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At Social Ocean we understand what it means to work with a small team. We have experience in being the "one man band" and know most circumstances like this are stressful. Social Ocean can assist with:
- short or long term projects needing guidance or hands-on assistance to coordinate nearing deadline needs;
- provide training to your staff in coordinating corporate meetings;
- formalising administ

rative procedures based on your requirements for ongoing staff management of your events;
- kick-start a social media presence for your business, event or specific promotion;
- customised social media framework for staff to follow;
- an extra set of hands to run or assist your event or for time-consuming administrative tasks to get the job done;
- PRIVATE SERVICES available by inquiry e.g. party planning, sourcing of décor, invitations, catering and more. If we can't help you - we'll help you find the person who can!

28/01/2025

In November 2017, at The Belvedere Hotel in Woody Point, I was enjoying Christmas drinks with two mates that I'd met whilst attending at a local networking group and our Chamber of Commerce earlier in the year.

Leanne Blaney and I were both in our first year of running businesses full-time, and had been looking for a business group that offered a different type of education.

As newbies in business, we had a sneaking suspicion that we didn't know anything about running our businesses! We were constantly asking others at networking if they knew of other events that shared information for us to learn about the "how to" side of business.

With an end of year celebratory drink, we decided to set up the solution we'd been looking for. And the first Ocean Network event was held on Tuesday 13th February.

For me - not much has changed in that I still feel I don't know how to run my business! The difference is that I have been motivated, inspired, educated, de-stressed, gained new friends, started collaborations, shared the highs and lows of running a business and laughed a LOT in the last seven years of the Ocean Network.

Supported by The Bel from the very beginning, we're about to start our eighth year of twice monthly mornings with business owners from the City of Moreton Bay and Brisbane.

And I'm looking forward to enjoying my morning coffees out with some humans who are the very best in business!

Learn more or join the dedicated Facebook group for the Ocean Network here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theOceanNetwork

Special thanks for all your support Brad, Chris, Mitch & Andy from

23/01/2025

Today is International Education Day 👩‍🎓🧑‍🎓👨‍🎓 and we'd love to give a shout out to all our education and educator friends, of which there are soooo many!

Working with state schools around Moreton Bay and Brisbane City always bring project highlights, fun and lots of learning.

Fun fact about Kirsty, is that before she worked full-time in Rugby League, she worked in a local high school as the Library Tech/TA 📚📖📔 That job also included stints in all other Teacher Aide rolls including the Science Lab Technician 🧪⚗️🔬 and is how she ended up working in Rugby League, and lead to her becoming a Rugby League Coach!

These days, we're more about working on specialty signage projects and large format print campaigns for schools instead. Here's some of our special moments working with our education mates over the last eight or so years....

22/01/2025

It's so damn hot today! So we're going to turn on the A/C and check in on our client's TikTok accounts to see what damage US algorithms are doing today.

Don't bother calling us. We'll be super busy.

Watching 74 Gossip Gowns videos, some chick waffling on about not needing a massage, our favourite fashion brands and watching Christian Hull watch other people do weird sh*t and laugh at his laugh.

We're busy.

20/01/2025

Happy New Year and P.S. up yours! 🎆🎇

This is what it always feels like we get at the beginning of the year, from our ever evolving social media platforms.

The biggest change affecting most of our immediate connections is the Instagram post size change 📲😝

We aren't too sure why everyone is cracking up though 😳 yes we said that! We've been talking about this for a LOOOOOOOONNNGG time and have transferred several clients' social media designs across to this size many moons ago. Like maybe as many moons as two years worth!

When this new size came online all those moons ago, we discussed the pros and cons of the change to your presentation. The major positive out of this change, is that your images have more hang time on screen for your scrolling fans. You can fit more image, in your image!

🗒 That equals fitting more text - or better yet - more nicely spaced text onto a design with text. Yay for the reader, and the designer!

💡 Now for all our Canva Queens out there, this change will be hardly a challenge at all. Simply go into all your batched designs, go to the RESIZE button and copy and resize to the Instagram Post and continue on with life as it was (if you haven't already).

