Monthly Archives: June 2009

19/06/2009 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Testing twitter posting

By Ben Kepes

Hi all.. Just testing… nothing here to see, move along now!

17/06/2009 Posted in Business, Economic Development, New Zealand, Society 2 Comments

Charity Begins At Home – Lending for Small Business

By Ben Kepes

Image via Wikipedia Kiva is a US based peer-to-peer lending system that allows people to temporarily loan money to entrepreneurs in the developing world. Kiva acts as the agent hosting profiles of entrepreneurs for lenders to access, collecting the funds to be distributed through agencies on-the-ground, and, once a loan

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15/06/2009 Posted in Economic Development, Efficiency, Governance, IT, My businesses, New Zealand, Society, Strategy 2 Comments

Government 2.0 – A Way to Go

By Ben Kepes

Jim posted the incredible story of the New Zealand Immigration Service (NZIS) proposing a $117 million upgrade of IT infrastructure, a sum that equates, from Jim’s reckoning, to $234k per NZIS process worker. It’s a sorry tale and one that, as Jim points out, smacks of desperation, silo building and

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10/06/2009 Posted in New Zealand, Society 12 Comments

Does Anyone Else Feel a Little Uncomfortable About Joe Karam?

By Ben Kepes

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Disclaimer – This is in no way a discussion about the David Bain case and specifically his guilt or otherwise. That said I was a little uncomfortable to read this morning that Joe Karam, David Bain’s tireless supporter has received $330k in the past

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03/06/2009 Posted in Business, Economic Development, New Zealand, Society, Strategy 5 Comments

“Deleveraging” – A New Word for Economic Rape?

By Ben Kepes

For a long time I’ve been something of a lone voice (I’d like to think somewhat akin to the little boy in “The Emperor’s New Clothes”) crying foul about the economic development direction we seem to take in this country. Part of the reason I co-founded bizchat was because I

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02/06/2009 Posted in Uncategorized 3 Comments

Knocked the Bugger Off…

By Ben Kepes

(With apologies to the late Ed Hillary.) On Sunday I ran my first ever half marathon as part of the Christchurch SBS Marathon. Before then the longest I’d ever run was about 15 kilometres and that was a fairly casual affair. One of my workmates is a bit of an

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01/06/2009 Posted in Branding, New business, New Zealand, SocialMedia, Strategy Leave a comment

Another Quiver to the HB bow

By Ben Kepes

I’ve always had a huge amount of respect for the team over at HB media – this isn’t just because I’ve been involved with them in past and present projects – long before my work with Idealog magazine I commented on their innovative business model that takes the (arguably) dying

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Ben Kepes is an analyst, an entrepreneur, a commentator and a business adviser. His business interests include a diverse range of industries from manufacturing to property to technology. As a technology commentator he has a broad presence both in the traditional media and extensively online. Ben covers the convergance of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users. More on Ben

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