My Antarctic photos being used for art lessons

Nic's Hypnotherapy site

I helped a dear friend, Nic, create a web site for his new hypnotherapy business.  

See innerpeachypnotherapy.com.au

Email a few months after launch

Nic

The website is working great. I have a steadily growing number of clients. My supervisor (who knows a lot of starting practitioners) said I'm doing amazingly well, I'd say mostly thanks to you! The guys doing my SEO all commented on how good the website look and how much better that all the other hypnotherapy sites are!

Graeme

That warms my heart to hear. I’m so glad.  The web site was very much a joint effort and many of the best ideas were yours. But it was wonderful to be able to help.  If you decide you want to add functionality, just shout. 

Launch of Wisdom Trove

 

Branding suggestion for Nic's new business

I'm building a web site for my friend, Nic. Here is my suggested brand concept.

Aimee's web site

I helped Aimee create a simple but effective site to sell her book. I took all the photos, including the book cover.

https://aimeedavies.com

Site for Christina

I created a web site for my artist friend, Christina, to advertise her art lessons.

View site

Thank you poem

A beautiful poem Aimee wrote to say thank you for helping her with her site.

Web site for Aimee

I created a site  with Aimee for her spiritual poems and articles.  She writes so very beautifully.

See the site at aimeedavies.com

Helping Aimee with her poetry site

Web site for Brendan

Brendan has a new job working for an investment firm.  I created a simple web site for him.  Lovely to be able to help.

The Piano Studio

Here is a site I built for my friend, Lydia.

My resume (1994 - 2008)

My Blackglass bio

Graeme is an online strategist who specialises in the development of digital roadmaps, marketing communication plans and functional specifications.

Involved in the internet space since 1998, Graeme has a passion for all forms of digital communications. His 10 years of experience in the interactive industry provide him with deep strategic insight into how effective capitalisation of the digital channel can transform businesses.

During his career, Graeme has worked in over 8 countries and has developed and implemented online marketing strategies across multiple industries for both multi-national and start up companies.  He has also managed the design and development of multiple internet and extranet sites and online applications.

Clients that Graeme has worked for include La Trobe University, Sydney Airport, Dulux, Hanson, Virtual Medical Centre, Kerri-Anne Kennerley, Old Mutual, Volvo and Bank Hapoalim.

Some examples of Graeme's achievements are as follows:

• Developed an online marketing strategy for Hotdockets and subsequently built a database of 100,000 members and monthly revenue of $40,000 through ad serving, sponsorships and affiliate marketing within a year.
• Developed an online strategy for Volvo and managed a range of online marketing initiatives that more than doubled the number of monthly visitors and leads in 18 months.
• Led a rebranding exercise for Bank Hapoalim, Israel's largest bank, and developed a web site that won awards for being the strongest financial web site in Israel.
• Initiated and developed an online portal for Old Mutual (a large financial services group) that was rolled out to 25,000 brokers and reduced communication and administration costs by 35%.

Graeme has worked for Blackglass as a strategist for close to 3 years. Before that, he worked as the global e-commerce manager for Volvo, based in Cambridge in the United Kingdom, and before that, as a lead stategist for Siegelgale, an interactive agency based in London.  

Graeme has an honours degree from the University of Cape Town.  He majored in business strategy and economics.

My CV

Blue Freeway Xmas Party

Farewell to Danielle

Danielle from work is moving to Melbourne to work from our newly established Melbourne office. Her farewell was very festive and much Sangria was drunk (we were at a Spanish Tapas restaurant.) Working with Danielle has been a real pleasure (she is one of the best designers I have ever had the pleasure to work with) and we will miss her a lot. 

The Race that stops a Nation

Today was Melbourne Cup and as usual, Australia came to a grinding halt. It amazes me how horse racing mad the Aussies are when it comes to this annual event. Not that everyone watches the race - its more an excuse get out of work, dress up and get totally pissed. Not to mention a bit of gambling too. Our bosses were in Melbourne, watching the race first hand. The rest of us went for a slap up buffet lunch on the harbour. Here I am with Kate Best and Kate Bofman.

And here's Mark who is leaving us in a couple of weeks. Very sad.
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Some facts about the Melbourne Cups

• Started in 1861 (Melbourne was only discovered in 1833)
• The cup is always held on the first Tuesday in November
• The race is 3200 meters long
• Since 1877, the day of the Melbourne Cup has been declared a public holiday in Victoria. Its a virtual holiday everywhere else in the country too.
• In 1930, the famous Phar Lap (some would say the best racing horse to ever live) won the Cup as the shortest priced favourite in the history of the race at 11/8.
• The Melbourne Cup trophy is a stunning 18 carat gold trophy valued at $80,000.
• The fastest time for the race is 3 minutes, 16.3 seconds. That's an average speed of 59 km per hour!

A day in the life

Darling harbour on the way to work. Note that Kerry works in the building below to the right.




Our Office - an historic building in the heart of town



Me in the office



My favourite haunt for lunch - Hero Salad where you can customise your own salad. My favourite: mixed leaf lettuce, hot squid, brocoli, mushrooms, spanish onion, pea sprouts, parmesan and walnuts. Yum!!!



Views of buildings outside our office

View of the city on the ferry home. Notice the brooding clouds. Its been a stormy day.

Sunrise from the ferry - you can see our flat in the background