I was originally going to do these once a month, until they came flooding in so thick and fast that they just demand being published. For today’s it’s All Hail the Mighty Target, (Australian branch), who, in an interesting wrinkle on recent controversies, (forgive the pun), are here found guilty of not air-brushing their models [...]
Posts Tagged ‘business’
New blog deserves our support
Posted: February 9, 2012 in Business Management, Popular Culture et alTags: business, business philanthropy, giving back, Mark Tipping, The Different Company, The Tipping Point
I was contacted by Mark Tipping to alert me to the arrival of his brand new blog (and related business) which is called, brilliantly, “The Tipping Point“. http://www.thetippingpoint.me. If the rest of the blog is as good as its name, we’re in for a treat! Having read his first couple of articles, it sounds to [...]
Search Engine Optimisation – debunking the myths
Posted: August 30, 2011 in Business Management, Popular Culture et alTags: blogs, business, Search Engine Optimisation, Search Engine Optimisation myths, Simon Probert, SOE, the internet, websites
Very interesting and helpful article (the first of a series, apparently) about Search Engine Optimisation (SOE) and what does (and doesn’t) work in getting people to click on and read your blog and/or website. http://fastthinking.com.au/group/articles/index/3eea-seo-debunking-the-myths Written in easy-to-understand Plain English – hoorah!
Qantas “not in Top Ten safe airlines”
Posted: August 30, 2011 in Business Management, Popular Culture et alTags: airlines, business, Cadel Evans, cycling, Qantas, safe airlines, Top Ten safe airlines, Tour de France
Qantas is not even in the world’s Top Ten airlines for safety according to this body … despite never having lost a passenger, as pointed out so amusingly in Rain Man. Not even the safest in Asia. (Anyone who’s ever flown on most Asian airlines, if you’ll forgive that tortuous sentence construction, will raise an [...]
Don’t you wish your company was as cool as this?
Posted: August 24, 2011 in Business Management, Popular Culture et alTags: advertising, animation, business, Lionhead Studios, logo, marketing
Many years ago, I advised a client to (temporarily) mis-spell the name of his company on a billboard to make more people look at it. He didn’t understand the point, and has since gone out of business. Have a look at this. No, I don’t know how they do it, ’cause animation’s not my thing [...]
The 5 Billion Dollar F*** Up
Posted: August 24, 2011 in Business Management, Political musingsTags: BP, British Petroleum, business, compensation, Gulf disaster, Gulf oil spill, management oversight, oil spill, risk, risk management
It was just your average “Nah, that’ll do, we can fix that later, stop fussing, that’ll do” moment that any middle manager could have had, really. BP Plc. so far has paid a mind-bending $5 billion to people who were affected by the 4.8 million litre oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico after the [...]
