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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 * finance * technology * science * engineering * management * innovation * start-ups * marketing * media * and whatever other interesting careers pop up Women have come
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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 does it create new realities. Look at issues like slavery, women's rights, democracy. Changes in each of these
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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 money. I can hardly recall any conversations with girlfriends about money and its management. Recently I was horrified to discover
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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 new invitation only social network - I do wish them luck. But for me it makes me go
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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, commerce and conversations. It felt almost like moving from a small town to a big and somewhat impersonal city. Some
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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 deck is a good feeling. 2009 brought home to me how truly important continued good health is, and how lucky
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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. Here’s a few amazing people connectors that I follow on Twitter: @hollingsworth - one of the mainstays of Sydney
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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 version of the Birmingham city website using an open source collaborative platform. We can expect to see
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Stefana Broadbent's TEDTalk video about her "research [that] 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
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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 way that it brings together so many of the threads of film, gaming, web and social computing. Lots of the
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I recently had a thought provoking note from a buddy, Sheetal Patel, who's not really a fan of social networking apart from LinkedIn. He commented that "perhaps this increasing human need to relate is being perpetuated by Web 2.0 enablement technologies standing on (and encouraging even
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Joel Postman argues that A Blog is a Better Social Media Hub Than Twitter. I tend to agree, especially from a business perspective. His post got me thinking about the critical elements for a business social media toolkit. 1) A Blog or a Website (it's the same thing