Kate Carruthers
Collaboration, collective creation & getting things done
With their un-organised approach to management and decision making Quakers are the poster children for collaboration, collective creation and getting things done.
Quakers do not have a formal hierarchy and have no single person in control of their society. It is an approach to getting things done that aligns
Social networking in the office
We had interesting discussions about many things last night at the ACS meeting in Wollongong. But one discussion in particular - about the use of social networking platforms in the office - really helped to clarify my position.
I am getting heartily sick of the debate about whether 'young' folks
BarCamp, Community & New Ways
Having recently seen the film, I'm now reading the comic novel Watchmen
. It is the kind of fiction that really gets you thinking about many things. A great quote from the book is:
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... The solution
so too is caturday!
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Ada Lovelace Day
March 24 is Ada Lovelace Day - and many will ask who was Ada?
Ada Lovelace was one of the world's first computer programmers, and one of the first people to see computers as more than just a machine for doing sums. She was born in 1815, the year
Online social network revolution
I'm not sure that most people have realised yet, but social networks are creating a revolutionary change in the way we interact with other people. And they are revolutionary in that they also change how we do things and our expectations of how things work.
Non-localised proximity