2010 Blog theme – women in …
Kate Carruthers I’ve been thinking about having an overarching theme for my blog this year and have finally decided on women in … that is women who are doing interesting things like…
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Positive thinking versus positive action
There is a difference between merely engaging in positive thinking and undertaking positive action. On its own thinking is merely an interior act, and only when connected to positive actions…
Dirty little secret – women and money #febusave
Women share amazing amounts of information with each other – about relationships, family, sex, fashion, friends – often in quite intimate detail. But one of our remaining taboo areas is…
Talk about barriers to entry!
A while back I got an invitation to join a new social network 434U & was amazed at the barriers to entry & the onerous rules for participation. It’s a…
Twitter 2009 retrospective
For me 2009 goes down as the year other people discovered Twitter. It went from a small and fairly intimate place to hangout to a busy bustling intersection of information,…
2009 a personal year in review
This year has been one of great personal challenges for me and my family. To have made it to the end of the year with all of us still on…
Social connectors for #followfriday
One thing that has amazed me over the years is how some people are natural connectors. It is no surprise that many of those folks have ended up on Twitter.…
Citizens doing it for themselves
Recently, in the UK city of Birmingham, some people were unhappy with their local Council’s new £2.8 million website. Citizens took matters into their own hands and created their own…
TED: How the Internet enables intimacy
Stefana Broadbent’s TEDTalk video about her “research shows how communication tech is capable of cultivating deeper relationships, bringing love across barriers like distance and workplace rules” – interesting stuff: http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf
Is Mordy Koots a glimpse into the future of entertainment?
I had the pleasure of running into Jim Shomos the other night & he was telling me about his latest project – Mordy Koots. This project is amazing in the…