Travel And Work Overseas. Remote working for the perpetual traveler.

Well I left Byron Bay on January 15th 2009 for what I expected to be 5-6 week trip across Asia working with our youth venture capital fund www.YSEI.org and this year’s 10 fellows. I started out in Malaysia and have been working with projects in Thailand (way up north near the Laos border), Sarawak and the Philippines (north and south).

5 weeks has turned into 5 months and I’m now in the Southern Philippines, on a small island, in the middle of a big typhoon with no power and a flood roaring past the front door. I’ve got two broken ribs from a little surfing mishap on a big wave but otherwise in one piece and rolling. These things happen.

PRESS RELEASE: 16th January 09:

In the urban regions of Manila’s metropolis, five young Filipinos have built the country’s first mobile, self-contained, wireless telecentre. The students are all graduates of the Philippines 1st telecenter, GLOW, which launched in 2000. They have designed a new and innovative approach of delivering ICT learning combined with a sustainable business model, to communities that typically have no access to the internet and IT training services.

For the latest Philippine news stories and videos, visit GMANews.TV

There’s no two ways about it - SEO is hot again. In the last 6 weeks, SEOmoz has received a higher than normal volume of requests for consulting. Alongside that, we’ve been getting calls from venture capital firms out of the blue - seven to date - asking either about investments they’re considering in the SEO sphere (and requesting insight) or literally asking whether SEOmoz would like to take more capital to grow (post about that coming soon).

New site in our folio BoracayBeachRealEstate.com.

Naturally being a site about buying real estate in Boracay

Boracay is fast becoming a world renown resort destination island, and with the famous White Beach being ranked in the top 10 beaches in the world for the last 15 years, the island is receiving more and more local and international tourists from every part of the globe every year.

As well as the long standing 4 and 5 star resorts plus with the recent addition of the Internationally accredited Shangri-La Hotel, Boracay is set to have Marriot International hotel by 2010, plus the Sheridan and talk of other famous branded hotels, all adding to the investment of the island and the Philippines.

For the last 8 years, Study in Australia (StudyinAustralia.com) has been the premium name for education sites in Australia. It has enjoyed front page rankings the whole period and continues to grow year after year being a magnet for International Students wishing to study in Australia. Well we’re now doing the same with StudyinNewZealand.com - our easy to remember, top level NZ domain.

We are not only showcasing the exceptional quality and high standards of the New Zealand Education sector, and promoting the many lifestyle benefits to overseas students of an education in New Zealand we’re also going to go nuts on adventure travel whilst we’re over there at the official launch in January 2009

SEO Dark Lord - 94%

Are you an SEO Expert?

OK I took the SEOmoz SEO Expert Quizz tonight and did pretty well with a wopping 94%. I’m not sure if that qualifies me as an expert but I was pretty happy with the result. The thing I’ve found after over 9 years of working in SEO is that it’s about actually following the fundamental rules of optimisation in order to get your sites and your clients ranked well. The SEOmoz Quiz is designed to test your mettle with 75 action-packed questions covering all corners of the SEO universe from beginner knowledge, to sneaky tricks only true Dark Lords of the SERPs will know. I did this test in about 20 minutes and promise I didn’t cheat.

We were out surfing last week and the little bro was on the esky lid (boogy board) with his legs dangling (and I do mean dangling as he’s 6 foot 4.).

We’ve headed into shore and started walking back to the car when we saw a bunch of people at the end of the beach (Cosy Corner, Byron Bay).

There was Ben, a mate of ours, with a huge shark bite out of his board. See the whole Byron Bay Sharks story here.

The FearBeneath.com had this to say ……. “BYRON BAY, AUSTRALIA

Well we’ve been having a ball whitewater rafting in the Philippines last week. Frankly it was a blast. We rode a grade 4 rapid in Mindanao. Southern Philppines just after a huge storm.

Whitewater rapids are rated on a scale of one through six, indicating the difficulty of each rapid at “normal” water level. The scale is a subjective one. While rapids are individually classed, rivers are given an overall classification that takes the whole stretch of river into account. As an example, the wilderness section of the Cagayan de Oro River has lots of Class IV rapids, but the overall classification is Class III and III+, indicating that a rafter with strong Class III skills would find the challenges OK. We went with the top crew from Rafting Cagayan De Oro (www.RaftingCDO.com)

Australian Financial Review - 28/07/08: We got interviewed  by the AFR about ‘Recruitment 2.0 - Universities weave a high-tech web‘

Read about how universities and colleges are increasingly moving towards Web 2.0 technologies and tools to engage with students using podcasts, blogs, virtual tours and social networking sites. Read story

“There’s been a total change in the way that students learn about study opportunities which requires a revolutionary shift in the way colleges and universities communicate with prospective students. Many people in the education industry are calling this the era of Recruiting 2.0 said Simon Healy, Managing Director of OutsourcingTo.uS“

Australian Outsourcing Firm PageOneRankings.com.au has re-launched Australia’s premier study abroad site for international students wanting to study in Australia.

Appropriately called StudyinAustralia.com, the site is the premium name for education institutions in Australia, and a magnet for International Students wishing to study here.

PageOneRankings.com.au Managing Director Simon Healy said “We are dedicated to showcasing the exceptional quality and high standards of the Australian Education sector, promoting the many lifestyle benefits to overseas students of an education in Australia and fundamentally connecting students with Australian Institutions.