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Kate Carruthers
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Update on carbon footprint reduction
Well another great day of walking between meetings - 5.1 km today. This is only possible with some preparation. It means that I need to sit down and plan my day so as to ensure sufficient time between meetings. Also there are some tools that make it easier to
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Reducing my carbon footprint
A 2009 project is reducing my carbon footprint. A great by-product of this is that I am getting more exercise too. The other day I walked approximately 5.5 kms to get between my appointments in the city. The overall time for walking was about one hour, and this was
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We need a tribe - with Loic Le Meur and Seth Godin
In this Seesmic video Seth Godin explains to Loic Le Meur why you need a Tribe. I like his idea of getting together small groups of people who want to make change to collaborate & cooperate to make the world a better place. This is the kind of thinking that
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My Country
With such diverse and extreme weather occurring in Australia it seems like a good time to revisit a poem that talks about this. We are currently suffering from extreme heat & major bushfires in the south eastern states; with floods in the far north. The state of Victoria in particular
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Clever crows
http://youtube.com/v/2PmkreJHw4k This is a great example of adaptation to the environment. I love crows - they are such clever birds. I want to be resourceful like these crows.
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Caturday again and today we read from the lolcat bible
My favorite is Matthew 5. 2 He sez hai and he teaches teh kittehs, he sez: 3 Cheezburgrz 4 teh n00b kittehs, theys can has teh Ceiling. 4 Cheezburgrz 4 teh sad kittehs, theys can has petting. 27 Ceiling Cat iz liek “no buttsecks!!1!1 bad kittehz!” 28 but
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Enterprise 2.0 is where the action is!
Really looking forward to presenting a workshop at Ross Dawson's latest extravaganza the Enterprise 2.0 Forum. His events are are always interesting & get people talking! There is a thought provoking agenda & a bunch of smart people both on stage and in the audience. There will
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Explaining the times we face
In these days of gloom, doom and constant bad news it seems hard to take it all in. But sometimes it is not just a recitation of the facts we need. Sometimes poetry can sum it up better ... The Second Coming
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New venture: Silicon Federation
For many years I've worked at various levels in large corporate and government organisations in IT, web and marketing. Often my boss or someone higher up in the organsation would ask me: “What are other people doing?” And it can be really hard to find out the answer
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Handing Your Brand to the Consumer: Are You Willing to Let Go?
Really looking forward to the panel session I'll be leading at ad:tech Sydney on Handing Your Brand to the Consumer: Are You Willing to Let Go? The panel members have an amazing amount of experience between them and we're going to have a great discussion.
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Are we seeing the death of small government & personal responsibility?
It seems that there are very few political parties that genuinely support small government & individual responsibility any longer. Further, given the global financial crisis, governments around the world are clearly moving towards a more interventionist model. Thus we can expect the nanny state to go mad & we can