Kate Carruthers

New Twitter app: Botanicalls, where your plants tweet to let you know how they are doing. As it says on the website: "Botanicalls Twitter answers the question: What's up with your plant? It offers a connection to your leafy pal via online Twitter status updates that reach

General Colin Powell is a leader that I admire.  I ran across this list in my travels and thought it worth sharing. Lesson 1: "Good leaders sometimes make people unhappy." Lesson 2: "The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading

I was listening to the ABC Radio on the way home the other night and heard a conversation between Counterpoint's Michael Duffy and Jennifer Marohasy, a biologist and senior fellow of Melbourne-based think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. Now many think that the IPA is a

So nothing appears to have changed - we continue to hear the rhetoric of talent wars and continue to see the demonstrable lack of interest or investment in the 'talent' that is already there. Blame CIOs for the IT Skills Shortage We can't hire enough "talent.

This quote seems appropriate given the day .. Source: "Ain't I A Woman?", by Sojourner Truth, Delivered 1851 at the Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio By Carruthers via Aide-mémoire http://w.sharethis.com/widget/?tabs=web%2Cemail&charset=utf-8&services=facebook%

Danah Boyd (2007) wrote an interesting discussion of class issues in America as revealed by usage of Facebook and MySpace.  Her article , Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace, raises some interesting questions about corporate reactions to social networking being based on class issues (e.g. the military blocking