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Ada is an amazing role model for women in science and technology - more here. I'm always surprised to hear from people who have studied computing or programming but who don't know about Ada. Also worth looking at - to put Ada's achievements in
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Caught up with Tom Austin at the Gartner conference in Sydney in late 2008 and he shared his perspective on the web 2.0 user revolution and its impact on IT. Tom started out by asking how organisations fell so far behind user & internet trends. He noted that in
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Jeremiah Owyang' post on A Chronology of Brands that Got Punk’d by Social Media should be required reading for all marketers seeking to venture online. Some of the issues in these marketing disasters include: * lack of openness & authenticity * just not getting the community & what made sense
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Way back in the early 1990s Sun Microsystems had a slogan "the network is the computer". It did not make sense to any of us back then. However, today it is a different story. Today we are rapidly moving our personal applications into the Cloud sometimes perhaps without
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There's a good list of modern military thinkers on Kotare's blog. For anyone trying to make sense of much of the stuff going on around the world this list is a good starting point.
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During our busy lives it seems to me that we often let the chances for peace pass us by. And how does this happen? It happens with our reactions to things, to events, to words and actions by other people. For example, the snappy response to a question asked when
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It was very interesting to watch the 2008 US election campaign with all its talk of hope. Checking Wikipedia, a definition of Hope "is a belief in a positive outcome related to events and circumstances in one's life." But hope is not a strategy by which
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Marketing in the good old days:In the past marketers thought they were in control of their brand and their messages. They had lots of resources and became expert at creating above the line and below the line campaigns that pushed their messages out to their consumers. In this world
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The traditional approaches to managing organizations have been optimized so much that there little improvement that can be made. At the same time there are huge changes in society and how people want and expect to work. With the growth of collaboration technologies such as web 2.0 and entry
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For many years I have thought that American friends were delusional when they rhapsodised about their burgers. After all I had eaten at McDonalds so I knew what an American burger was like. However, at the urging of several friends I tried some real American burgers on a recent trip
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Reading this book at the moment - Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects by Dmitry Orlov. It is very interesting to consider how Australia would manage. Orlov considers America and its current situation in the light of a possible economic and social upheaval. He compares the American situation
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There is one thing that I've often thought was sadder than a funeral itself. It is the way that everyone stands around saying what they liked about the deceased when they are no longer around to hear it. Sometimes it is even sadder to hear that they never