Social media for business
Kate Carruthers Let’s look at a few facts about the world today from a social computing perspective. Social computing has gone mainstream. When you consider the sheer number of people who are…
April 2009
Too much passion in business?
We are often exhorted to be passionate about things, especially at work. But I’m not sure that is really what we need in the modern workplace. Passion has become a…
Telstra lays down rules for engagement!
One of Australia’s national pastimes is Telstra bashing – and heaven knows even I’ve indulged a time or two. But still credit where credit is due. They have been engaging…
Business in the Cloud
It is true that there is nothing new under the sun (Ecc 1:9) and for those of us old enough to remember computer bureaux the move the cloud computing is…
Power of the personal
We are rapidly moving away from the old impersonal world of broadcast media. This has important implications for getting our messages out to people. It means that we need to…
Social computing & IT Governance
The democratization of software that has occurred with the development of social computing raises some important issues about IT governance. When we are dealing with consumer to consumer applications like…
Social computing & IT Governance
The democratization of software that has occurred with the development of social computing raises some important issues about IT governance. When we are dealing with consumer to consumer applications like…
IE8 for home or corporates?
Finally finished installing IE8 on all our PCs at home this morning. I’ve been using it on my own machine for a few weeks now. I like it and have…
Girl Geeks & Opinions
Just back from the first Girl Geek Dinner Sydney for 2009, kindly hosted by Google at their funky new offices down near the water in Pyrmont. Damana – the force…
Democratization of Technology
This is a term I’ve used for a while now and never really defined. It is probably worth discussing as it has come to form an important part of my…