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:

  • The first is XEN Systems. We help government departments and mid-large B2B technology companies with their sales and marketing strategy, including implementation and training in HubSpot 
  • The second is XEN Create. We provide premium graphic design services to companies, with a focus on using the latest AI tools, including Midjourney
  • The third is XEN Solar, where we help high quality solar companies (dealers, installers) with their sales and marketing processes.

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.

Craig Bailey presenting

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Online demo on how to use the mouse

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Aleks at work sent this one around today – a demo on how to use the mouse. All you need to do is work out how to navigate through the web site and make it to the link and activate the link – all without using your mouse of course – in order to see the demo. Classic. Someone, somewhere is approving budget requests with the eagle-eyed financial scrutiny of the pointy haired...

Scott Scovell on BizTalk

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My good friend Scott Scovell is back in the blogosphere, and creating quite a storm in the BizTalk world. Scott and I used to work together at Talman, but he's now with Mick Badran at Breeze (and I'm at Elcom as I'm sure you all well know :-) Check out these beauties from Scott: BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Download Installing BizTalk RFID DLP Design DSPI Provider fails to register in...

Chad Fowler on the Software Rewrite

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Chad takes a look at why many projects fail when attempting the big rewrite. Written late last year (yikes! that's an eternity ago) the article is a series of insights in to common project failings. I especially relate to the Wishlist point (ie scope creep) which is the main issue that I've seen affecting projects of any type… 'Can we get some Web 2.0 experiences into this new...

Jonathan Schwartz is my new hero

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I’ve been reading Jonathan’s blog for a while now (he’s the CEO of Sun) because I love his honesty, curiosity and ability to think right outside the square. His latest post on reducing waste by improving efficiency is so simple and common sense as to be jarring – it caught me completely by surprise. I’ll never look at a computer spec the same way again. Technorati...

HP Printer pranks

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I'm not really one for office practical jokes, but this one from LifeHacker is pretty neat (if it is indeed real).
The joke involved changing the printer console to say 'INSERT COIN'. Pretty funny (well I think so).
(Submitted by Hackszine)
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Interwoven to buy Optimost

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Interwoven (a pretty big CMS player) is to acquire Optimost (a pretty small web optimisation company) for $52M. This is of interest to me, being in the CMS space, because I'm seeing a lot happening by the big ECM (enterprise content management) players. Enterprise has woken up to the benefits of ECM and CMS and it is no longer a hard sell. Now is the time for rationalising as the big boys...

Microsoft has an acquisition KPI

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Always one to one-up his Monkey boy grab of yesteryear, Steve this time tells the Web 2.0 conference that Microsoft will acquire 20 companies a year. Instead of outlining a strategy that details finding the best and most exciting technology companies and purchasing them (no matter how many, or what cost), he instead puts out a number (20) and a valuation range ($50M – $1B). Meaningless...

Scott Barnes and the RIA bridge

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One thing I really like about Scott is that he doesn't hold back – he speaks his mind. At times you might resist a little too much bias, but this is a small cost compared to the value of his posts. His latest post on RIA is long (too long probably), but important reading for those following the RIA debate (what debate? I hear you ask :-). Whilst he touts maturity (namely...

Popfly, Popfly, Popfly

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Believe the hype – Popfly really is that impressive.
I've only done the most basic of tutorials, but you can see here how a mashup of Live images and Photo sphere works. You need to sign in with a Live ID to make something, but anyone can view/use it if you choose to share it.
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The best database/OS/tool to use?

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More from Atlassian, this time their Developer blog, with the best answer to the question of 'which <insert tool/OS/etc> should I use?…' that I've heard in a long time. Their answer – the one you have the most confidence administering.
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