Tag Archives: Rod Drury

#One liners – the heroically uninformed, comic strips & NZ’s broadband problem

By Julie Starr | Published: August 7, 2011

“Nobody should be that young, but the problem presented by these busy tyros is that they have no sense of the past even when it comes to the medium they have chosen to bless with their brash but heroically uninformed presence.” - Clive James on the lack of tone, culture and accuracy set by [...]

Posted in Journalism | Also tagged #oneliners, bbc, Clive James, comic strips, content, data, Derek Sivers, editorial comics, Hagar the Horrible, leaders and followers, leadership, mobile, New York Times, Pacific Fibre, Sam Morgan | Leave a comment

Why Twitter matters for business

By Julie Starr | Published: October 27, 2009

Catching up on some reading this weekend I read Rod Drury’s blogpost on xero.com (online accounting software company) about why Twitter matters for business. He does a good job I think of explaining the value of Twitter for anyone running a company. He starts by showing how Twitter has grown over the past couple of [...]

Posted in Social Media | Also tagged nz, SaaS, Twitter, xero | Leave a comment

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This is the blog of Julie Starr. I write about the news business and consult on newsroom integration and change projects.

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* Newsroom change management and web-and-print development for Fairfax Media NZ.

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