Innovation

Impress Media Australia works with a range of innovative Australian companies and individuals. Please read the stories below for details.

Sitebook's Chris AnthonyAustralian-developed Sitebook has made managing building projects as easy as using your smartphone by adding project management tools to its affordable building safety app.

First released as a OH&S tool, Sitebook now lets builders schedule and track tasks for multiple construction projects, maintaining safety compliance, and staying in touch with staff, subbies and suppliers, keeping your project on time and budget.

SiteBook, which runs on an Apple iPad or Samsung Galaxy, not only saves you time and money, but takes away the pain of managing projects by letting you monitor your site from wherever you are. For more about SiteBook, visit www.sitebook.com.au.

Meri and Horst hit the road to raise funds to find a cure for cancerAn Adelaide couple has launched a campaign to recruit as many as 200 cyclists who can raise more than $200,000 to fund research for the fight against cancer.

Meri Griesbach and her partner Horst, who lost their son after he was diagnosed with thyroid cancer, are hoping to lift the funds raised by the Lightsview Ride Like Crazy event from this year’s $800,000 to more than $1 million in January 2015.

To reach seven figures, the Seaview Downs couple have joined a national team of anti-cancer cyclists, called Vision Crusaders, which has raised more than $750,000 through cycling events from Perth to New Zealand since 2011, raising over $420,000 during 2014.

SA Police established Lightsview Ride Like Crazy Inc. in 2010 after the untimely death of police officer Mick "Crazy" Koerner, from an inoperable brain tumour. Since then, the mass participation bike ride has become a well-respected and successful community event.

The Dandies get their Mojo goingAmerican rock band The Dandy Warhols are the latest musical icons to become fans of Australia’s taste sensation MOJO Kombucha during their recent national tour of this country.

Like Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young before them, The Dandies came across the naturally made trendy tonic when their stage managers recommended it - and they were immediately won over.

The Dandies’ singer-guitarist Courtney Taylor-Taylor was full of praise for MOJO Kombucha. “If you’re in Australia, this stuff is awesome,” he posted on the band’s website at http://www.dandywarhols.com/news/airport-hotel-airport/.

“The ginger is the best one, by the way. The company sent us a bunch in Perth cuz they could believe we had it in our rider, and now they’re gonna send it to every show. Bless ‘em.”