🖥 If you don't use Canva, the new design size is 1080px x 1350px. Change whatever kind of art board you have now to this and continue as you were.

Once you've got all of this under control and you've gotten used to yet another social media change you hadn't noticed rolling out (for the last couple of years), you'll be fine and the new year really will return to being happy one!

#2025

31/12/2024

The best way to remember a hectic year is to review the photo collection.

It's hard to believe so many projects, events, clients, conversations and frivolity could have been packed into just one year.

We tried to take the one photo per month challenge. But 2024 has been huge and so that was decidedly a stupid challenge for us.

In an effort to try to keep it down and not posting a thousand image photo album to get bored of, here's some of our favourite moments from across the year.....

Travel has definitely been an overarching theme for our team and closest collaborators because it's jam-packed with different destinations around the country.

Until next year, stay safe out there. Happy New Year to all those near and dear and who support us and to those we support!

25/12/2024

May today's festivities fill your belly, fill you with love, laughter and joy!

Merry Christmas to you and yours.

🎄 From the house of ham aka Social Ocean.

06/12/2024

What an epic day to end our week on! A day of travelling from North Lakes to Jamboree Heights to St Lucia to Albion to Kedron and home to Moreton Bay.

The power team of Pete, Shirlee, Kylie & Kirsty has seen hours of content captured on film to showcase first class renovations around Brisbane.

We've styled, cleaned, snacked & sweated across the big city with so many wonderful recent projects to present to public.

Epic!

05/12/2024

Ladies Who Long Lunch International Women's Day Event tickets are LIVE and available with EARLY BIRD TICKETS!!!

With a quarter of tickets already booked in the first month of sale, be sure to grab yours and be confident you've got your seat.

Every Ladies Who Long Lunch International Women's Day event has sold out before ticket sales close. Be sure you don't miss out on the stellar line-up of Empowerment Panelists or celebrating International Women's Day with a spectacular event.

Tickets here 👉https://events.humanitix.com/international-womens-day-long-lunch-2025

WHERE: The Marquee, Victoria Park Complex at Herston.
WHEN: Friday 7th March 2025
TIME: 12:00pm-3:30pm

29/11/2024

Today is the final Ocean Network of 2024 and we're excited! We'll see you out on The Deck at The Belvedere at 4pm this afternoon.

22/11/2024

Searching for some sunshine today.

19/11/2024

It might be raining outside, and we might've gotten wet getting in & out of meetings today. But we won't miss a chance to sample new cafes along the way!

We can confirm the coffee was good 👍 ☕️

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18/11/2024

We've spent a lot of time reviewing professional photography files this week, including - most excitingly - the freshest lot of branded photography for ourselves 😆

Getting the photos back is always the most exciting part of a shoot.

Immediately followed by the pressure of how to use them.

With choice comes confusion at times. But having choice is far better than twiddling your fingers, because you don't have any resources at your finger tips, to help you create or curate content with.

This is the beauty of having a strong brief for your photography and understanding what needs you have for certain shots to be captured.

If you're new to professional photography, here's five tips to make sure there are branded images within your shot list for moments like this:
☝️ Have items with your branding on them. Like our office coffee cups in this photo, branded pens, business cards, brochures, uniforms, training materials, notepads - anything at all.

✌️Don't merchandise already? It's easy to get a coffee mug printed & a T-shirt from small business folks in your area. One off items that you will personally use are worth the investment to help you insert your visual brand to content.

🖖 Be consistent with your colours you wear. Think about what you wore in previous photography, & let that factor into future decisions. Don't wear the same items from the last batch of photography, so you have a broader collection of photos overall.

🤚 If personal branding photography is the project, having your "colours done" in advance equips you with insights & styles that suit you & your look.

🖐 When choosing a location, ask these questions: does the environment reflect what you do, how you do it, what you sell, who you are? If you can't say yes to any of these, think about the type of location that does. As an example, these last photos were taken at a hotel. We already host a lot of events at that hotel, it has spaces reflecting our client's work spaces that we work in, & the equipment & provisions the location provided are important items for how we complete our client projects too.

