Hi, I’m Craig Bailey and this is my personal blog where I write about technology, business systems, HubSpot and general life experiences. You can read my posts here.
(If you are looking for the Content is King post by Bill Gates it is here)
I’m involved with three agencies in Sydney:
I also co-host HubShots, the podcast and YouTube show focussed on getting the most out of HubSpot. We are the creators of the HubShots Framework.
I really liked John Galloway's post on The Man who Knew Too Much, in which he outlines the wrong assumptions and actions we can sometimes make/take when surrounded by smart people, being too busy, etc. However, the item that caught my attention was his link to the strategy of aspiring to be the dumbest person in the room (it's about 2/3 the way down the page in Sally's answers)...
Here's an email our Sys Admin received in reply to a query to a vendor whose product wasn't working on our servers…
It made our decision to select a new vendor pretty easy.
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Scott Guthrie has noted the hot fix fixes… Note, it is a huge download – coming in at a whopping 2.6 MB :-) See, it's not that hard to get fixes out. I said yesterday that I was impressed with how intent on producing high quality software Microsoft has been of late. This is yet another example. I need to be careful or I'll start getting labelled a fanboy. Technorati Tags:...
We finally said sorry today. I agree that we removed a "stain from the soul of Australia".
An apology is a liberating event. Forgiveness is the healer.
Never underestimate the power of words.
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Alan Lee gives an overview of how we reduced our spam email count here at Elcom. Interestingly, Alan found that 95% of all our email was spam – a figure that matched with reports I mentioned earlier in the year. The numbers: In the first week of implementing the changes we blocked 206,563 emails out of a total of 217,768 emails. Alan sent me an internal email with calculations of the cost...
Happiness Strategies continues the good oil for Valentine's day – this time reminding people in a relationship about focusing on the good list – not the so called widow's list.
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The always excellent, helpful and well researched Virtual Hosting Blog has another ripper with this post on Tips to Defeat Content Thieves.
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Yes, there are dangers to social networking, and this report outlining how gangs are targeting kids via social networking platforms is another to add to the list.
(via the Freakonomics blog)
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Even though their ad share slipped ever so slightly in quarter 4 last year, they still pulled in over $25B. I can't believe people click on so many ads. I mean, who is actually clicking on these damn things? I noted before that I don't even see the ads, but it seems many do. I'm so stunned by this that you may have noticed I've started experimenting with AdSense on my various...
XML turned 10 years old on10 Feb. I remember working on a project back in the very late 90s (can't be sure when but it was using SQL 7.0) and we decided to use XML as a mechanism for storing certification results (so yes, we were using XML in SQL 7.0 – quite an achievement in itself). Towards the end of the project our boss at the time (he left the company a year or so later) pronounced...