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Spoke at the Enterprise 2.0 for Information Professionals conference in North Sydney yesterday - my slides are on slideshare - and was grateful for the opportunity to consider enterprise 2.0 adoption. Some really good questions from the floor (HT: @chieftech, @innotecture, @kdelarue) about how it relates to innovation
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Stopped by for a breather and to recharge my laptop battery today at the Sydney Westin Hotel. There was no place available for me sit, have a refreshing beverage and also to charge my laptop. So the staff relocated a small table to an unused corner next to a power
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For years I've been telling people that delivering successful IT projects is not 'rocket science'. After all we've got a huge body of past experience to learn from, we've even got a Project Management Body of Knowledge! But still we see projects
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Busy week - will be speaking at the Enterprise 2.0 for Information Professionals Conference in Sydney on Thursday 14th Aug on topic of stakeholders and enterprise 2.0 adoption . It has been very interesting to think about this issue again. It becomes increasingly apparent that adoption of web 2.
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Many folks ask me to direct them to policies and procedures for online participation for their staff. Usually I suggest that this is better done as an organic response by each organisation. But here is a good example of " Principles for participation online " from the UK's
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I've been thinking more about some of the challenges related to adoption of agile SDLC methods in larger enterprises. A key concept that keeps coming up is the importance of project management and how it relates to the agile SDLC (using Scrum as example here). Some people seem
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Just been creating a wordle diagram for a conference talk I'm planning - wordle is great: By Carruthers via Aide-mémoire http://w.sharethis.com/widget/?tabs=web%2Cemail&charset=utf-8&services=facebook%2Cdigg%2Cstumbleupon%2Cdelicious%2Creddit%2Cblinklist%2Cnewsvine%2Cfurl%2Ctailrank%2Cmagnolia&style=rotate&publisher=
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There is a new tool for the busy blogger, AussieBloggers have released a Lazy Bloggers Post Generator. It could come in handy when you're busy. Just gave the tool a quick test with the following generated post: OMG! I just discovered I have not updated this since last
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"Well established hierarchies are not easily uprooted; Closely held beliefs are not easily released; So ritual enthralls generation after generation." Tao Te Ching All change is difficult. It requires strong leadership and an understanding of foundations needed to instantiate the desired change. Most of all change requires that
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The purpose of MobilizeThis2008 is to bring educators, e-learning technologists, managers, tech-heads and cross-sector organisation representatives together in a program that fosters conversations, workshops and online experiences to inform practical pedagogical practice employing ICT's in an open and global context. I've been asked to present at
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Here's a bit of fun with this quiz about identifying your personal strengths, my results below: http://www.findthelostring.com/_res/badges/dikaiosune-en.swf Link to quiz By Carruthers via Aide-mémoire http://w.sharethis.com/widget/?tabs=web%2Cemail&charset=utf-8&services=facebook%2Cdigg%2Cstumbleupon%2Cdelicious%
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In recent times there has been talk in the press about the dangers and evils of social networking technology (Facebook, Myspace, etc. ) in the workplace. Many commentators voice concerns about employees wasting time at work. In a recent AustralianIT article Nick Ingelbrecht from Gartner is quoted saying "social networking