DialogCRM https://dialogcrm.com/ Take your online marketing to the next level Sun, 08 Mar 2026 20:41:05 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://dialogcrm.com/cms/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/cropped-site-dialog-id-32x32.png DialogCRM https://dialogcrm.com/ 32 32 82396083 Changing the world is more like caregiving than like war https://dialogcrm.com/blog/2026/03/changing-the-world-is-more-like-caregiving-than-like-war/ Sun, 08 Mar 2026 20:41:05 +0000 https://dialogcrm.com/?p=13495 Just recently Rebecca Solnit gave an interview to the NYT where she stated that “changing the world is more like caregiving than like war”. Here is that video clip. From the intro on YouTube. “Solnit has written a new book, “The Beginning Comes After the End,” a thematic sequel to her classic “Hope in the […]

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]]> 13495 Searching for Colonel Kurtz https://dialogcrm.com/blog/2026/03/searching-for-colonel-kurtz/ Sun, 08 Mar 2026 06:43:56 +0000 https://www.dialogcrm.com/?p=11852 Back in 2018 I was shocked when Anthony Bourdain died in mid flight as it were. I started writing this 7 years ago but never pushed publish. Hearing about his death was a shock because he seemed so much larger than life and the TV personality was generally resilient although somewhat troubled. Two Three years […]

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]]> 11852 Community Building in Hampden https://dialogcrm.com/blog/2025/11/community-building-in-hampden/ Wed, 26 Nov 2025 23:46:04 +0000 https://dialogcrm.com/?p=13463 Back in October 2021 I moved from Auckland to North Otago for family reasons. It was literally the first week that we could travel but I still needed a permission slip (because of Covid controls) to be inspected by police upon the exit from Auckland. For the last 2 years I’ve been busy on community […]

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]]> 13463 Doublespeak and double standards on the RSB. https://dialogcrm.com/blog/2025/07/doublespeak-and-double-standards-on-the-rsb/ Sat, 12 Jul 2025 10:46:18 +0000 https://dialogcrm.com/?p=13422 Doublespeak is alive and well in Aotearoa NZ in 2025 and so are double standards. It is deeply ironic and dishonest to claim that your project is an attempt to setup principles that would result in better design of laws while at the same time trashing the actual lawmaking process. Despite what it claims – […]

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]]> 13422 Electrify Queenstown – The Follow Up https://dialogcrm.com/blog/2025/06/electrify-queenstown-the-follow-up/ Fri, 13 Jun 2025 08:19:07 +0000 https://dialogcrm.com/?p=13404 A couple of weeks ago I was over in Queenstown for the Electrify Queenstown conference. Here are some of my notes. “Electrify Queenstown is a three-day event that brings together community, business, government, and industry to accelerate the transition to a low-emissions, electrified future. Our 2025 event was our biggest yet—with booked out speaker sessions, […]

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]]> 13404 Flaunt the Imperfections AI Can’t Touch This https://dialogcrm.com/blog/2024/06/flaunt-the-imperfections-ai-cant-touch-this/ Sun, 16 Jun 2024 23:55:51 +0000 https://dialogcrm.com/?p=13227 Back in the 80’s one of my flatmates worked for a high end audio store. He would sell Linn turntables and similar for what seemed like an absolute fortune. The payoff for our house was that we got to try out some great speaker / amplifier combinations of all things audio. In those stores the […]

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]]> 13227 Ten Good Reasons for Climate Optimism https://dialogcrm.com/blog/2024/05/ten-good-reasons-for-climate-optimism/ Wed, 15 May 2024 07:53:23 +0000 https://dialogcrm.com/?p=13121 It seems like the mainstream media stories are missing most of the good news about solar, wind and batteries ( renewables) dramatically improving the electricity generation future for NZ and many other countries. Because I am working on some futures type projects I often spot stories in the wild but forget where they come from. […]

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]]> 13121 How to Win the Product Race https://dialogcrm.com/blog/2024/05/how-to-win-the-product-race/ Tue, 14 May 2024 10:12:39 +0000 https://dialogcrm.com/?p=13098 Back in the 90’s early 2000’s I found myself at the BHP training centre in Victoria. I was there as part of an in house training thing for some consulting group that I worked at for a while. The point is – there was a swimming pool and the NZ team cleaned up. That shouldn’t […]

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]]> 13098 SWB = Solar, Wind and Battery Abundance https://dialogcrm.com/blog/2024/02/swb-solar-wind-and-battery-abundance/ Mon, 19 Feb 2024 07:43:50 +0000 https://dialogcrm.com/?p=13053 From RethinkX ““We are on the cusp of the fastest, deepest, most profound disruption of the energy sector in over a century. Like most disruptions, this one is being driven by the convergence of several key technologies whose costs and capabilities have been improving on consistent and predictable trajectories – namely, solar photovoltaic power, wind […]

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]]> 13053 The Death of the NZ Dairy Sector https://dialogcrm.com/blog/2024/01/the-death-of-the-nz-dairy-sector/ Sat, 20 Jan 2024 06:54:58 +0000 https://dialogcrm.com/?p=13007 As Mark Twain said ” rumours of my death are greatly exaggerated”. The Dairy sector is far from dead but sleepwalking towards destruction might be a better metaphor. As shocking as it sounds the impending death of the NZ Dairy sector should be taken seriously. The NZ Dairy sector is extraordinarily important to NZ’s export […]

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