There are plenty of ways not to add Twitter followers. Here is one: Here is what she should have done, and still can do: 1: Used her real name. We like talking to people not bots or spammers – and I’d like to refer to you by name not “she” 2: Started a blog – …
Monthly Archives: July 2009
iPhone prices – a failed experiment
NZ iPhone plan comparison It’s sad – but this great idea – a collaborative iPhone pricing spreadsheet for New Zealand – has completely failed. It’s a mess, there are people deleting things and Telco or device religion rather than science seems to be driving behaviour. I don’t care how much Vodafone’s rates are – their …
Tuesday Three: 3 ways to improve your business
Think like you think for yourself Switch to Gmail Get a ‘best friends’ telephone deal for your work. Don’t use a business deal if the personal ones are better Get rid of almost all of your printers – and make the ones you have harder to get to, and track printing by person/cost center. It’s …
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Why I don’t read Public Address
Via Not PC I see that there is a top NZ political blog ranking system. That’s interesting. Well not really – but I do like to read a range of views, and follow No Right Turn (#6, blogspot), Kiwiblog (#1), not PC (a rabble rousing #3 – also on blogspot) and The Visible Hand in …
What’s wrong with Telco pricing and how to fix it
Via the tidbits newsgroup an Aussie (amacbell) succinctly points out the problem with Telco pricing: I know of no other industry where you need to prepurchase on the basis of a best guestimate of the volume of units required for the month ahead. If you guess wrong and don’t use all the units you bought …
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Fixing the Berl report – some progress made
Some good progress on the saga of the Berl report on Costs of Harmful Alcohol and Other Drug Use. Berl have posted a response to criticism, including a letter of apology from Treasury. They note that the request for tender stated “You shall complete a cost analysis using an accepted framework and deliver a report …
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Tuesday Three: 3 ways to improve your business
Drinks are on the house, but only when in the house Buy staff beer and wine for Friday afternoons – but don’t put credit cards down at bars Cash in staff carparks – give them 50% share of the savings and encourage them to walk, use public transport, cycle or motorcycle Get everyone using IM …
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Fix the Berl report on alcohol and drugs
The Costs of Harmful Alcohol and Other Drug Use report commissioned by the Ministry of Health and ACC has been the subject of some controversy. It was written by five authors from Business and Economic Research Limited (BERL), and they got support from a range of people, including 9 people from ACC or Ministry of …
Lance Wiggs 