I have done a fair bit of capital raising over the years (both for listed and unlisted companies) and every time one does it, it requires a new approach. More often than not I am asked to help with an unlisted company that is a start up. The general rules that have worked for me [...]

I spent the weekend in Byron Bay with my old friend, Wayne Young, talking about movie production, new business models for content and how the digital world is changing everything… Wayne was responsible for some of the great Australian communication memes of the 70's and 80's including the “Its Time” campaign for the Labour Party [...]

Last night I went to a belated Thanksgiving dinner at some friends, one of whom is American. One of the guests was a journalist who I haven't seen for at least 15 years – Bruce Elder. (Bruce is one of the most knowledgeable music journalists I have ever met and was incidentally a big supporter [...]

I have had a number of branding jobs over the last few months. What is interesting about developing brands is that every job is totally different. Developing a brand architecture for an enterprise requires for there to be a real insight into how the model works, what the underlying brand promise is, and most of [...]

I have started a blog for those of my students who want to stay in touch with matters relating to convergence, media and communications at www.perceptric.wordpress.com. I am going to be changing this blog in the next two weeks to be focused on my consulting business and on how Intellectual Property businesses can benefit from [...]

I was talking to my friend Roo, this morning, as we walked on the beach with our wives… and it was an absolutely beautiful morning. He said that the QE2 (that is the Quantitative Easing policy announced by Ben Bernanke during the last week, not the ship…) was set to release so much money into [...]

Its the end of the semester here and my teaching gig is coming to a close. Its been very interesting and a lot of fun and its also been a learning experience. 115 students in the course, and 22 in the tutorial that I teach, and then 7 in the other course that I teach… [...]

Last night on Australian TV's #1 political debate program, the highly innovative Q and A, we saw live TV at its most innovative… audience participation Iraq style…

George Zieman has undertaken a long term analysis of music sales and shipments in the US. He sent me a link to a report that he has just posted which you can read the detail of here. George is not just a recent observer of reporting trends on music sales – he has been doing [...]