social computing & social media
New technology often seems to take a while for us to work out how to fit new cultural practices around it. I suspect that social networking fits the norm in that regard. Human beings have been networking in forest, fields, villages and cities for aeons - but it is only
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Once people have used Twitter for a while they often ask: How can a very large number of people be your friends? The truth is they can't all be your intimate friends but that there are degrees of friendship just as exist in real life. And on Twitter
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So many people ask me about how to manage or create rules of engagement for social media and social networking for their business and staff. Usually I direct them to some good resources like these as a starting point: * I am a Civil Servant Online Participation Guidelines (their site is
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A while back Kate Kendall wrote a blog post that noted a number of women named 'Kate' or 'Katie' who are involved in Australian women in online marketing movement (WOMM). Coincidentally a bunch of women named Kate/Katie were attending ad:tech Sydney and were all
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We had a really good discussion on this topic in our panel session this morning at ad:tech Sydney. The topic was Handing Your Brand To The Consumer: Are You Willing To Let Go? The distinguished panel members were: Charis Palmer, Managing Editor, Online Banking Review; Jackie Maxted, CEO, beautyheaven.
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Most years recently I've avoided IWD lunches in Sydney by the simple expedient of being on vacation in north eastern Canada. But this year it was not possible to squeeze in a late February - early March vacation due to my business trip in December. But there was
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There is a lot of focus on all the technical stuff around Enterprise 2.0 - the platforms, open source v. proprietary, etc. But achieving success with Enterprise 2.0 can actually come down to attitude as much as anything else. My top 5 attitudes for Enterprise 2.0 sucess
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- some more thoughts following on from the Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum. Here is my list of the top 10 enablers for Enterprise 2.0 - this is not an exhaustive list merely my notes based on sessions at the forum and various conversations with participants. One thing that
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Caught up with Pia Waugh on the road trip to Yass the other day. We were talking about girl geeks and some really annoying things we keep hearing. And we're not the only ones. A number of my geeky girlfriends have been discussing women and technology for a
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