Co-ordination is key to a great project

Landscape architects can create a great project and less problems for the client and contractor by coordinating with other design professionals and ensuring that there is constant communication between all design consultants,.

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Co-ordinating with the architects ensures the interface between the building and the landscape is complementary. Nothing is worse that exposed structure or ‘short’ steps ……

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What happened to my Google Reader?

Recently, my google account was ‘transitioned’ to new apps and when I logged in the next day everything was gone my google reader, google alerts, igoogle, etc. At first, I was angry that Google once again (I’ve had a few bad experiences with mail, reader,etc) had basically lost ‘my’ data but then you realise its ……

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Book Review: Read This Before Our Next Meeting by Al Pittampalli

Read This Before Our Next Meeting by Al Pittampalli is a new book from the Domino Project. A publishing project launched by Seth Godin “powered by Amazon”. The book is an interesting read and gives us a reminder of why we all hate meetings, especially the ones that drone on with no resolution in site.

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Creating ideas

Creating ideas is different for everyone, for some people its hard to do, for others very easy. For me I can create ideas fairly easily, but its often the place that makes the difference. The place I seem to be able to easily create ideas is on a plane or train. Its something about the ……

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Businesses are treating social media like a webpage in the mid-1990's

Social media is currently in the same place webpages where in the mid-1990′s where businesses where putting up their business webpage and expecting people to come and start buying. It wasn’t until businesses realised they needed to promote their website and integrate it with their existing marketing that their webpages started generating emails, calls and ……

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Six Link Sunday #4 | China, Crowdsourcing, Startups, Social Media, Retailers, Small Agencies

Six links from the week of reading and tweeting

China’s Businesses Boom, But Its Brands Don’t | NPR http://n.pr/ktaReu
Chinese companies booming at home and selling abroad through distributors but can’t seem to make a name for themselves.

Crowdsourcing: Tapping a world of ideas | Scoop NZ http://bit.ly/lro5UA
Excerpt: “Crowdsourcing is a call to the masses ……

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6 Questions you need to answer when planning a business, startup or idea

Starting a business, a startup or conceptualising an idea can be exciting and hard work but there is a need to focus on the basics so that you can then go to the next step by formulating and ‘fleshing out’ the idea. I have 6 questions I ask people when looking at a new idea ……

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Six Link Sunday #3 | Social Media Ethics, Search Trends to predict economy, Alipay, Money tightens, China

Another six links of the week for your Sunday reading pleasure.

Ethical social media dilemmas: What would you do? – Communication Conversations by Arik Hanson “….ethical situations come up and impact our working lives virtually every week. I wanted to highlight a few that I’ve bumped into lately below–and the way in which I’ve ……

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Starups: a new trend or signs of a bubble

Starups, a new term that is being used to described the new phenomena of celebrities getting involved in startup tech businesses. Gary Vaynerchuk recently spoke about the new trend as #starups and is predicting that it will be common place that celebrities will take percentage interest in a new startup in return for endorsement or ……

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Six Link Sunday #2: Funding, Starwood CEO, GaryVee, #Hastags, Two Boys

My best six links of the week for your Sunday reading pleasure and to catch up on the some of the weeks. Its always hard to come up with only six links as there is tons of great stuff on the web best ideas and sometimes a funny item to round out your weekend. Remember ……

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