A new smart phone app for people experiencing domestic violence created by Komosion for Women NSW was launched Monday May 6 by NSW Minister for Family and Community Services and Minister for Women, Pru Goward.

Customer Journey Mapping is part of the omni-chanel approach that Komosion is leading the way in, and figuring out the communication touch-points of every student at the Australian Catholic University's campuses is a perfect example of where it can get really complicated, really quickly.

Each week B&T magazine Australia asks two Creative Directors from leading agencies to give their frank reviews of some of the recent advertising work in the public eye. Our own Craig Burtenshaw was let fly last week at ads for Odyssey House, the Melbourne Comedy Festival, the Coles "Down down" ads, as well as ones for Telstra and Pet Rescue.

It is a pleasure for us to announce that 100% of our web development team is 100% certified at the highest levels of PHP coding qualification.

Rocco Fazzari has been creating images for magazines and newspapers since he left art college more than 20 years ago, and is today recognised as one of Australia's best cartoonists. His latest endeavour is to animate his work using a homemade stylus and an iPad - he calls this "Espresso Video Animations". His YouTube channel featuring this work has had more than 367,000 unique views. In this exclusive video interview, Rocco tells Komosion why he has been drawn to digital.

PRESS RELEASE: Valspar’s Wattyl Paint has launched a new consumer-facing website for Australia, and a microsite in association with Nine Network’s The Block All Stars, both created and executed by strategic marketing agency Komosion. “We are certain our customers will be excited about the digital new tools that we have on offer on our sites," said Pattie Erps, National Sales and Marketing Manager. "We are looking forward to working with Komosion and building on this success.”

We're happy to announce two new arrivals in the Sydney office this month: Account Manager Charmaine Magrath and Business Analyst Rebecca Zabow. Charmaine was most recently employed at Responsys where she was Customer Success Manager for clients including Westfield, Vodafone, 3 Mobile, Bupa and News Digital Media. Rebecca previously worked with Deloitte on e-commerce solutions for Woolworths and Qantas and joins Komosion after most recently consulting to Electrolux Australia.

Here's another installment in our Digital Insights series, this time with the world renowned blogger, tweeter, and author of Tapworthy - Designing Great iPhone Apps, Josh Clark. We sat down with Josh and got some of his thoughts on content strategy, emerging technologies, and how to make the most of your digital presence. As well as what he sees coming to us in the near future.

February saw the successful roll-out to all standard-licence customers of the latest version of Komodo CMS: version 7. Our development team worked tirelessly and were able to upgrade all of our customers without any serious issues or interruption to services, plus our training team ran some very successful webinars to introduce the new features.

Last Wednesday night our MD John O'Neill and Account Director Dee Teddy were invited along to the Australian Surfing awards, incorporating the Hall of Fame. John is a member of the Surfing NSW board and a lifelong surfer himself, while Dee has just begun to learn at her local beach, doing surf classes every Sunday.

Horace Dediu is one of the world's leading economic analysts of Apple and its product and we filmed an exclusive interview with him during a recent visit to Australia. In this three-minute video, Horace talks about opportunities for Australian businesses, the evolving App ecosystem, and what the future of digital technology may hold.

Over the next few weeks we are rolling out Komodo CMS v7 and, as part of that, users will enjoy the benefit of a range of improvements. The first change users will see is a new-look login screen which will make it faster to connect to the system via social media logins. Here is a preview of the new administrator interface. Rollout to clients began this week.

Milk Crate Theatre works with people who have experienced homelessness and social marginalisation. It was lauded last year for Fearless, a powerful production at Sydney's Carriageworks which investigated portraits of loneliness. Komosion will partner, pro-bono, with Milk Crate Theatre to conduct a Think Tank to explore ways in which the group can further promote its productions and values. We will run a half-day workshop on March 6, 2013. If you are a marketing professional and would like to be involved, we would love to hear from you.

Coming out over the first half of 2013, we will be sharing interview content exclusive to Komosion from the digital industry's leading lights, including this man: Troy Brandt - one of the lead iOS developers at Flipboard. Flipboard is an app that is revolutionizing the way we consume content while mobile. Komosion talked to Troy during a recent visit from Palo Alto to Sydney about the shape of the future. This is the first interview in our new Digital Insights series.