I was lucky enough to be invited to Media 140 in Perth recently to discuss what the ‘big idea’ is with social media.
The idea was for a context setting discussion about social media and how it is changing business and society.
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This talk by Bitly’s Matt LeMay at Monki Gras entitled: Kitteh vs Chickin: How What We Share is Different from What we Click is important and is really worth watching.
This talk gives us some [...]
As companies embrace the notion of a reputation economy fueled by the power of social platforms this brings a new set of challenges for management and employees.
I was at the Salesforce #cloudcrowd event in Sydney recently and we were discussing this issue with guest speaker
Jeff Jarvis sparked my thinking on this recently with his post on The Jobless Future. As Jeff so bluntly stated:
“We’re not going to have a jobless recovery. We’re going to have a jobless future.
Holding out blind hope for the magical appearance of new [...]
There is a tendency to put the word social in front of many other words to day to describe some new use of technology. I remain uncomfortable with the way we have plonked the word ‘social’ in front of so many other things, for example; networking, media, computing, business, etc.
One [...]
If you’ve got time it’s worth taking some of it to watch this interview with Jason and Gary.
Jason Calacanis, himself a serial entrepreneur, is a great supporter of startups with his LAUNCH Conference.
Gary Vaynerchuk is a well known entrepreneur who built up [...]
This is a fascinating interview by Parag Khanna (@paragkhanna) with Don Tapscott (@dtapscott). Tapscott discusses the potential upside and downside of collaborative revolutions for societies around the world and the implications for dissent, noting that:
“the Internet radically drops the cost of dissent”
Tomorrow night I’ll be hosting a panel for Digital Citizens on Politics and Digital Activism in the Social Age. The panel has a fascinating and diverse group of people:
Penny Sharpe – Labor Parliamentary Secretary for Transport and Roads John Bergin – Director of Digital News [...]
I had a chat with Stilgherrian (@stilgherrian) on ZDNet’s Patch Monday along with Open-source software advocate and developer Jeff Waugh (@jdub) and James Purser (@purserj) from Collaborynth, a consultancy that develops collaboration tools for business, government and not-for-profits.
You can listen to our discussion on this nifty embedded [...]
I rather suspect that some of the locals regard LeWeb as a kind of blowsy aunt who arrives in whirl, talks too loudly, drinks a bit too much, pinches their cheeks, and flies away again.
That said, I think Le Web is now a great conference. It’s [...]
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