Author Archives: Angie Rapisarda
TED Talk – Drew Curtis: How I beat a patent troll
In 1993, while a student in England, Drew Curtis began sending links to his friends. Over time that grew until he founded a website for the links: Fark.com. The site has now grown into one of the largest, and most irreverant, news aggregators on the web. Drew Curtis tells the story of how he fought [...]
CMO’s Guide to Social Media Sites
The social-media landscape has grown since last year with an additional 5 more communities/platforms added and a quite a few of them are already booming. So, which social media tools and channels will work best for your business? This years largest growing community is Pintrest, which reached 10 million monthly visitors in less time than [...]
What Makes You Shop?
Kathleen Noonan’s Last Word article titled “Things That Make Us Shop”, in the Queensland Life section of the Courier Mail last weekend caught my attention. Kathleen was referencing River Clegg’s writing of “Buying This Thing Will Make Me Happy”, from McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, the literature site founded by author Dave Eggers. Noonan’s article refers to [...]
Shilo Shiv Suleman: Using tech to enable dreaming – TED Talk
Has our technology — our cell phones and iPods and cameras — stopped us from dreaming? Young artist Shilo Shiv Suleman says no, as she demos “Khoya,” her new storybook for iPad, which floats us through a magical world in 7 minutes of pure creativity. I found this very interesting. Shilo Shiv Suleman is an [...]
Is Your New Year Looking Positive?
With the start of the new year, most of us like to take the time to reflect on the past year and what we will do to make this year better, all with the best intentions, whether it be with New Years’ resolutions or changing your mindset with a positive attitude. Positivity is contagious. Is [...]
Selleys – “Fast” Dresser
I have to have a bit of a laugh whenever I see this commercial, but ladies, you have to admit, it is very funny and so true. Selleys clever marketing has done it again with their new commercial for Selleys No More Gaps Fast Dry that is obviously very quick and easy to use. The [...]
TED Talk – by Luis von Ahn – Massive Scale Online Collaboration
Luis von Ahn Luis von Ahn builds systems that combine humans and computers to solve large-scale problems that neither can solve alone. After re-purposing CAPTCHA so each human-typed response helps digitize books, Luis von Ahn wondered how else to use small contributions by many on the Internet for greater good. At TEDxCMU, he shares how his [...]
Matisse at GOMA
Art lovers will agree that Henri Matisse was an artist of classical greatness. His career was long and varied, covering many different styles of painting from Impressionism to near Abstraction. Early on in his career, he was viewed as a Fauvist, and his celebration of bright colours reached its peak in 1917 when he began [...]
Philanthropic Entrepeneurs
Philanthropy is emerging as a key activity of wealthy entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship in the field of philanthropy involves finding new and better ways for mobilising and deploying resources to make the world a better place The following entrepreneurs have each played a significant part in making this possible. Stuart Zadel , the mastermind behind the Think [...]
Celebrity Genius
One of my greatest loves is dancing and I appreciate the dedication and hours of hard work that goes into a professionally choreographed dance production having spent 25 years of my life as a “Dance Mum” during my two daughters’ dancing days. Dancing is an Art and it takes a true artist to be able [...]