Category Archives: Blogging

02/08/2009 Posted in Blogging, New Zealand Leave a comment

Wordcamp Wellington…

By Ben Kepes

This coming weekend sees Wellington hosting the New Zealand round of WordCamp. WordCamp is a conference that focuses on the intricacies of WordPress – one of the most popular blogging platforms on the web. In something of a coup, admittedly appreciated mainly among those breathing the rarefied air of blogging,

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18/11/2008 Posted in Blogging, Strategy 3 Comments

Old Media – Don’t Be So Freaking Backwards

By Ben Kepes

Old media just doesn’t get it – in the attempt to clutch on to what is essentially a sunset industry, they’ll try every trick on earth to lure reader to their sites. The partial content RSS feed is just one example of this – a feed that purports to be

24/09/2008 Posted in Blogging, Business, New Zealand Leave a comment

New Media for Old Media – Congrats to RWW!

By Ben Kepes

Big ups to ReadWriteWeb who along with GigaOm and VentureBeat are contributing to the New York Times‘ technology section. It’s a great win for a New Zealand blog (well OK of the RWW writers, only Richard (and on the odd occasion that I contribute to RWW myself)) hail from New

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20/09/2008 Posted in Blogging, IT, SaaS, The Cloud 2 Comments

CloudAve weekly summary

By Ben Kepes

The end of our first week! CloudAve launched on Monday after lots of behind the scenes work by people all over the place – we’re stoked to be here (or more correctly there) and hope you’ll join us for the ride. As you’ll see below it’s been a busy week

11/09/2008 Posted in Blogging, PaaS, SaaS, Web x.0 8 Comments

A new day, a new gig

By Ben Kepes

It’s a little bit later than expected but at last I’m happy to announce the creation of  CloudAve. Along with a great team of writers and researchers, Zoli Erdos as editor in chief and myself as editor will be creating what we hope will become the pre-eminent location for cloud computing

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07/09/2008 Posted in Blogging, Business, IT, Strategy 2 Comments

Embargoes and blogging

By Ben Kepes

Marshall had this interesting post looking at Embargoes and how they affect tech bloggers. Some recent event made me wonder about this. I’ve had a few contacts lately about press release type work. There have been two distinct styles of contact; The "we so don’t trust you" approach Recently I

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08/08/2008 Posted in Blogging, SaaS, Web x.0 Leave a comment

Office 2.0 coming soon!

By Ben Kepes

The third annual Office 2.0 conference will be hitting San Francisco by storm at the start of September. Going by reports about previous conferences it’s one not to miss (especially since registrants get a cool ultra portable as part of their conference fee). The presenter list is yet to be

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26/07/2008 Posted in Blogging 4 Comments

Ben grovels…

By Ben Kepes

Hello everyone. 48 hours ago I installed a new comment moderation plugin that promised to provide better community rating and ranking. Unfortunately what it did provide was a mail bomb to recent commenters. I feel really bad about it – I’d like to thing that Diversity is anything BUT spammy

14/07/2008 Posted in Blogging 4 Comments

Ben makes it onto RWW

By Ben Kepes

In a shameless piece of self-promotion I’m stoked to say that a post of mine was published on one of the most prestigious worldwide blogs ReadWriteWeb today. I posted about GroupSwim, a really cool SaaS collaboration offering. Right – end of self-promotion, back to work.

02/07/2008 Posted in Blogging, Business, New business, Strategy Leave a comment

PR and bloggers

By Ben Kepes

Recently I took part in a survey that canvassed Asia Pacific based bloggers on their thoughts and view towards PR. The full survey result can be seen here but some key findings were; 84% of bloggers respondents welcome contact from PR people and businesses. Electronic communication is king for APAC

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The Author

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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