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As mentioned in my previous post, CeBIT Day 1, I met Jason Calacanis and Tyler Crowley at CeBIT and they invited me to their hotel for a bloggers breakfast.

It was incredible to be invited to the breakfast.

The breakfast was a very casual event where we just chilled, socialized, networked and learned about each other. Jason was also streaming live on his UStream. We took some great videos and I will post those up in separate posts.

Some of the people at the breakfast included:

• Jason Calacanis, www.mahalo.com, @JasonCalacanis
• Tyler Crowley, www.mahalo.com, @steepdecline
• Duncan Riley, www.inquisitr.com, @DuncanRiley
• Phil Morle, www.pollenizer.com, @philmorle
• Mick Liubinskas, www.pollenizer.com, , @liubinskas
• Callum Macdonald www.callum-macdonald.com, @chmac
• Mike Cannon-Brookes www.atlassian.com
• Richard Giles, http://scouta.com, @richardgiles
• Alan Jones, http://doingwords.com, @bigyahu
• And many more (sorry if I missed anyone)

I arrived nice and early, and spent most of the morning at the breakfast. It was a really great experience, with so much knowledge sharing and lots of fun.

As you can see, most people are very active on twitter. Remember to follow me too. @JoshAnstey

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I was lucky to be asked to speak at the ACS@Skills Alley at CeBIT

My presentation was about being an entrepreneur, and how to get started as an entrepreneur. I covered a variety of areas from the startup roadmap, to social media and networking and personal branding.

The talk was really great and I really enjoyed passing on the knowledge. The audience response was great and there were some really great questions and discussions after the event.

If you would like me to speak at your event, please click the speaking page and contact me.

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Yesterday was the first day of CeBIT Australia 2008.

I spent most of the day walking around checking out the show and the many businesses exhibiting. It was quite interesting and it is always good to see the new technology.

I have to be honest, I didn’t find too much of the technology that new or innovative. This is probably because we have so much access to the latest innovation via the web, but still it would have been good to see some more innovation. Hopefully we will see more next year.

I went to a talk about Social Networking, and how to use this for customer relationship management. This was really interesting, and beneficial. It’s amazing how social networking has developed. I also met up with two of my twitter buddies, @Alegrya & @RichardGiles.

I was hanging out in the ‘bloggerzone’, and met Jason Calacanis and Tyler Crowley from Mahalo. See below for a bio.

It was so great to meet Jason & Tyler. We had a good chat about the web, Australia’s IT industry and a few other topics of interest. They then invited me to have breakfast with them the following morning. I will discuss this in the next post.

Overall, the first day of CeBIT was interesting, and the highlight was definitely meeting Jason Calacanis & Tyler Crowley.

Jason Calacanis Bio:
Jason Calacanis is an internet entrepreneur and blogger. He is now the CEO of Mahalo and is one of the leaders in the internet world. He founded Weblogs inc. which was then bought by AOL, and was later appointed the General Manager of Netscape. Other ventures of Jason include Sequoia Capital which has been a driving force behind so many of the tech and web businesses we know so well today. Jason has also co-founded TechCrunch40, which was later changed to TechCrunch50 with Michael Arrington from TechCrunch. Jason is definitely one of the web world leaders.
Jason Calacanis in Wikipedia

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On Tuesday 20th May till Thursday 22nd May, CeBIT Australia will be held at the Sydney Convention and Exhition Center.

CeBIT Australia is Australasias leading Information & Communications Technology (ICT) event for the business marketplace and covers all areas of IT including software & services, hardware, VOPI, IP Comms. The event is targeted at C-level executives, and other IT professionals. CeBIT Australia is a combination of a trade show and a conference.

In 2007, over the 3 day event, there were 33041 visitors and it has been growing each year.

I have been asked to speak at the Australian Computer Society (ACS) Skills Alley - branded ACS@Skills Alley at CeBIT 2008.

I am really looking forward to my presentation. My presentation is titled “Be an Entrepreneur”.

