Well folks we would like to thank you for the truly fantastic response to our recent competitions, the winners will be announced today. In fact, it went so well, we may even run another one shortly…

A friend and reader recently mentioned they were hoping for inspiration from these blogs… we trust this will suffice….
Sonam and Bayermaa, lived in the great mountains, near Paryang in the heart of western Tibet

I was at a customer appreciation event for a large telecommunications company in Beaver Creek last week. Jonny Moseley, 1998 Olympic gold medalist in freestyle skiing …

When do you hear anyone saying these days that they’re quiet, have nothing to do and are bored in the weekends? That’s right: NEVER. Our lives have become trends of busyness: the more worn out we are, the more we seem to score.

Do we continue to re-invent the same wheel? Yes and no. Yes we do go in circles and no, we discover a new way by spiraling out of the box we were in.

Us Kiwis are well known for our ingenuity or number 8 wire mentality and after seeing the technology and innovation being showcased during Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW).

Dreamer – Someone who can describe some future hoped for situation, but has no clear date for when they want to be there, and isn’t actively right now pursuing that vision.

Very good presentation by Philippe Starck on why design is important.

How can you tell whether a favorite activity such as playing golf or working jigsaw puzzles has grown beyond leisure activity into a positive addiction?

Web 2.0 Expo NY: Gary Vaynerchuk (Wine Library), Building Personal Brand Within the Social Media Landscape

To increase your creativity, you simply need to act like a creative person. Not surprisingly, people recognized as creative tend to share common traits.

Why do people succeed? Is it because they’re smart? Or are they just lucky? Neither. Analyst Richard St. John condenses years of interviews into an unmissable 3-minute slideshow on the real secrets of success.

Complaining is negative personal branding: you help create your own negative image by whining. Yessirree. This also means that positive branding occurs when you are shining the white feathery light of upliftiness.

Seth Godin had another excellent point regarding the fact that to other people, it’s never about us, it’s all about them. We know this, but don’t always act on it.

Nowadays the real world translates into the virtual global maze of networks. Since I’ve started tweeting there’s a whole new dimension to being online for me. Compared to facebook I find tweeting more fun and the interaction immediate. (No games and gazillion quizzes to do.)

We’ve all had an “Ah-ha!” experience at some stage, you know the “when the penny drops” moment. Today’s Web2.0 business environment is still such an unknown quantity to many it’s little wonder the penny hasn’t dropped there for a large majority.

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” Mark Twain. Jeanne, a friend of mine who owns a corporate training company told me how she got started. Or actually didn’t.

In these challenging times, new ways of thinking and action are required to keep a business performing strongly. For those approaching their business with a “bunker down until the storm finishes” approach will no question find this competitive landscape tough.

Most New Zealanders will not know Richard MacManus and his flagship web site ReadWriteWeb.com. Nor will most New Zealanders know that ReadWriteWeb.com (“RWW”), at the time of this writing, is ranked the 9th most popular blog in the world.