Privacy! Who the hell ever had privacy?
Kate Carruthers One question that I am often asked when speaking to groups about the digital revolution is “what about privacy?” This is usually in relation to social media and social networking.…
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Rethinking organisations: the digital revolution, social and convergence
An interesting question came up last Friday in a discussion with a group of Marketing and Communications folks from McDonald’s. It was about how social media might be situated and…
What matters?
A recent discovery for me is McKinsey & Company’s new site What Matters. It is a thought provoking question and it is good to see it being tackled by McKinsey…
Hard work! Aligning organisational values and behaviour
Alignment of articulated and enacted values in business The issue of how well an organisation’s values align between what they say they are and what they actually do in practise…
Operating systems are merely hygeine factors …
Many people in the IT industry don’t realise that operating systems are not important to ordinary folks. We don’t want to be bothered with things that live under the surface…
Sydney’s inaugural Social Innovation BarCamp #sibsyd
Sydney’s inaugural Social Innovation BarCamp went well yesterday. The day kicked off with an opening talk by the Hon. Bob Carr, who kindly gave his time to support this event.…
It’s real people and real communications
This past week I spoke at the Sydney session of the International Customer Service Professionals (ICSP) on the topic of How can Social Media benefit our business? along with several…
Some thoughts on women, management & work #wmwc
I’m lucky enough to be attending the Women, Management and Work Conference in Sydney today. There is a great turnout, with many familiar names and faces from around Australia. So…
OMG the Onion is right about social networking – IMHO it changes nothing yet it changes everything
This post was inspired by a humorous post on The Onion, titled: “New Social Networking Site Changing The Way Oh, Christ, Forget It: Let Someone Else Report On This Bullshit”…
The digital revolution is not going away
The following post is from a talk I gave at the Gov 2.0 lunch on Monday 31 May 2010 at Parliament House in Canberra. The internet is a strange beast;…