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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 pay gap can cost women up to $1 million over a lifetime * Women earn 17pc less
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Spoke during the last session of the day at Media 140 Perth about realtime web and how it might evolve into an internet of connected people and things. Our evolution towards a networked and hyperconnected society is under way. The slides might be somewhat opaque without the commentary but please
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Nearly 9,000 women signed up for the Febusave 2010 campaign, for example: * 2,307 pledged to give up buying lunch * 1,118 pledged to give up treats * 162 pledged to give up taxis These might not seem like much; but little changes like this can make a real difference
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These questions apply for all kinds of technology decisions including hardware, software, or even social media and social networking technologies. Business people do not want to spend money on unnecessary or unhelpful technology, yet are often ill advised when they make technology acquisitions or expenditure. I often see businesses, both
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I'm speaking at the National Growth Summit 2010 in Sydney this week about engagement marketing and running a workshop on Technology to drive Growth. The line-up includes a number of international luminaries along with local experts, gurus and knowledgeable people such as: Mick Liubinskas, Stephen Collins, Mike Walsh
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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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Just travelled back from Melbourne and sat next to an extremely spry gentleman of 71 years who spent the entire trip reading on his Kindle . He told me how much he loved this new way of reading. That it can hold 1500 books and he only recharges it infrequently, less
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Sound finances give women true freedom of choice, it is the key to giving women options in life. When @fibendall approached me about supporting the ANZ Bank's Febusave campaign I was interested because I have first hand experience of the challenges raised by poor money management skills. I
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Getting women to think about their finances, to plan and save more is important. The better control we have over our finances the more choices we have in life. Why not click the badge below and join us for Febusave?
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Each year, instead of making new year resolutions, I pick a theme for the year. That way when I get sidetracked (as often happens) I can simply return to the theme. Also with a theme there are often many different things I can do to support it. For 2009 my
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Recently I had the honour of joining Mark Pesce & Ross Dawson on Mark Jones' podcast The Scoop where we discussed the The future of the Web. It was a fascinating discussion - so many interesting ideas to consider: What happens when our real and virtual worlds collide? And
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Here's a little quote from one of my Gen Y friends on my Facebook wall today: "I won't ever pay for normal news content ever again full stop. If i wanted to subscribe to something niche likes financial markets pieces etc, then potentially yes, but