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What a hotel website should be

SA Hotel Trat, Thailand Online services for those who are travelling tend to be all about the supplier, or middle man, and not really for the person who will actually use the service. For 8 months now my family and I have been travelling from the UK back across the world to New Zealand. Every few days we have been looking for a new hotel. And the hotel sites , and the cheap room sites all have their flaws. So when we found the website for the SA Hotel in Trat Thailand we exclaimed loud and long how good it was. http://www.sahotel.in.th/ I'll warn you now it isn't pretty - but if like us you've looked at a lot of pretty hotel websites and still not really been able to make up your mind if it is the right place to stay I feel for you. The best online presences for hotels are invariably those run by people who own and live at their own properties, and who are doing something different. A case in point is Les Manguiers  http://www.mangokampot.com/  which again isn...

Leaving speech

After three years and six months at Lincoln University I am now officially unemployed and heading away on a gap year for grown ups with my family. I started at Lincoln University in the position of Online Services Manager in October 2009. In April 2012 I became the Applications group manager as well as the online services manager. A friend in the US said “a Mexican promotion – two jobs, one salary”, which it was but it was more than that as well. I became responsible for a team of six people who helped me and whom I hope I helped. It is them and the other people I worked with at Lincoln University that I really tried to express my thanks to in my leaving speech. I’m blogging my speech because my dad asked for a copy and several people were unable to attend. It starts using the Maori language and ends using the Tibetan language. ---------------- Te whare tipuna e tu nei Te University e takoto nei Tena korua Nga hau e wha Nga iwi e tau nei Tena koutou katoa Thank you...

Intranets 2013 Sydney

Wow - it's rolled around again. Intranets 2013 registrations are about to open and this year you can bring the intranet / digital workplace love into your personal life [which I'm sure you all do because you live and breathe intranets 24/7] via the Intranets2013 FaceBook page https://www.facebook.com/Intranets2013 15th - 17th of May in Sydney you'll be able to experience the best Intranet conference in Australia, Austral asia, the world - that I've ever been too. http://www.steptwo.com.au/conference This year Sam Marshall (Clearbox consulting) , Matthew Phillips (Intranetizen) and Kim Sbarcea are presenting. Looking forward to it.