On the Pod with Mike Vallender
Posted on 22. Dec, 2004 by Cameron in Podcast
Tune in and listen to one of our longer interview sessions that we recorded last weekend (and our sixth “On the Pod” session) with Mike Vallender.
Mike is currently Managing Director of successful CSIRO spin out Windlab Systems Pty Ltd, now a private company creating an international reputation as a commercial leader in wind energy services.
Mike also serves as Chairperson for Australian Intranets Pty Ltd, Effectual.biz Pty Ltd and Vallender.Com Pty Ltd.
In December 1999, as Managing Director of HotCopper Australia Limited, Mike achieved a successful Initial Public Offering on the Australian Stock Exchange returning up to 600% for its original seed investors. He then led the public company through an on market merger with Bourse Data Limited (three weeks later!!!), a leading sharemarket information services company, and was appointed as its CEO.
Bourse Data Hotcopper was then sold to St. George Bank late in 2001, and Mike was appointed as the CEO of the newly aquired division.
Mike’s other credits include the establishment of the wholesale services division at Australia’s then largest ISP, OzEmail, where he was Cameron’s manager for a year.
On the Pod with Mitch Denny
Posted on 22. Dec, 2004 by Cameron in Podcast
Trying to get through the back-log of “On the Pod” sessions we have recorded over the past week means that i wil be posting up two “On the Pod” interviews today…one short ambush session and one longer interview.
The ambush show we are putting up is a quick chat with Mitch Denny from Canberra. Mitch is a .Net MVP and works as a Senior Consultant for Readify who are “Australia’s foremost .Net Trainers & Consultants “…well..thats what their web site says and who are we to argue with a website??
Mitch is great guy who not only is a blogger, but is really getting into the Wiki thing as well. Check out his two Wiki’s, Wiki Dot Not Gartner Dot Com and Don’t Panic, which has a growing list of WiFi and power point (latop power not the presentation tool) friendly locations around Australia amongst other things.
On the Pod with Angus Logan
Posted on 21. Dec, 2004 by Cameron in Podcast
The podcasts just keep on coming this week…
The short “ambush” podcasts are quite fun (and easy to do) so Cameron and I have been doing a few of them. We don’t want to overburden you guys with having to listen to us too much (yeah yeah…i know bandwidth ain’t cheap in Australia and a lot of other countries), but we are having an absolute blast doing the “G’day World” podcasts and love all the feedback we have been getting. So for the moment…you will just have to put up with us posting material in a pretty steady stream…well…it might slow down over xmas but it isn’t looking like it. 
In this episode of “On the Pod” we ambush and have a chat with our mate Angus Logan. Angus is a Microsoft Content Management Server / SharePoint Technologies developer and a resident of Brisbane (or that little area near Brisbane we like to call Brisvegas actually). Brisbane is the capital of the sunny northern Australian state of Queensland, where as the TV ad used to try and convince us…”its beautiful one day. . .perfect the next “.
Listen in as Angus puts us on pause (hmmm) and talks about the “The seven habits of successful retards” amongst other things.
<shh>it looks like we may have a special guest on very very soon…thanx Buzz</shh>
On the Pod with Eric Rice
Posted on 20. Dec, 2004 by Cameron in Podcast
Another short “On the Pod”, and in this one Eric Rice gives us the low down on what happens when you serach for his name with the new Google Select tool…ouch…