Monthly Archives: December 2006

Christmas post

December 20, 2006 – 11:29 am

Well, we have made it. The final couple of days of the year to run out and then we are launching into 2007. I am guessing that, as is usually the case for comms people, most of you have staggered through the last quarter of the year, trying to stave off burnout and [...]

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NZ newspaper sites relaunched

December 15, 2006 – 9:10 am

This morning both the New Zealand Herald and the Stuff websites (the Fairfax empire) were reskinned, and in the case of Stuff, relaunched with a new CMS. So, after a quick once over, what are my initial impressions?
Well, the obvious point to make is that they both look remarkably similar. Both have gone for CSS [...]

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Microformats and the social media release

December 13, 2006 – 1:39 pm

There has been quite a bit of discussion in the blogosphere about the social media release and its subsequent adoption by some of the big PR firms. And, as some agencies here are starting to use microformatted information in other applications, I thought it might be interesting to look at what these standards mean for [...]

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Transparency in government

December 7, 2006 – 10:35 am

Late last week Gallup launched their Worldwide Corruption Index, a poll ranking 101 countries according to perceptions of corruption in business and government. New Zealand ranks equal second with Denmark, behind the squeaky-clean Finns.
This comes on the heels of Transparency International’s assessment of NZ as equal first in their annual Corruption Perceptions Index, this time [...]

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Replacing email

December 2, 2006 – 5:03 pm

If you accept the proposition that email is broken, (and if you don’t I would be interested to hear how it is working for you) then I thought that it might be worth exploring a few options for working around the problem.
The first thing to acknowledge is that, as much as we would like to [...]

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