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CX Blog: the rules and regulations
22 August 2012 Actually there are not many rules here, and those that exist are at the sole discretion of the mogul in charge. You can’t defame anyone, which is why sometimes before approval a line is deleted or a name is redacted. You can’t hide behind anonymity to flame anyone. You CAN be anonymous,…
Read MoreUnfair dismissal – the fix is in
20 August 2012 Grace Collier is an industrial relations consultant who spends a fair slab of time in unfair dismissal conciliation. This is where someone sacked takes the matter to Fair Work Australia. She wrote in the Australian Financial Review that in the first three months of this year, 3,574 sacked staff took action and…
Read MoreTop BLOGS: What YOU read HERE!
Let’s see, what consumes, burns within, and DEFINES the CX-ter? Oh yeah – that’s YOU, a CXter! Title Views Radiohead Disaster – site report 4,357 Home page / Archives 3,481 Radiohead Roof Failure: More Info 1,602 TOD fees 1,334 Fat Harry – hopes of quiet funeral dashed 670 Hip Hop Cancellations 657 Unfriendly Audio Visual Supplier advisory 593 Cheap stage?…
Read MoreThe 44 gallon drum in the back of the F350
17 August 2012 Two things stopped the sale of petrol in the mid 1970’s. The Oil Crisis, and Wildcat Strikes. Both are foreign concepts in these easy days, but I remember petrol rationing. We had a car with an even last number, and the Ford F350 gig truck truck had the odd number. A Cleveland…
Read MoreFailure is when you don’t try
(By Julius) 16 August 2012 Just this morning as the winter cold ebbed and spring glanced my way, I pondered the most traumatic business week of my life, 21 months ago. It was the week I decided to shut Julius Events College, and it happened in November 2010. What cascaded from that has shaped me.…
Read MoreSmart phones – the travel war
15 August 2012 Google just bought Frommer’s, the travel book people. As you point your smart phone at the DMX receiver or dial up console settings on your tablet, think about how the travel gig will change just as soon as Google and Apple are ready. Apple have a slew of patents in the pipeline…
Read MoreWorld Music Expedition!
Looking for something new and exciting? Have a sense of adventure? Interested in the music of other cultures? Want to gain new sound recording skills? Greg Simmons has room for a few more people on his eighth ‘guerrilla ethnomusicology’ recording expedition through Asia and the Himalaya. Scheduled from the 17th of December 2012 to the…
Read MoreThe Fire Next Time
Wired magazine is on our best 5 list here at CX, and a recent article by Ben Paynter resonated. He points out that when the space shuttle Challenger burned up on reentry, the problem had been known for 79 previous missions. But it had not come together and created a disaster, so the rocket nerds…
Read MoreStaging Connections defend TOD fees
This is from Tony Chamberlain, Managing Director at Staging Connections Group Limited in response to the Technician On Duty debate that has been running in CX Magazine (August) and here at cxmagblog. Staging Connections provides a Technician On Duty style service (Venue Technical Representative – VTR) to a venue when requested to do so by…
Read MoreTOD fees – inhouse AV company detail a fair approach
As a supplier with the largest number of in house venues in Canberra, we could not agree more that many in house suppliers practices in regards to TOD fees are far from what we would deem fair. We on the other hand have a VERY different approach. If an outside provider is coming into any…
Read MoreTOD fees
Russell Bennett from Microhire QLD sends this: Your AV Industry Needs You!!! · Imagine not being able to use your favoured and trusted AV company when doing events! · Imagine now , not having the right to choice your AV supplier on its merits – Price, Value or professionalism! · Imagine in a few years’…
Read MoreTraining Package Validation Workshops
A reminder that draft units, qualifications and skill sets for the review of CUE03 Entertainment Training Package are all available in the IBSA Feedback Hub for viewing and comment. Feedback has been extended to 8 August. Registrations for validation workshops will close 3 days prior to the workshop. This will be the final opportunity to…
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