A recipe for rural success: How to build a business when you don’t live in the city
More and more, networking and support groups are being setup in regional and rural areas as home based business and small business become more attractive.
More and more, networking and support groups are being setup in regional and rural areas as home based business and small business become more attractive.
Australia’s first hyper-local social media network, Nabo, recently successfully completed an additional round of funding from investors Seven West Media and Reinventure, an independent venture capital firm backed by Westpac. The amount raised in this round remains undisclosed though. Nabo enables residents, community organisations and community groups online to instantly and directly connect with others…
First, of all I would like to note that there is a really big difference between audience and community. An audience is one-way. Not interactive. Not social. An audience passively watches or reads. An audience doesn’t participate. Or share with others. On the other hand, a community is a two-way conversation. A living, breathing thing….
Australian local food pioneers Food Connect and CERES Fair Food have joined with the National Farmers Federation to call on the ACCC to break up Australia’s supermarket duopoly and ensure a more just, equitable and sustainable food future for Australian families.
Recently, I walked into a store crammed with people, lusting after technology, gathering, trying and buying new tools and toys. Then, five minutes later, something happened that stopped me in my tracks: the whole store erupted into cheers. Everyone stopped what they were doing, literally hundreds of people, and started applauding with vigour. Here’s why.
What Yellow Pages has done with this campaign is spend (undoubtedly) an enormous amount of money reminding you that it exists. In the process, it may have also unwittingly demonstrated the strengths of its competition.
What Yellow Pages has done with this campaign is spend (undoubtedly) an enormous amount of money reminding you that it exists. In the process, it may have also unwittingly demonstrated the strengths of its competition.
You might think you have a pretty good grasp on what makes an effective leader. You might even think you’re pretty good at explaining it to others. But it’s unlikely you can do a better job explaining it than this roughly shot three-minute video of a lone, shirtless guy dancing at a concert.
It’s becoming impossible to get through the day without hearing some expert or other holding forth about personal branding. But could we be at risk of taking ourselves too seriously?
The real value in this new digital media landscape rests with networks and the ability to extract what is interesting and useful from the cacophony created online by pornographers, pontificators and penny-stock pushers. Last August, US business magazine BusinessWeek lifted the lid on Business Exchange, a social media initiative that it had been developing for two years.
Something a bit different this week. At Anthill, we’re keen advocates of great design as a gateway to untapped creativity. We place immense emphasis on the design of our finished product (something Australian business magazines traditionally have not prioritised) and it’s something we take time to appreciate in the work of others. So it was…
So you’ve had enough of the dog next door barking all night, not to mention the techno music two doors down. And, what’s that, it’s the third time this year someone has broken into your car? Now you can share your inside knowledge about your street/neighbourhood online and research the opinions of candid locals in…
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