Life is what happens to you while you’re making other plans
- John Lennon
Started as an experiment in social media, this is a place where I'll keep you updated with any thoughts, expertise and the odd bit of Crescendo-behind-the-scenes I feel are worth sharing with the world. I'll also let you know how I'm going with the road-test, and tell you what you should try. Enjoy!
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009 
Comments OffI was in Auckland last week for work. I love Auckland. Now know I’m not supposed to admit that, but I do. And so it wasn’t all work while I was there, there was definitely some play too. The highlight? I went to Cirque Du Soleil! I swear my mouth is still sore from gaping, [...]
Saturday, August 8th, 2009 Comments OffAs every Wellingtonian businessperson knows, a café makes a fantastic office away from the office. When I first started my business, my partner and I ran it from the flat we lived in at the time. With flatmates. It wasn’t exactly the ideal spot to meet clients, and so I often set up in a [...]
Friday, July 31st, 2009 Comments OffToday I feel like going to a slightly philosophical place. Don’t get freaked out, I’ll go back to being cynical and factual tomorrow, but for now, I want to talk about energy. Not those horrible cans of guarana and sixteen types of chemicals, but the time and focus devoted to making something happen.
I went to [...]
Thursday, July 30th, 2009 Comments OffYou can read the latest of these over on the Wotzon website…
Sales. I think you either have it, or you don’t. We all know people who are excellent at it. I’m thinking of a very particular person – walk out of a meeting with him and you’ll find you’ve sold your soul for a kitkat, [...]
Monday, July 20th, 2009 Comments OffI just thought of two more benefits of the social media thing.
1 - It’s indescribably therapeutic. Have a problem? Blog about it. Several of mine have reaped results, and it’s better than keeping it bottled now isn’t it..?
2 - It’s a neat timeline of things that happen in your life. Unless you already write in [...]
Sunday, July 19th, 2009 Comments OffFrom the Artlantis website…
“Dave Chisholm graduated with Honors from the architecture school at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. He currently owns and operates a graphic & web design company, Crescendo Multimedia.
Dave’s first ‘real’ project, a luxury sea view residence, is currently under construction in Wellington, and several others are still in the design phase, including a [...]
Friday, July 17th, 2009 Comments OffI went to the Clemengers Digital Summit yesterday. Well, I went to the second half, because I was mainly interested in the case studies and also cos I’m usually late to things - no reason to change that now… In nicely circular fashion, I had found out about the event on Twitter, and so spontaneously headed [...]
Friday, July 17th, 2009 Comments OffFrom my blog over on www.wotzon.com…
Bet you can’t guess what I went and did last night. I know you can’t because not even I knew what I was doing last night until about an hour before I was invited. Ok, I’ll tell you…I went to a ladies-only golf night! Jess Moorhead of the Wellington Young Professionals (WYP) [...]
Monday, July 13th, 2009 Comments OffI have a new blog! You can read it on the Wotzon website. Here is the first entry:
Cashslow:
I’m normally a pretty understanding person. I always give people the benefit of the doubt, and am actually usually too lenient, even for my own good. Well, last week I got an email that just ticked me right [...]
Monday, July 13th, 2009 Comments OffStolen from Laura McQuillan’s blog… Click to see the ’special instructions’
Today’s entry is brought to you by the word Cynicism. Written like that, with a big Capital C. You know how there are plenty of scams all around, all the time? Some legal and just a wee bit sneaky, and others way less legal and downright prison-inducing. Nigerian millions, pyramid schemes, thigh-and-bun-blaster-2000, Madoff… there are [...]
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 Comments OffIdentity is a strange beast. It has been studied, discussed, and remains elusive. It has always been hard to define, even without the online world in the mix. But consider the fluidity and mystery of any kind of existence in the sphere that is the internet, and you have a whole new conundrum to worry [...]
Monday, June 8th, 2009 Comments OffThere’s a heck of a lot of information out there on the internet. If you have a job, run a business, have a hobby or two, you can go searching for relevant things to read until the proverbial cows come home. We all know this by now, (it is called the ‘information age’ after all) [...]
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 Comments OffSo here, just one day later… another blog entry!
I signed up for Twitter this week. Gordon from Onespec and SempreAvanti came and taught me all a newbie Twitterer needs to start tweeting. Including, apparently, the ridiculous-sounding lingo that goes along with it. Did you know people who use Twitter are known as Tweeple? Brilliant!
I can [...]
Monday, June 1st, 2009 Comments OffSo I’m a total newbie to blogwriting. Untrodden snow, fresh to the game, touched for the very first time… you get my drift. I’m actually a newbie to all things online networking, except Facebook. And that doesn’t really count, because lets face it, most people now use it to post compromising pictures, take quizzes to [...]
Crescendo is unlike any other web design firm I’ve ever worked with. Nadine and Dave over-deliver on every single aspect of web design - and they’re incredibly friendly and helpful while they do it.
I was constantly gob-smacked by their:
Passion and positive attitude: they love their jobs, and it shows.
Availability: my emails were always answered really [...]