Simple way to help the Christchurch Cafe community – christchurchcafe.com
Some of the hardest hit businesses are those that rely on day to day activity to ensure survival and cafe’s are no exception. Many of Christchurch’s inner city cafe’s are doing it real tough at the moment. With no way of getting into the corden, no customers and potentially months of waiting until they can start again many employers and employees alike are feeling the pinch. Carl Sara of Crafted Coffee Company has come up with a great way that anyone from around the world can do a small thing to help a large amount...
read moreChristchurch Earthquake – 22nd Feb 2011
This is a day many many people will never forget. I was just sitting down to start the afternoons work, editing some videos for the recent AAPO conference delegates, when, well how do you put this politely.. the most crazy, most scary event I have been through unfolded for hundreds of thousands of people living in Christchurch. After the initial quake hit Soph and I parked the car away from the house, loaded up some essentials and packed some clothes. I am one of the really lucky ones who has family about 20 minutes drive (usually) from...
read moreMissing Link Post Boxing day shift
In the aftermath of the Boxing Day quake in Christchurch, NZ there were many additional businesses that found they had to relocate due to additional damage to their buildings. Missing Link was one of those. Not only did they have to shift but they only had an hour to clear out the entire office and boardroom and load everything into a container. Once the word came through about this the word was passed through social media channels like Twitter and Facebook, people turned up who had never met the Missing Link crew before! It was truly...
read moreThe Haka Tours Epic Filming Road Trip #1
For those of you following me on twitter you might have noticed a few tweets around the end of Jan talking about the epic road trip I was truly lucky to be apart of, thanks Ryan!!. Basically Steve and Ryan at Haka Tours (www.hakatours.com) asked me to jump on a tour and film the antics. As a bit of a trial I agreed to join Verve and his tour from Kaikoura to Queenstown, filming the journey, the activities, the travel and anything else the group should get up to. Ever since I saw the first episode of Long Way Round I have been hooked on...
read moreA quick guide to Video Sitemaps
Ok your busy, you heard about online video sitemaps and want to know what they are. Here is the run down in about 5 minutes. Yes they are a sitemap that goes on a website No they are not simply an extension to a current sitemap Yes they are added to Google Webmaster Tools Yes they are XML format Yes there is lot’s of information on the web about them Yes THEY HELP DRIVE TRAFFIC TO YOUR WEBSITE Basically a Video Site Map is a custom file, created from a collection of meta tags based around your page and video content. Have a look at...
read moreOnline Video Products – Expanding Your Reach
Last weekend I was at the Fitness New Zealand conference, presenting for the first time. A friend of mine had dragged me up to talk about simple website tips (thanks Broni, I had a blast) Now I am not heavily involved in website design or creation but I know the basics and I guess it was that information they wanted sharing. Anyways while I was there I got talking to a PhD student from Melbourne. She got talking about an iPhone app she was using to gather data about diabetics throughout Australia and I started to pay attention. Anyways...
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