NetSafe is offering cybersafety professionals from around the world the opportunity to work at NetSafe through a secondment programme.

Students (or anyone) moving to a new city after New Year?
Now is the time that many people are looking for rental accommodation to take up for 2012 whether it be for studying at Uni or other reasons.  We have noticed a spate of rental accommodation scams lately where a real bargain [...]

A special guest blog from Jon Duffy, Head of Trust and Safety at Trade Me and NetSafe Board Member.

Trade Me is a great place to find deals on all sorts of odds and ends. I myself recently found a genuine 1980s red and white cricket vest for a staggeringly low $12.00. I am now ready [...]

A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss
Or – there is no such thing as a free lunch.
We are all hooked into social networking/media in some way or another (or I doubt you’d be reading this!). We know the advantages it brings us, lots of positives or we wouldn’t bother would we?
What happens when it all [...]

Sad as it may be, there are those in all our communities who will take advantage of others for personal gain. It is disturbing to look at the amount of personal information very well meaning people are posting online in response to the CHCH earthquake. Some sites are offering temporary accommodation and people [...]

ComScore today released their figures for the year that was 2010. Its like a compendium of figures from other releases that they have put out through the year, and they have added a few predictions for 2011. I’m a sucker for predictions…apart from the tarot card ones.
There are a few interesting figures in there, like [...]

You know the old adage “use it or lose it”.  The thought struck me the other day quite personally because I was thinking about our new accounting system which we use now at NetSafe, it’s put together very nicely and makes a lot of the general accounting processes easy to do and maintain., I personally [...]

Years ago I was a counsellor in an agency which worked with sexual abuse survivors and rape victims. The vast majority of our work was with women and girls though we also had a few male clients (and a male counsellor). Abuse, bullying, harassment is not gender specific however recently I have a sense of [...]

Poor Winston Reid, he doesn’t know what to do. By the time he got back on the bus after the All White’s draw with Slovakia he had “over 100 messages and 40 missed calls. I went onto Facebook and that was horrible as well. It was swamped. Where do I start? If I start answering [...]

Lets face it, we are all time poor these days.  I have often wondered if technology enhances our time poor lives or improves on it.  I think the answer is both so to speak and it can be self moderated.
I recently read an article in “The Essential Guide to Leadership”  published by Harvard Business Review, [...]