get a better idea of just what interests our readership as a whole, and you personally.
While the email technology can’t read minds (literally), it can self-optimise.
After listening to a colleague chasing payment from recalcitrant debtors earlier today, I felt compelled to dig up this infectiously funny email chain from South Australian David Thorne. When asked to settle his electricity bill, the commercially creative Adelaide man offered to settle the matter by way of a ‘spider’ drawing. The following is the…
I often trip myself up, spouting strong opinions without all the facts. I suspect this is about to be one of those occasions. Deficits don’t worry me too much (I’m too young to remember the bad-old-days of high deficits and spiraling inflation) and, as a generally optimistic, gung-ho entrepreneur, I’m all for a stimulus package…
In mid-2008, we wrote about a clever Australian company called TrickyTix on the topic of Product Development. TrickyTix CEO Scott Handsaker provided us with the following prescient quote, which I’ve paraphrased: “If you’re not slightly embarrassed about your new web product when you launch, you’re too late.” This week, we launched a new website. You’re…
“Obama’s address was almost entirely free of campaign style rhetoric or obvious applause lines. Its seriousness of tone contrasted sharply with the mood of the masses gathered to hear it; in the run up to the inauguration chants of “Obama” rang through the crowd and even afterward the crowd was in a feisty mood — offering mocks cheers and waving goodbye as former President George W. Bush flew overhead in a helicopter.”
To begin with, hats off to the 700+ readers who nominated Australian innovations over the holiday period! At a time when most people are at the beach, you came out in force, unearthing some seriously hot innovations from Australian organisations both big and small. This is an astonishingly good start for a new initiative. However…!…
Gladwell defines a tipping point as a sociological term:
“the moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point.”
The book seeks to explain and describe the “mysterious” sociological changes that cause an idea (or product) to go viral. As Gladwell states, “Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread like viruses do.” He then suggests triggers for making an idea ‘tip’. One of these involves harnessing the power of ‘influencers’.
Former wine wholesale owner, Andrew McAllister, switched bottles for burgers when his small wine wholesale company started to head south. Getting the taste for Urban Burger fare, Andrew, 36, ended up opening a franchise in Richmond, Victoria, with plans for a second in Glen Waverley. On my rounds trying to flog wine to bottle shops,…
Graphic designer Leah Bartholomew had a creative vision – to turn her art into a solo exhibition. With a little help from her friends and clients (and some social networking savvy), Leah’s vision came true last month – in optimistic shades of autumn. When Leah’s first solo exhibition, ‘Where the dry leaves fall’, hit the…
Working in magazines, you’d expect that I like to read. What you wouldn’t expect is that I sometimes find myself quite lonely, without anyone to talk with after reading the latest paradigm-shifting page-turner.
Part of the problem is that I often hear about about great books before they are launched in Australia (a perk of the job).
I promptly order them from Amazon, after which, I am forced to keep the many percolating thoughts running through my head to myself, until the said thought-jigger finally gets a release down-under.
So, here’s my idea…
Not so long ago, I received an email sporting the colourful headline, “I am pissed off Mr ‘ethical businessman’.” Receiving the odd spray is all part and parcel of the job. If someone is overtly rude, I usually hit the ‘delete’ button and get on with my day. But while I don’t mind people criticising…
When people pick up Anthill for the first time, they often ask, “Is Anthill just for young entrepreneurs?” My answer is a resounding, “No.” Anthill is not for young entrepreneurs. Rather, it is for people young in mindset (irrespective of age). I then get asked, “But isn’t entrepreneurship a young person’s game?” To begin answering…
Earlier this year, one of my favourite US business magazines, Fast Company, made the following observation: Win or lose, Barack’s rise reveals a new reality in the marketplace. The fact that Obama has taken what we thought we knew about politics and turned it into a different game for a different generation is no longer…
You may have noticed that every second Thursday, over the last few months, I have posted a blog on a topic that explores entrepreneurship. I hope that these aren’t coming too frequently (if they are, I’m sure you’ll let me know). Over this same period of time, there is one topic that has dominated the…
As you all well know, Anthill Magazine is committed to building a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in Australia. Our readers probably know better than most that the majority of Australian businesses don’t get innovation. As a nation we are facing new challenges. New ideas are needed. But only 34 percent of Australian businesses pursue…
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