Are social networks breeding social isolation?
Kate Carruthers 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…
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3 essential elements of a business social media arsenal
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…
real people for #followfriday
Here’s some more real people that I follow on Twitter: @salisburydowns & @susiecameron – I put these together as they’re partners in crime most of the time, if you’re interested…
Blog action day 2009: What can one person do? #BAD09
Today is Blog Action Day 2009 & the topic is climate change. “Climate change affects us all and it threatens more than the environment. It threatens to cause famine, flooding,…
some real people for #followfriday
Here’s some more real people that I follow on Twitter: @servantofchaos – knows his digital marketing stuff and he’s passionate about real relationships (check out Friday Surry Hills social media…
Conversation Cafe Sydney with @Warlach
Here’s @Warlach‘s perspective on the recent conversation cafe at AMP Sydney (more info about David Gurteen’s concept here) Taken with the Flip Mino HD http://www.theflip.com
If trust is a currency how do you avoid bankruptcy?
There has been a lot of talk in the social media and web 2.0 world about trust as the base currency of this new world (e.g. Trust Economies: Investigation into…
Community, caring and cupcakes
It was so touching to see a bunch of people who linked up via Twitter join in and participate in a community event like Cupcake Camp Sydney last Friday night.…
Pointless banter and the building of bonds
There’s been some ‘research‘ about Twitter by Pear Analytics claiming that “Pointless Babble” represented “40.55% of the total tweets captured”. What’s interesting is that these folks completely miss the importance…
Remembering Lan, an ordinary woman …
I have been privileged to know many inspiring women during my life. But the first of these influential women was my mother. Lan grew up in a large and rambunctious…