Now your plants can Twitter too!
Kate Carruthers New Twitter app: Botanicalls, where your plants tweet to let you know how they are doing. As it says on the website: “Botanicalls Twitter answers the question: What’s up with…
General Colin Powell: 18 Lessons from a very successful leader
General Colin Powell is a leader that I admire. I ran across this list in my travels and thought it worth sharing. Lesson 1: “Good leaders sometimes make people unhappy.”…
Global Warming or Global Cooling?
I was listening to the ABC Radio on the way home the other night and heard a conversation between Counterpoint’s Michael Duffy and Jennifer Marohasy, a biologist and senior fellow…
Some interesting perspectives on the Skills Shortage & Talent Wars
So nothing appears to have changed – we continue to hear the rhetoric of talent wars and continue to see the demonstrable lack of interest or investment in the ‘talent’…
Quote of the day on women’s rights
This quote seems appropriate given the day .. “Then that little man in black there, he says women can’t have as much rights as men, ’cause Christ wasn’t a woman!…
Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace
Danah Boyd (2007) wrote an interesting discussion of class issues in America as revealed by usage of Facebook and MySpace. Her article , Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and…
Bad Ajax & Flash
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The Haters
Duncan has shared a good one (beware it does contain ‘colourful’ language) 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=91b467b0-fcb3-4e42-95e0-1f04ad0c9be9
IT failures and social media
It is worth having a look at Krigsman’s interview on IT failures and social media. Shel Israel, co-author (with Robert Scoble) of the influential book on blogging, Naked Conversations, recently…
Social media for PR
Jason Falls over at Social Media Explorer has noted a good (or blatant) use of social media for PR. Worth a look to check out their modus operandi. By Carruthers…