About Honeysuckle Creek Pty Ltd

Formed in late 2006 to act as the umbrella organisation for a variety of projects and businesses, Honeysuckle Creek Pty Ltd is involved in a mixture of both digital and real-world activities.

Privately owned by its founder and Managing Director, Mick Stanic, the company currently operates two businesses in the digital industry; Upper Yarra Digital Media and Upper Yarra Web Hosting, while the flagship digital business for Honeysuckle Creek, DSS46 Digital, is currently planned to open before the end of 2010.

The first real-world business opened by Honeysuckle Creek is ExpeditionOz Services, which provides expedition planning, management and other support services for personal, business or scientific expeditions. We are also planning to host a number of interesting expeditions each year that members of the public can join.

We have also invested in a Victorian based company called EYEfi Pty Ltd, who design and provide Spatial Video and Data Services which includes; rapid deployment of 3G wireless and solar powered IP video solutions, telemetry products and a Telco network hosted IP CCTV application.

While the businesses mentioned above are the major focus at the current time and for the near future, a number of other digital and real-world businesses are in their evaluation stages.

 

Interesting Fact
Honeysuckle Creek Pty Ltd is named after the NASA Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station which was located near the Australian capital of Canberra. The tracking station, also known as HSK, and later as DSS-44 and DSS-46 after its move to its Tidbinbilla location, was responsible for capturing and forwarding the video images to the rest of the world of the first eight minutes of the moon walk by Neil Armstrong, including his historic first step on the moon on the 21st of July 1969.

If you want to learn more you can visit the Honeysuckle Creek tribute site, the wikipedia entry or check out my own images of the location.

 

Honeysuckle Creek Pty Ltd Founder >> Mick Stanic

Mick has spent most of his working life working in two industries: the first few years were taken up by the live event and recording industry, which has been followed up by a substantial amount of time in the multimedia / online / new media / digital media / digital services space.

His passions and past experience also extend to planning and mounting expeditions and trips to a variety of locations.

Since 1988 Mick has worked for and managed a diverse range of companies which has included everything from small start-ups with only two or three staff through to large companies with 30+ employees located across multiple offices in Australia. The clients he has worked with have also covered the same sort of sizes and varied locations.

During the period between 1990 and 1997 Mick operated as “SplaTT Technologies” (archive), which provided internet, multimedia and virtual reality / simulation services for private individuals, businesses and both State and Federal government departments. From 1997 to late 2004 he worked for a number of internet / digital media / digital marketing businesses in a variety of senior and managerial roles at companies such as ABT, The Capital Group, HotHouse, Next Online/Next Publishing and Ogilvy Interactive.

Between 2005 and 2008 he founded and ran “Principius”, which provided high level consultancy and future-casting services to marketing, communications and technology organisations around the world. While running Principius he also co-founded the worlds first commercial podcasting network, The Podcast Network (TPN), which he later left so he could focus on his next venture.

To consolidate all of his business ideas Mick founded Honeysuckle Creek Pty Ltd in 2006, which is a company with a diverse range of interests including both digital and real-world projects.

Between June 2006 and June 2010 Mick sat as a Director on the national board of AIMIA (Australian Interactive Media Industry Asociation), and was also a Director of EYEfi Pty Ltd between 2007 and 2010.

Mick has been blogging on a number of topics at SplaTT’s blog since 2003 and you can find out more about him at his LinkedIn page.