Maru is the perfect Caturday choice...
I realised that I've never posted any of Maru's work for Caturday,l and that means some people might not know of his artistry.
Kate Carruthers
Serious games for business and education #GlobalSCRM
I've never been a big online game player (the third world bandwidth here in Australia has been enough to discourage many like me). But, having observed the development of online games and the gamer communities since the early days of the internet, I can see clearly that this
The Future of Games - Global Social CRM #GlobalSCRM
Yesterday I attended a fascinating session hosted by the Bay Area Executives Meetup on the topic of the The Future of Games: enterprises, education, social + more.
The session was conducted via CISCO Public TelePresence Suites, WebEx, Livestream, Twitter - with attendees from all around the world (Santa Clara, CA, San Francisco,
Gender parity in Australia
Bain & Company have just released a brief titled “Level the playing field: A call for action on gender parity in Australia”.
The key findings are:
* Australian men are 1.4 times more likely to believe that gender parity should be a strategic priority than men surveyed in the US
Girl Develop IT Sydney launches successfully #ozgdi
Girl Develop IT Sydney kicked off well last night with thirty eight students, led by the indomitable Pamela Fox and a number of teaching assistants.
Women from all sorts of jobs and backgrounds came along to grapple with the basics of web development - with the youngest still in high school.
Blog action day 2010 - theme is water
Today is Blog Action Day 2010 and the theme is water. Many people are without access to this most basic of human needs. In Australia we need to find ways to conserve the water we so often take for granted.
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Getting it Wrong? The Y2K bug revisited via @RNFutureTense
It was fascinating to take the time and think back to the days of the Y2K bug and discuss what happened (and some of the crazy hype that went on) with Paul Wallbank, Prof. John Quiggin on Radio National's Future Tense program with Antony Funnell.
You can listen