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I have taken some time out from business meetings in Europe to make something of a personal pilgrimage in the steps of my ANZAC ancestors.
It has been a very moving and very sombre experience. To see the tiny spaces of land fought over in World War 1 that resulted [...]
Sydney’s inaugural Social Innovation BarCamp went well yesterday.
The day kicked off with an opening talk by the Hon. Bob Carr, who kindly gave his time to support this event.
Throughout the day we had some amazing networking and discussion sessions focused on creating sustainable futures [...]
Social media and social networking do not reduce the need for good social skills. Rather, the disconnection from physical presence in online communication makes social skills (what some call EQ) even more critical.
Some of the recent fracas rebounding across Twitter are a good example of this – [...]
I’m speaking at the National Growth Summit 2010 in Sydney this week about engagement marketing and running a workshop on Technology to drive Growth.
The line-up includes a number of international luminaries along with local experts, gurus and knowledgeable people such as: Mick Liubinskas,
I recently experienced how easily one can disrupt a stable ecosystem. And I learned the hard way how difficult it can be to re-stabilise that same ecosystem!
We have two dogs and one of them likes to socialise around the neighbourhood, and to this end she will dig [...]
Reputation is critical for any person or business – we only have to look at the professional reputations of the James Hardie directors & managers in the news today.
Social media can be a great way for companies & individuals to build their reputations. But it also means [...]
The other night I caught up with some folks who (except for @dbendall) also happen to use Twitter (@fibendall, @iggypintado, @kerrypintado) at a local pub for some grub, a drink, lively conversation & exchange of ideas.
Now this is a smart and [...]
In an earlier generation all computer networks were for business or the military. That is, they were point-to-point connections between large organisations and were vastly expensive to setup and run. But the invention of TCP/IP and the modern internet changed all that. Now networks are between ordinary people using simple [...]
A buddy, Iggy Pintado, has just published a book called Connection Generation which talks about how connection determines our place in society and business.
It’s an interesting idea and ties in nicely to my idea that the new digital divide is not between age cohorts, nor [...]
Seth Godin makes an interesting point about a new digital divide:
“I think a new divide has opened up, one that is based far more on choice than on circumstance. Several million people (and the number is growing, daily) have chosen to become the haves of the Internet, [...]
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