by cameron | Jul 15, 2005 | Melbourne, Podcast
Hey Folks! I’m very excited about this show, even more excited than usual. This week I’ve got an interview with my good mate Anthony Joseph! Now, Anthony, or AJ as he’s known by his many friends, was a colleague of mine at Microsoft. He worked there 15 years in all and was highly respected by everyone – especially by his customers. AJ was one of the most experienced account managers at Microsoft and had a string of “firsts” to his name – not just with Microsoft in Australia, but with Microsoft worldwide. For example, the very first “Enterprise Agreement” Microsoft ever sold was one AJ structured with our largest telco in Australia. He was also the first person in Australia to take the entire Board of Directors of a leading Aussie company (our largest retailer) over to Redmond for a sit-down with the bosses. Now, when you realize it’s a 24 hour journey from Melbourne to Redmond, you may appreciate what kind of an event that is.
Anyway, in his last couple of years at Microsoft, AJ lead the development of a consultative sales program called the ‘i360″ which was a world first and has had a significant impact on the way Microsoft account teams can add value to their enterprise customers. AJ has since retired from Microsoft and is in the process of writing a book on his sales process.
He is also – get this – one of the co-founders and a director of a Tibetan Buddhist Temple in Melbourne which was opened by the Dalai Lama a couple of years ago, a long-term practicioner of yoga, and attended an experimental secondary school in Melbourne called “ERA” where he practically NEVER attended class.
These stories and more on this show.
by cameron | Jul 7, 2005 | Podcast
JD Lasica is the author of “Darknet : Hollywood’s War Against the Digital Generation“, one of the co-founders of OurMedia.org and the author of the always-enjoyable New Media Musings blog. We caught up over Skype a few days ago to talk about the book, the old media vs civilization-as-we-know-it war, and why the darknet exists. Enjoy.
by cameron | Jul 4, 2005 | Podcast
A couple of weeks ago, leading Sydney AM radio host and journalist, Richard Glover, wrote an article for the Sydney Morning Herald which took a swipe at podcasting. I approached him to do an interview with me and, to his credit, he took up the offer. So I had a ten minute chat with him late last week.
Richard’s SMH article
Feedback to Richard’s article on my blog
Neilsen Radio survey
Richard Glover’s bio
by cameron | Jun 29, 2005 | Podcast
Most of us know Doug Kaye as the Barry-Whitesque-smooth-as-molasses voice emanating from the always-stimulating mp3s found at IT Conversations. Listening to the ITC recordings from POP!Tech 2004 were one of the motivations for me to start podcasting last year. Doug is one of the people in this world I am sincerely grateful for.
So when I had the chance, thanks once again to an email introduction from Buzz Bruggeman from Activewords, to chat with Doug yesterday, I wanted to know a little bit about Doug the man – his background before starting ITC, why he started ITC, and where he is taking ITC. For the last part, he was kind of enough to give me a scoop that even “Team ITC” haven’t heard yet! I know this because I’ve received several IM’s from Team ITC people today after Doug told them to listen into the show! 🙂
So that’s why y’all are getting TWO – count ’em ONE TWO – episodes of G’DAY WORLD this week.
Enjoy!
by cameron | Jun 27, 2005 | Podcast
I first met Amy Wohl over Skype about six months ago when Buzz Bruggeman was doing one of his “hey look I know a podcaster from Australia!” things, Skyping me from one of the 1000 or so conferences he must attend each year, to show someone how incredibly cool Skype is.
I then met her in person at DEMO in Arizona last Feb, and had a lovely meal with Amy and her husband, Buzz and Andy Ruff (Microsoft’s Entourage Product Manager).
So, who is Amy Wohl? Well she has been around the PC industry for 3o years, working as a strategist and consultant to most of the big PC firms. She knows Gates, Jobs, McNealy et al on a first name basis. THEY TAKE HER CALLS.
From her website:
Amy D. Wohl is President of Wohl Associates and one of the best known consultants in the computer industry. Mrs. Wohl is an acknowledged expert in office automation, graphical user interfaces and client/server computing. She was a pioneer in the field of word processing, but she works in many areas of computing. Mrs. Wohl is editor and publisher of Amy D. Wohl’s Opinions, a monthly newsletter.
Wohl is an experienced commentator on the computer industry and is widely quoted in business publications. She has been advising vendors on product design and marketing issues and helping end-user organizations plan for and design real systems for 20 years. Prior to forming Wohl Associates, Mrs. Wohl was President of Advanced Office Concepts Corporation. She also worked at the Datapro Research Corporation division of McGraw-Hill as Executive Editor of their Office Systems Group and Director of Office Automation Consulting. A noted speaker, Mrs. Wohl has addressed computer industry topics at meetings and conferences around the world. In 1985, she was awarded the Ada Lovelace Keats award of the Association of Women in Computing for her service to the industry and in 1994 was voted one of the Top 100 Women in Computing.
So gather round ye children and listen to us chat with someone who knows a lot more than you do. Or even us (and that says a lot!). 🙂
by cameron | Jun 21, 2005 | Uncategorized
Another shout-out to Raduza Mantego for his generous support! Raduza’s been tuning in since day one of G’Day World and he’s da man!
Future patrons will get included in a weekly shout-out here so I don’t clog up everyone’s RSS feeds. 🙂
A big final thanks to our first ten patrons. You guys rock.
by cameron | Jun 21, 2005 | Uncategorized
A big shout out to Graeme Nobes from Russell Vale in NSW for his generous support of G’Day World. You da man Graeme!
by cameron | Jun 21, 2005 | Melbourne, Uncategorized
Patron #8 is Matt Trentini! I met Matt for the first time at the Melbourne Bloggers Catch-up last week! Matt expressed his concerns about our business model on his blog recently which I appreciated. I love it when smart people like Matt help out testing our thinking. At Microsoft we referred to it as “Precision Questioning”. I love it. So I know Matt’s contribution is mostly because he figures we’re going to end up on the street and he doesn’t want that on his conscience!
Thanks Matt, that’s very generous of you dude!
by cameron | Jun 20, 2005 | Uncategorized
Geoff Appleby, aka Sofonda Cox, is Patron #7! Thanks Geoff! You da man!
by cameron | Jun 17, 2005 | Uncategorized
A big shout out to Patron #6 – the one and only Phillip Malone aka Molly of Mollyzine! Molly’s been keeping us honest since day one. He’s also the guy who prompted me to go to lengths recently to connect with Apple about iTunes. Molly’s oftent he first person to comment on all of our shows and tells us what he thinks! Mr Feedback! You da man Molly!
