Steve Davis | Marketing and Communication Consultant | Adelaide, South Australia

Online Insights on FIVEaa Sunday February 5 2012

Steve Davis — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:39:57 +0000

This month on Online Insights we explore mind control tricks from the underbelly of marketing, tease out some of Adelaide’s interesting bloggers, get a grip on British English and poke some fun at the lack lustre food photos shared in Social Media. 5 Creepy Forms of Mind Control You’re Exposed to Daily As many of [...]

Clean Up Australia from the inside: Advance Australia Dry

Steve Davis — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:45:24 +0000

Happy Australia Day! Today I will be drinking a toast to Australia with its rich and complex history at the cricket test match at Adelaide Oval. And then I will stop. Stop drinking that is. As of January 27, I am embarking on a dry zone until the end of February. I have dubbed this [...]

Online Insights on FIVEaa Sunday January 1 2012

Steve Davis — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 06:57:04 +0000

Welcome to 2012 and the first edition of Online Insights for another year. This month we take a different approach to resolutions involving food, give ourselves some tricks for spelling better, correct some of the common myths we all believe and finish with a way to play book publisher. What’s more, most of tonight’s links [...]

Online Insights on FIVEaa Sunday December 4 2011

Steve Davis — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 09:48:28 +0000

With xmas about 20 sleeps away a couple of sites this month will focus on that event on how to navigate work parties and how single people can treat themselves to festive feasts, we’ll discover some quick house cleaning tips (always useful this time of year) and we finish with some thrilling rides. Andersons Law [...]

Online Insights on FIVEaa Sunday November 6 2011

Steve Davis — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 09:09:38 +0000

This month we get real about food, about money, about music and about publishing a book. What does a healthy person eat? There are many theories and diets around the best food for us. There are also many examples of healthcare professionals who abuse their bodies worse than their patients do. But a young, Darwin-based [...]

The value of friendship: 83 minutes that might have saved my life

Steve Davis — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:06:07 +0000

I have long been an 80-hour-a-week kinda guy. I have been lucky enough to love my work with all my heart whether it was radio, journalism or, now, marketing. If you analysed my ‘weekends’ for the last 15 years, I think you would struggle to find more than 15 days of purely social time. This [...]

A memo to the ANZ bank

Steve Davis — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 22:23:29 +0000

It must be hard running a banking organisation but at least my client base, small business owners, can learn from this. Imagine running the ANZ. You are at the helm of a large, money-making empire in a country with only a handful of competitors to share spoils between but you know you have to ‘be [...]

Every Generation needs every generation

Steve Davis — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 23:22:19 +0000

Later today I am performing the role of MC for an Every Generation event held by Adelaide City Council. The event will focus around the screening of Babies, a documentary about the first year of life of four babies on four different continents. As part of my plan to expand the breadth of material archived [...]

Online Insights on FIVEaa Sunday October 2 2011

Steve Davis — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 08:08:19 +0000

This month we explore what is meant by Australian Women’s Weekly when it claims that Frugality is the new Black, experience the fun side of HTML5 (who would have guessed), and a small video of magic and high tech blended into one. Enjoy. Frugality is the New Black My wife told me the Australian Women’s [...]

Online Insights on FIVEaa Sunday September 4 2011

Steve Davis — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 09:27:21 +0000

This month we look at the importance of sleep for weight loss, of how to get our minds straight, take a global glimpse at Fathers Day and finish off with a handy way to use Lego. Sleep adds weight AND makes you fatter After reading this article, I have worked harder and harder at getting [...]