From Pigs Don't Fly
January 17, 2012 at 6:58 am
It seems like even the laggard brands are now finding their way on Facebook. And what better way to kick things off than running a big promotion with a big prize.Wrong.Brands are ... (
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November 27, 2011 at 1:00 am
What a year I've had, two media 'scandals' in six months. In May I was accused of writing offensive tweets that supposedly meant I couldn't do my job and just last week I apparently ... (
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October 18, 2011 at 8:49 pm
I don't pay for most of my content, and I haven't for a long time.Even my once beloved DVD collection has been replaced by torrents. My music and television shows have long been ... (
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September 13, 2011 at 1:18 am
I went paint balling on the weekend for the first time. Not only did I leave with a few welts across my back, but also with a feeling of how poorly the business was managed from ... (
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August 14, 2011 at 10:06 pm
My post Move Fast and Break Things got a fairly good response so I decided to present it to some undergraduates last week. After the presentation I was talking to some students ... (
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August 2, 2011 at 9:48 pm
About a year ago, I wrote how it was possible to merge unofficial Facebook pages if you had a big enough media buy.However a recent change now means that anyone can apply to have ... (
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From Pigs Don't Fly
July 26, 2011 at 12:30 am
'Move fast and break things' is a philosophy I've stolen from Facebook's work culture. Anyone who's seen The Social Network movie, will know this ideology is at the core of everything ... (
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From Pigs Don't Fly
June 14, 2011 at 3:58 am
So how much is an invite to a Facebook page worth? I'm sure there's various conflicting studies out there, so I thought I'd do some research of my own. I asked people how much ... (
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From Pigs Don't Fly
June 5, 2011 at 4:25 am
Sean Cummins wrote a pretty serious piece regarding anonymous comments on the internet.Here at Pigs Don't Fly I'm a fan of the anonymous commenter. I mean, I've received everything ... (
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From Pigs Don't Fly
May 31, 2011 at 5:11 am
For the whole of May, I decided to go without my iPhone. Effectively, I went without my iPod, camera, email, calender, Angry Birds, Google Maps and Facebook.It was interesting ... (
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May 18, 2011 at 6:57 am
A few months ago a water feature was installed on the corner of Swanston Street and Collins Street in Melbourne. For a while, the large stone wall with water cascading down one ... (
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April 28, 2011 at 12:47 am
The gents over at Native Digital ditched their iPhones. And I thought I'd do the same, so for the month of May I'll be iPhoneless, instead using this Samsung "burner" I picked ... (
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From Pigs Don't Fly
April 16, 2011 at 2:18 am
Why hello there. Not much activity here lately, something I'd like to change but not sure if it's going to happen. I have a few things in the works, so we'll see.In the mean time, ... (
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March 22, 2011 at 8:48 pm
Here's some fun statistics for you that I promise I didn't make up.71% of peeps are becoming more selective regarding the pages they Like on FacebookThe two main reasons people ... (
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February 5, 2011 at 2:06 am
Nearly everyone likes to think they're creative (even if they're not).I'm certainly one of those people. We like to flex our creative muscles where we can, but never really go ... (
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February 2, 2011 at 3:50 am
The Advertising Standards Board (ASB) regularly receives quite a few ridiculous complaints. Thankfully, most of the time they're dismissed.But I wanted to test it out myself. And ... (
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February 1, 2011 at 2:19 am
Yesterday I arrived home from a trip around the world in 21 days. For the final unit of my degree, we traveled to Hong Kong, London, Milan, Madrid, Paris, New York & Los Angeles. ... (
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January 4, 2011 at 6:10 pm
I'm going to call it the popularity paradox, where something becomes too popular and peeps turn away from the lack of individualism. It's in every aspect of our lives from avoiding ... (
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December 13, 2010 at 5:20 pm
I've come to hate my DVD collection.It was once something I was proud of; a collection of great movies that had grown considerably over the years. In fact movies were the only ... (
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From Pigs Don't Fly
November 29, 2010 at 6:51 am
Stephen King wrote the novel Misery that later become a movie of the same name. Although I've not read it, Wikipedia tells me it's a story about a women who rescues an author after ... (
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November 9, 2010 at 11:33 pm
Yesterday I stepped out of my last exam thus completing a Bachelor of Business (Management/Marketing) from Monash University. Well technically I still have a piece of assessment ... (
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From Pigs Don't Fly
November 6, 2010 at 2:31 am
Research is flawed. Incentivising it creates a defective outcome.But as I sat in a focus group the other day I couldn't help but wonder if someone had ever deliberately partaken ... (
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October 20, 2010 at 3:35 am
Old timer Julian Cole wrote a cracker of a post, Six Tips to Nailing an Internship. I was fortunate enough to do two internships with Naked Communications and George Patterson ... (
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October 16, 2010 at 11:03 pm
Today my blog celebrates its third birthday. Over the past 365 days I have...+ Posted 70 times.+ Had 16,765 visits.+ Had 29,224 pageviews.+ Received 441 comments.+ Peaked at 657 ... (
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October 4, 2010 at 8:37 pm
Perhaps naively, a few years ago I promised I would never run AdSence on this blog.Well I haven't quite broken that promise, but perhaps I've come close.I was recently approached ... (
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