civil society
One of the people who is vocal in his calls for change in how we do things in our westernised societies is Umair Haque. His work is worth reading whether or not you agree with his perspective. Some of his recent provocative tweets include: History may have been ruled by
social computing & social media
When I checked on a major search engine the other day there were 247,000,000 results for the term "content is king". Many people have said it to me over the past few years, and I admit to having said it myself on occasion. It seems that
ideas
This made me think of Senators Penny Wong & David Bushby: Senator Wong fired back: "You meow when a woman does that ... that's a good idea. It is just extraordinary. "The blokes are allowed to yell but if a woman stands her ground, you want to
civil society
Just finished a dinner in Canberra with @IainDale @msgovtech @craigthomler @purserj @piawaugh @stilgherrian @peterjblack @nickhodgemsft @markpesce @gcarraro before the forum tomorrow. We had some really lively discussions about politics, society, transparency and government. With this group one must really fight to get a word in edgewise! But Iain Dale, who
ideas
civil society
I've never been a big fan of David Allen's Getting Things Done® method - all that sorting and categorising of endless lists bores me. But I am a huge fan of getting stuff done. Many years ago after yet another time management course at work I realised
innovation
Enterprise 2.0 is one of those terms that's been going around business circles for the past few years. I'm not sure it ever really meant anything sensible and I'm not sure it is a meaningful way to approach a very real problem in
social computing & social media
This kind of stuff is why I love Gary Vaynerchuk! As he correctly identifies, we have people who are clueless about business and about technology hyping that which they do not understand. He also correctly identifies the looming social media bubble: he says, continuing with “we are going to live
ideas
social innovation
I'm exhausted after a busy weekend and totally inspired by the people I just spent the weekend with! We held the first Social Innovation Sydney Startup Camp this weekend. It was great to see so many people willing to work together in an open and collaborative way on
ideas
ideas
I've been thinking about innovation a great deal lately and am fascinated by how many people confuse two different kinds of innovation. The two different kinds of innovation are: 1. continuous improvement - the drive for operational excellence, which is driven by optimising existing business processes and products (in