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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 in entertaining your kids or getting them active these tweeps are it @PeterBlackQUT - lectures
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Today is Blog Action Day 2009 & the topic is climate change. Given the urgency of the issue of climate change and the upcoming international climate negotiations in Copenhagen this December, we think the blogosphere has the unique opportunity to mobilize millions of people around expressing support for finding a
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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 coffee mornings) @maverickwoman - one of the most curious people I've ever met, her
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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
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At the recent Sydney Knowledge Cafe I managed to catch up with a few buddies & ask them why they were there. Here's Katie Chatfield explaining why she attended. The video was taken with the new Flip Mino HD (an extremely nifty gadget). [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/
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The idea of #followfriday is a nice one - share the names of people worth following on Twitter. However, it's turned into a bit of a spam fest on Twitter. I thought it would be nice to share about some of the real life people I follow and
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Goodness me, how quickly time passes. It is Blog Action Day on 15 October 2009. This year it is about Climate Change. Blog Action Day is an annual event that unites the world's bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day on their own blogs
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Through the very kind offices of @ApostrophePong (& his trusty assistant @Stilgherrian) we have a great video record of the recent event. A really big thank-you again to everyone for getting involved. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy34XgOKoYU&w=411&h=304]
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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 the New ROI of the Web). But where there is a currency there is also the possibility of
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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. To explain: CupcakeCamp (which was invented by Ariel Waldman) is: ... an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to
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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 of banter in the building of social bonds between
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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 Irish (Greek) Australian family in Sydney's inner west. It was a time when ladies wore hats, gloves &