Presenting with power means PowerPoint must not be a crutch
Kate Carruthers We are currently planning the next Social Innovation BarCamp for 6 Nov 2010 in Sydney and I’ve just written a post about it called 4 Principles and 2 Laws of…
collaboration
Call for Papers: Haecksen Miniconf LCA2011
The folks over at LCA2011 are running a Haecksen miniconf and have issued a call for papers closing on 24 September 2010 … “The Haecksen miniconf is on again! This…
Sydney’s inaugural Social Innovation BarCamp #sibsyd
Sydney’s inaugural Social Innovation BarCamp went well yesterday. The day kicked off with an opening talk by the Hon. Bob Carr, who kindly gave his time to support this event.…
Knowledge, convenience and findability (thanks @KerrieAnne)
This amusing cat picture was suggested by my buddy @KerrieAnne as a Caturday candidate – it’s from a post by Nick Milton titled You wont use it if you can’t…
Ownership, new ideas and openness
We see much discussion of the openness and collaborative nature of the web 2.0 world. However, many of the challenges facing us as a result of this new world relate…
Libraries for the future
I spent most of my youth and childhood hanging about in public libraries and reading their books. In fact I blame libraries for most of my quirks these days, since…
Being real
As a child I read a story where the main character wanted to be a ‘real boy’ and not just a wooden puppet. And this choice between being a real…
Real world social values and social networking
Social media and social networking do not reduce the need for good social skills. Rather, the disconnection from physical presence in online communication makes social skills (what some call EQ)…
International Women’s Day 2010 #IWD
It is fascinating to note on this International Women’s Day that one of our major newspapers has an article titled “Gender pay gap shows no sign of abating” The gender…
Not just Twitter, most conversation is meaningless babble
It’s not really meaningless babble anyway! And this is not necessarily a bad thing. Most conversation is not important for the words we speak. Instead it is the act of…