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I commend this video by Nick Hodge to you this ANZAC Day. Nick talks about the people side of war and how he has tracked down some of his family history about WWI and WWII using online resources. This is a different perspective to a lot of what we hear
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They shall grow not old, As we that are left grow old, Age shall not weary them, Nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun, And in the morning We will remember them. -- Laurence Binyon Australia and our ANZAC history has produced many amazing characters, but
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One of the social events that are part of the Connecting Up 09 conference is a Women in IT Brunch at which Jody Mahoney (Vice President, Business Development, at the Anita Borg Foundation) is the guest speaker. For the uninitiated, the Anita Borg Institute was founded in 1997 by renowned
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A buddy, Iggy Pintado, has just published a book called Connection Generation which talks about how connection determines our place in society and business. It's an interesting idea and ties in nicely to my idea that the new digital divide is not between age cohorts, nor is it
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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 actively participating in social media and social networking every day it is no longer the early adopter. When
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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 synonym for other words that are potentially more accurate. Passion is a very excitable emotion. It narrows the
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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 in social media and social networking for a while now and I've come to
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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 an amusing 'back to the future' moment. As Ambrose Bierce said: "There is nothing new under
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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 discover the power of the personal. One person who really got this - or at least whose advisers got it
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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 Facebook or YouTube issues of governance are not that significant. That is, where netizens are connecting with each other and
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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 Facebook or YouTube issues of governance are not that significant. That is, where netizens are connecting with each other and
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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 even made it the default browser for my PC. My favourite new feature is the Accelerators. Must note