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Top Five Sydney coffee hotspots for caffeine addicted travellers

On a road trip around Australia? Having the best time of your life exploring this magnificent continent? Excellent!

Does that mean you have to give up your daily caffeine fix in exchange for a wild experience down under?

No sir, it doesn’t!

When it comes to brain juice, Australians know all there is to know about it, having embraced the black bean more wholeheartedly than most countries in the…

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#coffee hotspots in Sydney #sydney coffee #travelling around Australia

I'm a Noob and I can now say "Amazeballs" to my "Fandom"

I’m a Noob and I can now say “Amazeballs” to my “Fandom”

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If you’re like me, trying to keep up with the vertiginous speed of change of the English language is quite the struggle.

Thankfully, the good people at the Oxford Dictionaries, the arm of the Oxford family that focuses on current English, are working to put it all in black and white for us.

So now, when you feel too exhausted to pronounce the “z” in Crazy and…

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#English language #english language changes #language evolution #languages #oxford dictionary #urban dictionary

No, video marketing is not just for the tech-savvy - Video marketing is for everyone

No, video marketing is not just for the tech-savvy – Video marketing is for everyone

With 6 billion hours of video being watched each month on YouTube, there is bound to be someone out there, interested in what you have to say or sell.

The cool thing about YouTube is that it transcends borders and budgets. In fact, you can come up with pretty awesome videos with a touch of creativity and a good sense of humor. No matter how far-fetched your product or how uninteresting it may…

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#online marketing #video marketing #video marketing campaigns

How much does an interruption cost you? - Seven apps that will force you to focus

How much does an interruption cost you? – Seven apps that will force you to focus

This week I’ve written approximately 60,000 words – blog posts, auto-responders, company descriptions, website copy, social media posts, video scripts, eBooks and more. To make matters worse, I had to switch from copy in Spanish to copy in English and vice versa

Don’t ask me how I’ve done it. It all feels like a blur.

One thing is for sure. It’s damn hard.

No, I’m not talking about the writing.…

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#apps to block distractions #apps to block internet #apps to block social media #productivity app

Tere: Hey you, tell me how to capture your attention with all this noise around us?

Yes, you – the reader, the buyer, the user, the prospect, the audience, the observer, the stalker (may be not you), the spectator, the player, the onlooker.

Tell me what’s going to take to stop you from clicking that button and moving away from me.

You, heartless run-away.

How do I get you to listen to my sob story once and for all?

What is it going to take for you to watch my dog running around…

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Why is letter X the great Unknown?

Have you ever stopped to think why on earth do we assign the letter X to anything and everything we are not familiar with? Mutants, files, factors, numbers, rays, and many other persons, animals, objects or entities of unclear description are classified as X.

Why?

Well, according to Terry Moore, director of the Radius Foundation, you can blame it all on the old Spanish scholars who attempted to…

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#culture #etymology #language #letter X #the unknown #unknown

The rules of content marketing keep on changing but, as we like to insist, CONVERSATION IS STILL…

The rules of content marketing keep on changing but, as we like to insist, CONVERSATION IS STILL KING.

So have participants at the Content Marketing World conference been told in Sydney today – the number of shares and likes a piece of content receives on the web are crucial in its efficacy as a successful marketing tool. Thanks to widespread high-speed Internet access and easy to use publishing…

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#contant that moves #content marketing #conversation is king #digital content #shareable content

"Young People are Just Smarter" - Digital Immigrants vs Digital Natives

“Young People are Just Smarter” – Digital Immigrants vs Digital Natives

Noam Scheiber, New Republic‘s Senior Editor, couldn’t put it any clearer – “Silicon Valley has become one of the most ageist places in America”. Yes, it seems Mark Zuckerberg’s premise predicated to an audience at Stanford back in 2007 that “Young people are just smarter” is now the accepted creed; that it’s better to be perceived as naïve and immature than to have voted (or have danced to…

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#ageism in the workforce #digital immigrants #digital natives #workplace discrimination

International Women’s Day 2014: Mothers and daughters around the world – in pictures… http://wp.me/s2hthv-2642

International Women’s Day 2014: Mothers and daughters around the world – in pictures

I’m reproducing here a visual celebration of women published by The Guardian and presented by Reuters on the eve of International Women’s Day. “Mothers and their daughters from around the globe”portray years of quiet female struggle to achieve equality among genders, particularly in Developing Countries. We…

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#developing countries #gender inequality #inequality #International women&039;s day #women from around the world

Thailand's Love Affair with Instagram

Thailand’s Love Affair with Instagram

A country inhabited by 67 million souls, Thailand has over 24 million Facebook and 1.5 million Instagram users. Not surprisingly, in 2013 there was a total of 36,443,398 photos and videos uploaded on Instagram from stunning Thailand. The natural and architectural beauty of the country lends itself to an Instagram frenzy, with people seeking a photo opportunity everywhere they go.

In 2012 the…

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#infographic #instagram #social media #social media in south east asia #thailand #thailand&039;s modern culture

A speck of hope

Derek Nichols recently tweeted a poem written by his 14-year-old brother Jordan.

The brilliant poem can be read both from top to bottom and from bottom to top with both readings offering a completely different meaning – an extremely clever, playful and innovative use of literary techniques.

But above all, Jordan gives us that little bit of hope many of us so frantically look for every day,…

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#best poem in the world #derek nichols #empathy #jordan nichols #poems #poetry

The highlands I once knew are fast vanishing - Cameron Highlands, Malaysia

I visited Cameron Highlands several times during my 6 year stay in Malaysia. When you live in…

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#Cameron Highland #DDT #Kuala Lumpur #Malaysia #Orang Asli #Tea

Zen, Manga and the Art of publich bathing - Outside-the-box accommodation in Tokyo

Japan has done it again. Despite putting up with a considerable deflation and a weaker yen, Tokyo…

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#accommodation in japan #budget accommodation in japan #japan #Kaminarimon #Public bathing #ryokan #Tokyo

Is Iran back in the tourist map?

Ben Affleck reminded us yesterday that Iran exists with the dramatisation of the 1980 joint…

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#Arg-é Bam #Argo #Ben Affleck #Iran #Iran tourism #World Heritage Site

Bhutan's intimacy with nature and all things happy

Until recently, there were hardly any mentions of Bhutan in the media. No surprises there – Bhutan…

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#Bhutan #Buddhism #GNH #Gross domestic product #Gross national happiness #Sustainable development

Size does not matter in New Zealand

No, size did not seem to matter to the lovely New Zealanders we came across in our last visit to…

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#Arrowtown #Lake Wakatipu #new zealand #New Zealand Queenstown #Oceania #Queenstown

The day the world did not end - Milford Sound

Waiting in Te Anau

On the 21st of December 2012, precisely on the day the Mayans predicted the…

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#Doubtful Sound #Fiordland National Park #Homer Tunnel #Mayan #Milford Sound #Mirror Lake #new zealand #Te Anau

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