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New Tech, Legacy Business Model = Digital Media Crisis?
New Tech, Legacy Business Model = Digital Media Crisis?
By Nick Atkinson
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A Story About Eating Ice Cream and Nailing Marketing
A Story About Eating Ice Cream and Nailing Marketing
By Nick Atkinson
Activity
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WORLD RECORD!‼️ @jessicaahull becomes the first woman in history to break 5:20 in the 2000m. 5:19.70 is the world record* *Subject to the usual…
WORLD RECORD!‼️ @jessicaahull becomes the first woman in history to break 5:20 in the 2000m. 5:19.70 is the world record* *Subject to the usual…
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Some personal news – I have recently resigned from my role as Group General Manager - Delivery & Partnerships at Athletics Australia and will finish…
Some personal news – I have recently resigned from my role as Group General Manager - Delivery & Partnerships at Athletics Australia and will finish…
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Experience & Education
Licenses & Certifications
Publications
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Interview with Louder Online
Aaron Agius, Louder Online
Discussion on the changing face of SEO and the move towards optimisation for engagement.
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25 Ways to generate better online book sales
Futurebook
Article I wrote for Futurebook - the digital publishing blog for The Bookseller. This post received loads of tweets, has been re-purposed multiple times, translated into Spanish and Italian and brought me many new Linkedin connections and followers.
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3 important questions about digital that nobody is asking
Futurebook
First post I wrote for Futurebook, the Bookseller's digital blog. I believe it was the most retweeted article they've published.
Courses
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Psychology
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Web Design
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Projects
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Phantom Pyramid
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Cooked
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Cooked is a pioneering site that brings entire cookbooks online. A Spotify for recipes if you like. Launched in Australia in December 2013, the site has already seen exponential growth with international launches still to come in 2014.
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Australian Wine Companion
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Australian Wine Companion is a perfect example of what the future of reference / non-fiction could look like. The website turns the highly-influential and important annual book into a world-class content-based subscription portal. The website was rebuilt under my leadership in 2011 and goes from strength to strength receiving over 80,000 visits pcm at the time of writing.
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Where's Wally on Google Earth
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Winner of the 2010 Neilsen-Bookesller Retail Marketing Award, where's Wally on google Earth was a multi-channel campaign that combined a video on the homepage of YouTube, the front page of the Telegraph, Google Earth, the legendary Where's Wally? and Borders.co.uk to create what judges called 'the perfect example of a 21st century marketing campaign'.
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Borders.co.uk
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I was part of the eCommerce team that launched Borders.co.uk. My role involved all creative and supplier-participant marketing and promotional planning. Borders.co.uk sat on a database of over 1 million customers by the end of Yr. 1 and at it's peak received over 200,000 visits per month.
Other creators
Honors & Awards
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Nike Maxim 'The Consumer Decides'
Nike
Prestigious internal award won for leading the launch of Nike.com and NikeID in Australia and NZ.
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Best Consumer Website
The Futurebook Awards
Cooked.com wins arguably the most prestigious industry awards for publishing, taking the 'Best Consumer Website' award ahead of entries from some of the UK's largest publishers. Judge Shane Richmond said Cooked had ‘an inviting and modern design that truly does justice to the wealth of content available’. I headed up the project from conception through launch and to the present day.
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Best Launch 2014
Publishers Australia Excellence Awards
In a clean sweep of technology, magazine and book industry awards, Cooked takes its third award in as many weeks.
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Digital Innovator of the Year
Sitecore Experience Awards
In one of my proudest achievements, Hardie Grant wins the Digital innovator of the Year Award for Cooked.com.au (/com), a project I headed up through conception, development and launch.
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Speaker - Future of Digital Publishing, Melbourne & Sydney events
AIMIA
Featured speaker at AIMIA's industry-leading conference discussing The Future of Digital Publishing. My talk was entitled Content & Commerce: Ultimate BFFS.
Feedback:
"Congrats on your talk this morning. It was honestly a stand out with your enthusiasm, transparency and genuine examples of innovation."
"@HardieGrant Nick Atkinson that was punchy and informative GREAT content! You really know your stuff #FODPnsw @AIMIANational @CollectiveHub"
Roghan McKerlie…Featured speaker at AIMIA's industry-leading conference discussing The Future of Digital Publishing. My talk was entitled Content & Commerce: Ultimate BFFS.
Feedback:
"Congrats on your talk this morning. It was honestly a stand out with your enthusiasm, transparency and genuine examples of innovation."
"@HardieGrant Nick Atkinson that was punchy and informative GREAT content! You really know your stuff #FODPnsw @AIMIANational @CollectiveHub"
Roghan McKerlie @RoghanMcKerlie
Agree: "Trust is at the cornerstone of any successful commercial & content strategy"Nick Atkinson from @HardieGrant #FODPvic @AIMIANational -
Multi Channel Brand of the Year
Publishers Australia
Fending off tough competition from Mumbrella, Donnay Hay and Women's Weekly, Wine Companion wins arguably the most coveted award in its sector at the 2013 Publisher's Excellence awards.
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Most read blog post of 2012 on Futurebook
Futurebook - The Bookseller
My blog post - 25 ways to generate better online book sales - was the most read post in 2012 on Futurebook, the UKs leading digital publishing blog, provided by The Bookseller, achieving over 12,000 views.
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QED Award for Excellence
Publishers Innovation Awards
Standard of excellence achieved for enhanced digital publishing for Ian Thorpe, Cook for Your Life.
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Publishers Australia Excellence Awards - Best Mobile App
Publishers Australia
Runner up for Best Mobile App 2011, at the Publishers Australia awards, for Wine Regions of Victoria for Tourism Vic, beating off some incredibly stiff competition from Audi, Volvo, Gourmet Traveller, Ikea, to name a few...
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Retail Marketing Campaign of the year 2009 - Runner up
The Bookseller / Nielsen
Key member of the team, imagining and creating the digital component of the launch campaign for Watchmen which included a fantastic mix of a branded web store, email marketing, social media and the fan-targeted digital distribution of customised Watchmen artwork and exclusive content.
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Retail Marketing Campaign of the Year - Winner
Neilsen / TB
I created the concept for and executed (with a little help from my friends) the award-winning campaign 'Where's Wally on Google Earth'. The judges cited the campaign as being the 'perfect example of a 21st century marketing campaign'.
Languages
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French (intermediate)
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Recommendations received
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