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Explaining the times we face
In these days of gloom, doom and constant bad news it seems hard to take it all in. But sometimes it is not just a recitation of the facts we need. Sometimes poetry can sum it up better ... The Second Coming
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New venture: Silicon Federation
For many years I've worked at various levels in large corporate and government organisations in IT, web and marketing. Often my boss or someone higher up in the organsation would ask me: “What are other people doing?” And it can be really hard to find out the answer
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Handing Your Brand to the Consumer: Are You Willing to Let Go?
Really looking forward to the panel session I'll be leading at ad:tech Sydney on Handing Your Brand to the Consumer: Are You Willing to Let Go? The panel members have an amazing amount of experience between them and we're going to have a great discussion.
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Are we seeing the death of small government & personal responsibility?
It seems that there are very few political parties that genuinely support small government & individual responsibility any longer. Further, given the global financial crisis, governments around the world are clearly moving towards a more interventionist model. Thus we can expect the nanny state to go mad & we can
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Glass half full or half empty?
It's all in the attitude really! I have been working with a number of people over the past year as a business coach and it continues to amaze how critical attitude is to success. This is because attitude tends to drive behaviour and what we do leads to
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Marketing principles for the digital age?
This is the traditional marketing model we all learned in university. But we really need to consider if this model remains appropriate for the digital age. My instinct is that we need to adapt this traditional model to incorporate new media channels and collaborative communications rather than abandon it. But
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National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo) Retrospective
As a bit of an experiment I participated in National Blog Posting Month for January 2009. It was a real test of discipline to write something every single day. But the goal was achieved and now I'm going to drop back to a less aggressive blogging schedule of
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Has web 2.0 gone mainstream?
Given the statistics in this 2007 report from Avenue A Razorfish and recent anecdotal feedback from non-geek friends, students and relatives web 2.0 is firmly entrenched in the mainstream. Ordinary people regularly get their news by checking online newspapers, flick through YouTube when they are bored, share links to
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Future of the web
This chart from 2007 shows the trajectory of the web future moving in a straight line from where we are now (or were in 2007) to the future of web 4.0 and beyond. But I don't think that the future of the web will such a simple
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News is really changing
There has been much talk of the death of mainstream media and the impact of the blogosphere on news gathering and journalism. People have pontificated long and loud about the rise of citizen journalism. But it seems that many have failed to see the breadth of this change. Thus not
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Shanks' Pony (a.k.a. taking a walk)
This fine institution - shanks' pony - has been a vital part of human transport for generations. It is an old-fashioned term that means travelling by foot. I've been experimenting with this novel concept all week. Walking between appointments in the city during the business day (rather
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Goal setting is not enough
Many time and productivity experts recommend goal setting and suggest writing down goals to help focus on them. But what is it really that stops us from achieving those goals? Perhaps we are starting with the externals - i.e. the goals - before looking at the internals? We need