By The Editor
There’s nothing that generates more discussion at the end of a year than a ‘best of’ list, so as 2011 winds down, take a look back at the top 10 most read stories on the VECCI Blog this year.
2011 – year in review
December 22, 2011
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Christmas cheer can lead to retail gloom, finds researcher
December 6, 2011By The Editor
It’s common to see stores and retailers decked out in various Christmas decorations or playing carols in their store at this time of year, but a UK researcher has found excessive Christmas cheer could actually drive stressed-out shoppers away.
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Graffiti: is it art or just a bunch of scribble? A business view
September 20, 2011By Michael Reardon
It fills railway corridors, accompanying us on our daily commute and it covers countless bus stops, fences and walls as mere vandalism – creating a sense of abandonment and urban decay.
However it also covers the laneways of inner Melbourne, serving as a significant attraction, generating tourism revenue and international publicity; and is seen by some as an artform vital to our cultural credibility as the ‘world’s most liveable city’.
Whatever one’s viewpoint (vandalism or street art?), few issues have as an immediate and polarising effect on the urban environment and our relationship with it than graffiti.
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Work and exercise – as simple as standing up on the job?
September 15, 2011By The Editor
With 45 per cent of all Australian workers in a job where they spend most of their time sitting, physical activity outside of work or during breaks is of great importance for a healthy body and mind.
However new figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show more than 60 per cent of all Australians spend little or no time exercising, and full-time workers were more likely to be inactive than part-time colleagues.
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Business tips – how to generate positive publicity
September 13, 2011By The Editor
Positive public relations is essential for building your business. Why not gain free publicity for your achievements or expertise through the media? If you don’t know where ― or how ― to begin, read on.
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Melbourne reclaims its most liveable city tag
August 30, 2011By The Editor
Melbourne can once again rightly claim to be the world’s most liveable city after we overtook Vancouver to go to number one on The Economist Intelligence Unit’s liveability ranking.
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Children be gone! Blog readers have their say
July 26, 2011By The Editor
Our recent story on whether businesses, especially restaurants and cafes, should have the right to ban children from their premises got a great response from our readers.
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Should businesses be allowed to ban children?
July 15, 2011By Andrew Lowcock
If you’re a regular diner at restaurants, you’ve probably encountered a crying, screaming or misbehaving child at least once, and wished they weren’t disrupting your meal. To counter this, some restaurants (and other businesses) are taking it into their own hands and banning young children from their premises.
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Is Melbourne ‘provincial’, or just parochial?
July 12, 2011By The Editor
A leaked internal Westpac document, revealed in The Age, describing Melbourne as a “provincial” community, has caused quite a stir, but we suspect is a slightly misworded attempt to describe Melbourne’s renowned parochialism.
In short, it is a storm in a teacup, and a classic example of the media magnifying a minor detail to become the story.
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Small business slow to take up social media
May 27, 2011By The Editor
A wide-ranging report of Australians’ use of social networking websites has found small businesses are lagging well behind the general population, with only 14 per cent of all small businesses utilising social media. So why is this so?
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