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Archive for July, 2011

Divorce in a weekend

Having worked in matrimonial law and seen first hand how unneccesarily dragged out a divorce can become, I love that the Dutch have opened the Heartbreak Hotel to help divorcees-to-be. Their weekend service sees couples in…

Bacardi’s Facebook “Likes” Are Real

As brands struggle to engage their fans on Facebook, it’s great work from Bacardi to take the “like” button and turn it into real live events. Fans voted for their favorite cocktails, music acts, foods, activities & entertainment, which were then…

5 Things Social Media Can’t Do

I love this little blog from Econsultancy which outlines 5 things social media can’t do for your business – customer service being one of them. It’s refreshing to address why…

Micro financing to help the world

When we started Zuni we all agreed we wanted to make a difference to the lives of those less fortunate in the world. As we were lucky enough to start with 4 foundation clients, we felt we could pay it forward to several start ups around the world through the Kiva micro-financing platform. For every client we have, we’ve invested…

Wordle

If you haven’t come across this yet, give it a try. Wordle is a neat little tool that creates word clouds pretty easily. It’s great for presentations to add some instant impact and there’s a gallery of other people’s which are interesting. The customisation of fonts & layouts make it even better. Check out Zuni’s [...]

Sydney Opera House gets a taste of Nick Cave

Jealous, yet absolutely delighted. Jealous that Three Drunk Monkeys got to do something like this, yet absolutely delighted that my bridal waltz (yep, that’s right) is now the showpiece in the Sydney Opera House’s latest video. I remember the…

Zuni funds its 11th Kiva loan!

Zuni has always been fascinated by crowdsourcing. Now we are fascinated by the notion of crowd funding.  According to good old Wikipedia, it can be defined as: ‘The collective cooperation, attention and trust by people who network and pool their money and other resources together, usually via the Internet, to support efforts initiated by other [...]

Looking for a new role?

The Cooperative Research Centre for Young People, Technology and Wellbeing (YAW-CRC) is looking to fill three new roles. They’re looking for…

CEO Education

It seems the higher up the chain you get, the less opportunity there is to facilitate your own educational growth. There’s training to be had, but putting yourself first is rarely…

Finally a Great Automotive Banner

I wouldn’t normally include 2 banners in the one issue, but this one was excellent and I couldn’t resist. I’m no petrolhead but I found myself clicking…