14/11/2024

We had a pool problem after our pool guy went to Victoria without a return ETA 😆

So we reached out to our fellow Sponsor network at the to find the right folks to help 👌

Now we don't have a pool problem!

Thanks

11/11/2024

Ocean Network is on tomorrow! Join Kirsty and Leanne - the Founders of Ocean Network - at The Belvedere Hotel at Woody Point from 7:30am tomorrow morning. The last brekky networking event for the year.

Tomorrow's guest speaker is our own Founder of Ocean Network: Leanne Blaney and she'll be discussing her simple blueprint to help you upgrade your mindset in order to achieve the success you seek within your business.

Ocean Network is a business group, based in Redcliffe, that hosts twice monthly free events designed for business owners. All members are business owners themselves, and enjoy the vibrant and welcoming nature of the group, which gathers by the bay on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month Feb-Nov.

🌊 We can't wait to see everyone there for our final Tuesday breakfast of 2024!!!

11/11/2024

At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.

Lest We Forget.

03/11/2024

We're out of the office for a few more days to come....

After another big week of event adventures, a little Sunday walk around the Sale Common in Victoria was a beautiful start to the day.

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Tried and tested specs for your Canva templates 🤩 Use this to design your Reels in your Canva account, and make sure your IMPORTANT stuff is staying inside the lines. 📲 We've been testing it on all our client's Instagram accounts and it's ready for you to use too! Take a look at how your Reels preview on your Instagram profile and if they're looking average since the Grid layout change, this is what you need to fix that moving forward. Side note, if you are including your logo on your Reels - you can make sure it's not half cut-off with this info. Save this post to your Canva tips folder on Instagram 😁 #SocialOcean #DIYmarketing #canvatips #canvahacks #SOhaveago #instagramtips #socialmedia101

The last couple of months went by in a whirl! The month of November saw Kirsty out of the office as much as she was in it - and working remotely from Victoria at the front and back end. It all started with the Summer Sunset Vibes event for Ladies Who Long Lunch and ended with another party for Ocean Network. But in between, there were many other outings. Every Thursday saw our littlest family members joining Kirsty in the office, where we discovered baby rave dancing, hanging out in the park and the teddy collection from the cupboard! To cap off many staff dinners, gallery openings, client meetings & drinks, we attended the Raise it for Redcliffe end of year event announcement of raising $1,000,000 + pitched in with the 2025 Share The Dignity 'It's in the bag' campaign. Loads of fun to recap for November! #socialocean #ladieswholonglunch #oceannetwork #familygoals #sharethedignity #raiseitforredcliffe

We're fielding a lot of questions about events at the moment. Makes sense with the silly season upon us. But the first secret to any event success starts with an excellent venue selection. Our recent end of year celebration for Ladies Who Long Lunch is a fine example of that! #SocialOceanevents #eventlife #venuespace #summersunsetvibes #eventmanagement

What a month we've had!!! It was so big we couldn't event fit it into a single recap reel 😆🤩 💙 instead we'd love to say thanks to all those we've worked with across the second half of October - could we possibly have done anymore?! Thanks for making it so fun & being wonderful friends in business! Cheers to you 🥂 Moreton Bay Business & Innovation Awards Danni Vee Quirky Habits How to Help Sage Room Co-op Ltd Bayside Admin & Bookkeeping A Little Social Amy Jackson - Nurturing Confidence SteinArt Graphic Design City of Moreton Bay Community Bank Samford The Belvedere Leanne Blaney - Master Your Mountain Hair Pro Hair Co Dazzling Finesse Thomas & Lange Jenn Wallace Consulting Dolphins NRL Oscar Hunt Talent Insight Solutions Ladies Who Long Lunch

What a month we've had!!! It was perfect to start the month with some time away, but after that.... There's been too many things to list 💙 instead we'd love to say thanks to all those we've worked with across October - it's been massive & we wouldn't have survived it without wonderful people around us. Cheers to you 🥂 The Belvedere Leanne Blaney - Master Your Mountain Queensland Department of Education Kedron-Wavell Crew Legal Andrew Reibelt The Komo Ros Lindsey Luke Howarth

We say cheers to our teachers today. Wishing a very happy World Teacher's Day to all our Queensland Teachers! QLD celebrates the day early due to the global day falling on school holidays. We've been privileged to work with hundreds of teachers around the state since Social Ocean started in 2018 - they're the reason why our business started in the first place, and they continue to bring us great energy, exciting projects and continued inspiration from the passion they have for their important roles within our community. We are so lucky to assist both Teachers and administrative staff each and every year!

