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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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It's all in the attitude really! I have been working with a number of people over the past year as a business coach and it continues to amaze how critical attitude is to success. This is because attitude tends to drive behaviour and what we do leads to
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This is the traditional marketing model we all learned in university. But we really need to consider if this model remains appropriate for the digital age. My instinct is that we need to adapt this traditional model to incorporate new media channels and collaborative communications rather than abandon it. But
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As a bit of an experiment I participated in National Blog Posting Month for January 2009. It was a real test of discipline to write something every single day. But the goal was achieved and now I'm going to drop back to a less aggressive blogging schedule of