What and interesting couple of days - Twitter knocked back a takeover from Facebook, our first big corporate (AstraZenica) embraced CLIVE on mydr.com.au, the Australian National Broadband Network (NBN) tender closed yesterday with Telstra outlining what it will and won't do;  whatever happens next is too hard to say. 

Can the network that will lay down a communications and future economic infrastructure for the country been built without Telstra? 

Whatever, we'll soon know BUT the future is digital irrespective if Gerry Harvey thinks online is a waste of time.

First, I have the utmost respect for Gerry Harvey, he's done a great job in building his retail operations over the last 50 years - BUT the times they are a changing and the future ain't rocket science!

A new potential client has just been referred by a trusted source.  They are a Chamber of Business organisation in a region heavily focused on tourism so I'm definitely interested.There's a fair bit of information below and I hopefully don't drown you in it. 

The Current Website

I've had a preliminary look at the site and yes, there are a number of ways to improve.

First, a couple of questions.

1. Is there a ball park budget in mind?  How much it will cost is a bit like an open string.  What I've done is give you some thoughts and costings below.

The week that was!

An "interesting" week in the wide world of the web -

• Sensis (Yellow Pages/ Telstra) concedes defeat dumping it's search engine for Google search results; 
• we sat in on the Australian Broadband Conference and learnt more about the Australian National Broadband Network NBN shamozzle;
• there was a US Presidential Election (smiles) - the first tech savvy President!
• we had our first CLIVE Sales Partner conference and
• we tapped into the Web 2.0 Conference in San Fransisco.

How are the events related?

During the week Internet marketing guru Seth Godin, wrote a piece on "marketing lessons form the 2008 Presidential election."

One of his points "Influencing the Influencers"  

Seth writes,

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At a digital media conference gig the other night I met Silkcharm one of Australia's leading bloggers (see below) and her comments were enough for me to revisit the Twitter space again. 

"Yeha that sounds like a party" I hear you cry! 

From a business point of view, remember the techie geeks are driving online innovation, they invented PC's, email, the web, mobile phones, Ipods and Facebook that we all now take for granted and rave about - it's the Devil wears Prada of web stuff and if you want to know what's happening you need to be in their space.