Kate Carruthers

It's not the technology that is the problem with adoption and implementation of enterprise 2.0, rather is the people, culture and habits we have built up in the workplace. For years we have imposed technology on the enterprise from the top down with little dialogue and engagement

Another fun event with some of the @STUB (Sydney Twitter Underground Brigade) crowd. Suspect division into teams on gender lines led to spectacular EPIC fail where both teams got zero points. Nevertheless can recommend the Wednesday night trivia at the Marlborough Hotel (aka the Marly) in Newtown.  The place has

Chatting with Mark Jones, Paul McKeon and Frank Eliason on The Scoop podcast this morning about corporate Twitter. It was fun to talk with these folks and have a chance to think about Twitter in a corporate context. Frank described Twitter as "instant messaging gone mad", which is

Finally some regular IRL activity around the web start up community in Sydney is getting traction with initiatives like FITSBAD (aka Friday Information Technology Silicon Beach Australia Drinks ). Generally FITSBAD folks can be found gathering somewhere at the Shelbourne Hotel (usually on level 2) in Sydney CBD from 5.00

Spoke at the Enterprise 2.0 for Information Professionals conference in North Sydney yesterday - my slides are on slideshare - and was grateful for the opportunity to consider enterprise 2.0 adoption.  Some really good questions from the floor (HT: @chieftech, @innotecture, @kdelarue) about how it relates to innovation prompted some

Stopped by for a breather and to recharge my laptop battery today at the Sydney Westin Hotel. There was no place available for me sit, have a refreshing beverage and also to charge my laptop.  So the staff relocated a small table to an unused corner next to a power