And that's a wrap/recap on our September! What a great month 💙🌊 #SocialOcean

The power of networking can create wonderful impact on you personally, and on your business professionally. This is a great story about our Candle Mate Shirlee from Starfish Scarborough who reached out to her Designer Mate Kirsty from @socialoceanau and then reached out to her Printer Mate Evan from @kwikkopyeaglefarm to get new product packaging organised for an upcoming event. By the way, you can order these sensational smelling candles and diffusers in this custom-made scent from Shirlee or at the upcoming Jetty 2 Jetty fun run in Moreton Bay. Needs some new mates in business? Find them at The Ocean Network!

The Ocean Network is a business group dedicated to connecting business owners together. Members enjoy gathering twice a month at The Belvedere, Woody Point over coffee & breakfast. The program includes networking time, round table introductions & conversations, a business spotlight + an educational speaker delivering information to help you do better in business or to become a better person to do business. Founded in 2017 by Kirsty Fields and Leanne Blaney, the group meets on the 2nd & 4th Tuesday of each month at 7:30am - which means tomorrow is the day! See you at 7:30am. For more details, visit https://socialocean.com.au/contact/ocean-network/

Earlier this week, Kirsty was able to tour around some of the Moreton Bay Christmas Trees off the Redcliffe Peninsula, thanks to Robyn and Terry at @busyconnecting We know those of you local to Redcliffe probably know that Kirsty started a local Facebook Group for fellow Redcliffe locals who also share the annual interest in Christmas Light touring. This year the group has grown significantly! But if you aren't in it, where are you? Search "Redcliffe Christmas Lights 2023", for the local low down on lights you should check out... or to add yours!

Across the last month, Kirsty has been working toward to the Moreton Bay Says No 2 Violence event with her Steering Committee peers. On Friday hundreds of our peers, business connections, community organisation pals and family joined us in raising our voices against violence. Emotions were big. Tears were shed. But smiles always prevail with support of each other. We've learnt so much along the way. Though our area of action is working on logistics and promotions, the conversations and education and advocacy we've been honoured to be a part of is special for us. If you missed this event, and want to join next year, the date is Friday 31st May 2024. #moretonbaysaysno2violence #raiseyourvoiceagainstviolence #mbsn2v #SocialOcean #wesayno #ENCIRCLE #teammoretonbay #moretonbaybusiness #qldpolice #CADA #r#redrider #stopdomesticviolence #redcliffe

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An Ocean of Opportunities

The easiest way to start this process is via social media and leveraging the endless features available to your business at little to no financial cost. Social Ocean recognises how budget conscious sole traders, entrepreneurs and start-ups are and should be, and our business incorporates that cost-effective ethos.

The easiest way to start this process is via social media and leveraging the endless features available to your business at little to no financial cost. Social Ocean recognises how budget conscious sole traders, entreprenuers and start-ups are and should be, and our business incorporates that cost-effective ethos.

Our experience as the "one man band" means we understand how stressful and lonely the process of launching a business or new event is. We love to reduce our client’s stress, help them optimise their activity and use social platforms to get their business and events out there - better, faster and bigger.

Creative Director Kirsty Fields is an award-winning events manager who brings the buzz into your corporate events. With over 20 years experience, her ability to identity special details that allow you to leverage the opportunities an event presents are unique. Your business will have many facets to promote to your community and market with events. With Kirsty’s Events Marketing skills and your social media, you’ll be amazed at the number of opportunities available to you. Or have Social Ocean manage your event entirely.