Devils in the Workplace – part 1
Kate Carruthers We have all done it – putting on the special telephone answering voice as we pick up the phone. In our daily life, we use many different personas. This is…
Why I like MBTI
Over the years I have been put through many different personality assessments in the course of employment. Of all of them the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (a.k.a MBTI) remains my…
Social Media Community Building 2008
In Sydney we have had a great year of building a lively and vibrant social media community. Late last year many individuals decided that they wanted to be more connected…
New article on workforce development
The article is up on the TAFE NSW website now – Workforce development: Case studies in private and public sector implementation A big thank-you to Michael Specht and the team…
Imagining Technology Futures – part 6
For me some defining characteristics of social computing (or web 2.0 as some call it) have been (a) democratization of the process of creation, enabling user generated content; and (b)…
It’s Caturday again …
If you want a more serious view on lolcats then go here.
Imagining Technology Futures – part 5
Another key feature of the future will be an increased importance in data management to enable the semantic web. Databases are the key to the future of the web. Until…
“If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.”
Over lunch the other day with some girl geek buddies talk came around, as it does, to the revolutionary nature of community on the internet. It reminded me of this…
Imagining Technology Futures – part 4
New Interfaces are another area in which we can expect to see change. Since the development of the mouse and touch screens we have not seen any significant improvements in…
We need geeks!
It has been prevalent among many cultures to laugh at geeks. But this is a shortsighted approach to this special breed. Geeks have been with us for a long time.…