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Because I am a Girl
There are a lot of women who don't like to be called a girl. It's their choice. I don't mind it and have even been known to refer to myself as a girl - usually as a geek girl. The interesting thing here in
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Why things don't change - or the tyranny of 'THEM'
Over the years I worked as a senior manager in large organisations and, more recently, as an educator and business coach for senior managers across private and government organisations. A fascinating phenomenon that comes up in all of those places is, what I've come to call, "the
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Warning: I'm probably going to tweet a fair bit about #OzPol & #media140 this coming week
Because, along with the witty and intelligent @neerav @smurray38 @grogsgamut @paulwallbank, I shall be in Canberra blogging and tweeting about Media140 Oz Politics. This event is on Thursday 23 September 2010. There's a fascinating line up of speakers and I'm expecting that my brain will be
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Privacy! Who the hell ever had privacy?
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. Privacy comes from the Latin word privatus: Roman lawLatinadjectiveprivatuspublicusRoman people (populus Romanus)Wikipedia This question fascinates me. Privacy
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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 used differently depending upon whether you approached it from either a Marketing or a Communications team perspective. Also
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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 and their interesting array of authors. The things that matter change if we are considering big or small
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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 was illustrated very graphically by a large software company this past week. It also shows how difficult it
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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 of our devices. This is one of the reasons Apple has made such inroads in recent
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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. Throughout the day we had some amazing networking and discussion sessions focused on creating sustainable futures and directing
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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 other well known professionals (@carolskyring, @jasonealey , @CatrionaPollard). It is always interesting to see how business people - whose real jobs
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Filesharing: copyright has always been a bit broken but we never noticed
I was chatting to someone at a party on Saturday night about copyright. The gentleman I was chatting with was strongly in favour of strict enforcement of copyright. He was advocating fining people who share copyright material online. It got me thinking. Once you consider the problem in offline terms
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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 far there has been an impressive line-up of speakers. Yet these impressive speakers each talked about the issues