ideas
I've been reading an old article that remains extremely interesting - it is an academic paper dating back to 2001 titled Bad Is Stronger Than Good. The authors note that: ... Bad impressions and bad stereotypes are quicker to form and more resistant to disconfirmation than good ones. "
social innovation
I was lucky enough to hear my friend Mark Pesce speak at the Social Innovation BarCamp in Sydney on 6 Nov and his talk, while entertaining, was also profound. Mark commenced by referring to mobile phones as "dream machines that deliver the desires of the material heart". Then
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social innovation
After many weeks of planning with my co-conspirators Selena Griffith, Michelle Williams and Kim Chen we are finally on the eve of the second Social Innovation BarCamp. This venture was a leap of faith for us. At the start we did not know if anyone else had a passion for
ideas
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 their opinion that the Commonwealth Bank is destroying its brand by such a callous action. But this view ignores the
management & leadership
Recently I noted several large businesses announcing proudly they had adopted Agile development techniques - for example Suncorp, NBN Co, Allianz, Jemena. There is a pattern to the adoption of a new methodology within an organisation. I have lived through the adoption of a number of new methodologies over the
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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.
education
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
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Happy Caturday!
social computing & social media
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
gender & sexism
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
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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