Kate Carruthers

I have been using the following article as a bit of a case study with my students (who are currently studying project & SDLC management) this past week. It is such a good example of why this stuff is important to get right. Here a company has attributed bankruptcy to

Off to Melbourne tomorrow to speak at the Ark Group's Demonstrating the Strategic Importance of Internal Communication Conference - which is all about "enhancing recognition of the internal communication function by demonstrating tangible results". My session is about "Web 2.0 in practice: effectively employing social

On this day when Australia's Parliament finally made an apology to the aboriginal people it is worth thinking back to Paul Keating's revolutionary speech in 1992 at Redfern. I still recall thinking that, at last, Australia was ready to be grown up now that our leader

Apparently today has been deemed Safer Internet Day 2008 and according to this email from Stephen Conroy: "... Australia will join some 50 countries around the world in activities designed to raise awareness of the safety of children in the online environment, the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital

Just had a couple of new computer science grads sitting next to me today so I took the opportunity to explore their use of social networking technologies. The results were interesting: * neither liked MySpace as it was for "12 year olds" plus everyone could see all your stuff

I think I might be working too hard these days or have too much on my mind.  But at least I'm having dream help.  Last night I dreamed the answers to a bunch of work I'm in the middle of and spent today just powering through