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May 22, 2012

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Buzzy Bee goes international – and interactive

Well-loved Kiwi toy Buzzy Bee is soon to be brought to screens around the world, while ushering in a new concept in children’s interactive entertainment at the same time. Local entertainment company Lion Rock Ventures has just signed a co-production deal with Malaysian production company Lemon Sky Animation to produce 52 seven-minute TV episodes featuring the iconic character.

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Let’s get competitive: nutting out the future of economic development

New Zealand needs a few lessons in competitiveness, if you put stock in the World Economic Forum’s opinion, and November will see delegates from more than 40 countries descend on Auckland to build alliances, explore new models and envision what’s next in economic development. It’s all part of the annual global conference of The Competitiveness Institute, featuring a lineup of tours, presentations and workshops on the latest ideas on competitiveness.

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Weightless exports to bring digital dollars to our shores

The main message from the Rutherford Innovation Showcase Digital Content Forum last week was that some weightless exports have a fair bit of profit margin attached. The Wellington event also heard that apparently we (the royal ‘we’ as in New Zealanders) are pretty good at creating some of this digital content.

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Trading cards + GrabOne makes for Facebook fan gold

Trading cards are getting the Web 2.0 treatment in GrabOne’s first Facebook app, featuring 30 collectable cards emblazoned with the brand’s aqua fan-created mascot, Gimme. Developed in collaboration with digital agency GladEye, Gimme5 players use points to ‘buy’ or ‘grab’ packs of virtual cards which can be exchanged, sold or traded online and be in to win a variety of prizes.

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OldSchool/New School: A design history of New Zealand

From pop-up toasters to peerless film production, an exhibition featuring all aspects of Kiwi design is hitting Wellington later this month.  The exhibition OldSchool/New School, an art and design history of New Zealand, will be on display in the Great Hall of the Museum Building from September 29, celebrating everything from industrial design to fashion and the high-tech properties in communication design.

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Face it, people muck up

There are some areas in a business where relying entirely on people is not a good idea. Take those dozens of little daily processes that have to be done, but are boring, repetitive and time-consuming. And that, writes Cameron Hallmark, is the beauty of good BPM (and we don’t mean beats per minute).

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