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

Online Insights on FIVEaa Sunday May 13 2012

Steve Davis — Sun, 13 May 2012 10:13:30 +0000

This month on Online Insights we drive down memory lane in Adelaide in full technicolour, discover a resource to stop grey-haired people around you turning your hair grey, recoil at Vegemite’s woes and discover what brand you would be, given your personality. Life in Adelaide I have started a new habit. It is so cold [...]

ANZAC Day 2012: Remembering the fallen, scarred and damaged from all wars

Steve Davis — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:03:59 +0000

A simple post today to mark ANZAC Day, a day for paying tribute to the men and women from Australia and New Zealand who served in World War One. These days, many of us take the opportunity to use ANZAC Day to reflect deeply upon all of us who are, who have and who will [...]

Online Insights on FIVEaa Sunday April 1 2012

Steve Davis — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 10:04:26 +0000

This month on Online Insights we find a treasure chest of intelligent, Australian writing, take the federal survey on same sex marriage, look for love in social networks, review how necessary daylight saving time really is, and then look for local things we might like to do. Same Sex Marriage survey This weekend we have [...]

Spare Key: Your ticket to a home away from home

Steve Davis — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:34:26 +0000

Welcome to Spare Key Spare Key is a new service using the power of Facebook, Foursquare, Twitter and Google Maps, along with your social graph, to provide you with a home away from home, no matter where you are in the world. Entering the world of Spare Key membership is easy: Simply install the Spare [...]

A call to giggling: Middle-aged men unite

Steve Davis — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 13:59:13 +0000

Kelly Noble, editor of the fashion and events magazine, Glam Adelaide, stated in a blog last week that there is ‘nothing great about middle aged men giggling‘. For the record, it was a tongue-in-cheek post, I think, and she didn’t say they were not allowed to giggle, only that they probably shouldn’t because, one assumes, [...]

Online Insights on FIVEaa Sunday March 4 2012

Steve Davis — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 08:05:56 +0000

This month on Online Insights we shall see the light, then move from the old world to the ‘other world’ and come to rest in the inner world. Sounds mysterious but don’t fear, it is me and Sean Perry, you will not be spooked! Before you dive into the actual stories, I also encourage you [...]

The Guardian Three Little Pigs video reveals truth about Big Bad Media

Steve Davis — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 05:37:08 +0000

The Guardian’s two-minute commercial, Guardian open journalism: Three Little Pigs advert – video (view below), attempts to tell the story about how wonderful news coverage is in this age of social media. However, it actually reveals more ugly truth about the media today then was intended. I believe this commercial is the most convincing argument [...]

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 [...]