I will be presenting about entrepreneurs, how to bring out the entrepreneur inside you, and the roadmap to starting a business. I will also be covering the best way to use social media and web 2.0 to network, increase your personal branding and develop your business or start-up.

The talk is going to be great and I hope the attendees will gain a lot and learn valuable information.

If you are in Sydney, or will be attending CeBIT, get in touch with me and please come along to the talk. It would be great to meet you.

The details for the presentation are:

Be An Entrepreneur - Josh Anstey
Wednesday 21st May 2008
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Mezzanine Level, Hall 4
Sydney Convention and Exhition Center
CeBIT Australia
If you have any questions about it, feel free to reply to this post, send me an email or send me a message on Twitter. @JoshAnstey

I look forward to hearing your feedback, and meeting you at the pre

Earlier this week I presented at the Australian Business Week National Awards lunch.

I presented about my experiences participating in Australian Business Week, and how I have used the skills learned develop my career path.

The presentation went really well and the response was great.

I am looking forward to doing more presentations in the future. If you would like me to be a speaker at your event, click the Speaker tab at the top.

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I have been asked to speak at the Australian Business Week (ABW) National Awards ceremony which is on Monday 12^th May.

The Australian Business Week competition was formed in 1992, with the aim of creating a way for the business community to help the younger generation in appreciating business. The week involves groups of students running a simulated business, each assuming an executive role, having guest speakers, and also creating and marketing a product they have created.

Australian Busniess Week is now run in many schools throughout Australia and thousands of students each year participate.

The National Awards is a ceremony to congratulate those that have shown great ability in the way they have run their business throughout the week.

My talk will be about my experiences of Australian Business Week quite some time ago, and how that has benefited me in the years since and how it has had a great impact on my business career and entrepreneurial determination.

I am really looking forward to speaking at the awards.

I’ll keep you posted with how it all goes.

Josh

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I am a subscriber of Marketing Magazine in Australia, and have been one for about a year now.
The magazine is great as it provides a range of marketing information in all different areas as well as practical case studies.

Marketing Magazine just ran a promotion that started at Easter, and it was a really clever example of direct marketing. (I suppose you would expect Marketing Magazine to run a clever campaign).

Each subscriber received an easter egg in the mail, and if it had a gold ticket you won a prize.

As you have guessed by now, I opened mine to find a golden ticket. I called the number and won a free movie ticket. (Yes, while I opened it the song from Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory went through my head – ‘I’ve got a golden ticket’).

Anyway, the main message from this was the really clever effective direct marketing campaign that Marketing Magazine was running.

For all the marketers out there – think of a simple effective way you can create a direct marketing campaign with your current market.

Let me know what you think of.

Good luck!

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TechCrunch is one of the most important resources for Entrepreneurs. If you have not heard of TechCrunch or do not follow TechCrunch, I strongly suggest that you start now. It is a great way to find out what is happening in the Entrepreneurial world, and especially the latest news in the world of web 2.0.

TechCrunch was founded by Michael Arrignton, who is one of the most influential bloggers on the web.

I read today on TechCrunch that Duncan Riley, a popular and great contributor to TechCrunch will be moving on. As Michael Arrignton put it, ‘We lost a Blogging Giant today - Duncan Riley moves on’.

Duncan Riley is also one of the most influential bloggers on the web, and he is moving onto his own venture called The Inquisitr, which I am sure will be very interesting and a great success.

I listed to a podcast on The Blog Herald with an exclusive interview with Duncan Riley about the move. It is really interesting, and I reccomend that you listen to it. He talks about the decision to move, the experience at TechCrunch, and what the future holds.

Good luck to Duncan. We look forward to seeing The Inquisitr grow.

Entrepreneurs, make sure you are following TechCrunch and The Inquisitr.

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As you have noticed, I decided to change the theme of my blog.

I had the other one for quite some time. It now feels like it is the beginning of a new era for my blog - a very exciting one.

It is very different looking at this theme, and will take some time to adjust.

I was wondering what you all thought of the theme?

Send me your comments and let me know what you think about my new theme and design.