Josh Anstey’s Blog

What a great exciting month October has been for blog.joshanstey.com!!! We kicked off the month with ‘Networking with Business Cards’ which is really useful in getting a better idea of how to use your business card to your benefit.

‘UPOD – Pronounced “You Pod” – Under Promise, Over Deliver’ gave entrepreneurs some business insight and ideas for future projects and developments. This is quite an interesting theory.

We are in the middle of what has been coined ‘Web 2.0’ and what better way to explore this than to post ‘Web 2.0 Galore’. A few great Web 2.0 sites and web 2.0 logos are on show here.

The benefits of mobile phones were seen in the article ‘Mobile Phone Opportunity’. This is definitely some food for thought for all you entrepreneurs out there.

‘Advertising Collection’ was a list of advertising websites that are a great resource for advertisers. You can never have too many resources, so this list is guaranteed to give you some very useful information.

Who would have thought there were rugby entrepreneurs? The 2007 Rugby World Cup provided some interesting ideas and insights into the mind of the entrepreneur. I explain this with my post, ‘The Rugby Entrepreneur’.

A quick view of how those that inspire us are living in ‘How to live like a billionaire’. There are some images of where the wealth these guys have created has taken them.

I found an interesting site that made online advertising really simple. Check out my article ‘Online advertising made simple’ to find out more.

My ‘Diary of a Start-up’ series started. This was very exciting, and gave a few tips and tricks from some of my experiences. Keep your eye out for more of these by subscribing to my blog.

‘Second Life Virtual Career Fair’was really interesting and amazing to see where the web has taken us.

No entrepreneur can go without it. It is so important to the success of a business. ‘The art of an elevator pitch’ explains all you need to know and how to master it!

If it’s Web 2.0 why can’t we have Marketing 2.0? ‘Tools for Marketers 2.0’ gives some tips and sites for being a 2.0 marketer.

My post ‘Internet breaks barriers, making US less relevant’ is topical, in the news, and gives every entrepreneur opportunity!

I was lucky enough to attend an ‘ACS Young IT Talk’ and this provided some interesting ideas and posts including ‘A straight line career path doesn’t exist’ and ‘Short term pay, long term gain’. These are really interesting and there is a lot to learn from them.

‘Are entrepreneurs scared of failure?’ was an interesting post that was thought provoking and is a must read.

Finally, we rounded the month up with ‘Marketing and Networking YOU!’ As an entrepreneur, you have to read this article so that you can make the most out of marketing and networking yourself to benefit your business.

What an exciting and developing month October has been. November is shaping up to be even better, with lots more information, tips and tricks for all you entrepreneurs out there. If there is an area or topic of interest that you would like me to blog about, send me a message here.

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This week, the annual Web Directions South conference was held at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Center.

Unfortunately I wasn’t able to attend this year, but I definitely plan on it next year.

A colleague of mine at Elcom, attended the event and kept a running summary on his blog. Click here to check out Anthony Milner’ Blog.

Click here for the Web Directions South website.

If you attended the event, I would love to know what you thought of it and how it was. As an entrepreneur, I am looking forward to some great ideas being born from this event.

This morning, Elcom held its ‘Experience Enterprise Search’ breakfast seminar, which was the first in a series of breakfast seminars. I blogged about this event a few days ago, and for the 7:30am kick-off, it attracted a huge turnout.

Here is a brief summary of the event for those that missed out. John Anstey, CEO of Elcom, gave an introduction about Elcom, and ‘Community Search’, the new product that is part of Elcom’s Community Manager.NET which was developed in-house.

Anthony Milner, Elcom’s Project Director, introduced the well known guest speakers Derek Jardine from Information Solutions, and Hurol Inan from Bienalto Consulting.

Derek talked about taxonomy, what it is and how to use it. He talked about the developments in the world of search, and did a live demonstration of taxonomy and Community Search, that had been implemented for the Austrade website. Derek’s presentation also focused on the best way of improving search results in the enterprise. Hurol discussed search analytics, where businesses go ‘right’ with search, and where there is room for improvement. It was really interesting to learn that through analyzing the search results, as well as the failed search results, you can hugely improve the user experience on your website.

This event held by Elcom was a huge success, and everyone that attended gained a lot from ‘Experiencing Enterprise Search’. I’m looking forward to the next one!

I will post any future Elcom events here, so that you can stay informed, and so that you don’t miss the next one.

Josh Anstey (left) and John Anstey (right) at Elcom’s ‘Experience Enterprise Search’ seminar today.

Click here to see the original ‘Enterprise Search’ Event post. “Elcom’s Experience Enterprise Search”

Elcom will be holding a breakfast seminar this Tuesday, 18th September, at the Australian Technology Park in Sydney.

The ‘Experience Enterprise Search’ event will focus on information in context – anywhere in the enterprise.

The ‘Experience Enterprise Search’ event will feature Australian taxonomy and information in context consultant, Derek Jardine, and search analytics specialist, Hurol Inan.

‘Community Search’ part of Elcom’s homegrown developed Community Manager.NET will also be unrelieved. The event is free and I would recommend it to you all out there.

For more information on the event click here

Elcom is a developer of online commerce solutions and software products for secure Internet, Extranet, and Intranet sites.

Click here for more information on Elcom Technology, the enterprise content management experts.

Click here for the follow up post about the event. “Elcom’s ‘Enterprise Search’ a success!”