Big Banks: brands, emotion and reality
Kate Carruthers It has been fascinating to watch the consumer and media response to the recent increase of interest rates above the Reserve Bank rate by the Commonwealth Bank. Many have expressed…
social computing & social media
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…
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…
Social media, reputation and immediacy
Reputation is critical for any person or business – we only have to look at the professional reputations of the James Hardie directors & managers in the news today. Social…
Twitter, purpose and community
A while back Twitter was having some real problems with stability and scalability and it dawned on me that they, like many innovators, had not realised what kind of invention…
Is social computing just increasing our anxiety?
Since the early days of the internet revolution and web 2.0 I’ve been watching & participating in various ways. And over the past few years I’ve seen its powerful properties…
Project TOTO farewell gathering
For those who continue to think that Twitter is all about pimple faced geeks sitting alone in the dark at home tapping away on their computers here’s another real life…
Social networking & your career
I had the pleasure of speaking, along with Karen Ganschow from Telstra, at the FITT CeBIT lunch today in Sydney. We had a great turnout and there were even a…
I’m wondering about scribetribe?
When two of the nicest and smartest people I know start talking about a new idea they are working on I get extremely curious. So when @jedwhite (entrepreneur & startup…
Social networking in the office
We had interesting discussions about many things last night at the ACS meeting in Wollongong. But one discussion in particular – about the use of social networking platforms in the…