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This train of thought started as an email response to a post by Nat Torkington last month, in which he lamented the shortage of experienced and capable business staff in New Zealand - the “deal-making CEOs and well-networked bizdev gurus.”
I’d been thinking and talking with others along the same lines over the past six months, [...]

We’ve added RSS feeds for your favourites on Eventfinder, which makes it easy to add a list of events you’re going to be attending to your website or blog. Kudos to Stuart Maxwell for suggesting this one, it’s brilliant.
For those with a recent version of WordPress and a widget-capable theme, it’s even simpler. [...]

As Sid points out, I’ve been away from here far too long. Hopefully this marks a (semi-permanent) return to blogging! First up we launched social networking on Eventfinder (the Symfony site I’ve been working on full time since Nerds Inc) last week and it’s really taken off - traffic stats are up 20% [...]