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This year has been one of great personal challenges for me and my family. To have made it to the end of the year with all of us still on deck is a good feeling. 2009 brought home to me how truly important continued good health is, and how lucky
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2009 ranks as both the year that social media went mainstream and as the year that we saw a seismic shift in the comfortable world of traditional media. Some evidence of the former is the fact that Dell made $6.5 million in direct sales via Twitter. Further evidence is
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There are three areas that are relevant to both our society in general and to us as educators in particular. They are the: 1. overall landscape in which we are operating; 2. social implications of the changes being driven by technology and how we are using it; and 3. changing
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I really enjoyed the opportunity to present to the TAFE teachers of the Western Sydney Insititute recently about social computing and its implications for education. Slides follow and more detailed notes will be posted shortly. Social & Learning Implications http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=sociallearningimplications-091215185321-phpapp01&stripped_
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One thing that has amazed me over the years is how some people are natural connectors. It is no surprise that many of those folks have ended up on Twitter. Here’s a few amazing people connectors that I follow on Twitter: @hollingsworth - one of the mainstays of Sydney
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In late November I spoke at Startup BarCamp in Sydney. The topic was about the kind of personal trade-offs & choices we make when choosing to work in a startup. These choices are not always immediately obvious when you go into a startup. However, the number of broken relationships and
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I spoke at Ross Dawson's SME Technology Summit last week. Here are my slides & some brief thoughts about social media for business: Social Media For Business 2009http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=socialmediaforbusinesssmetech2009-091130163400-phpapp01&stripped_title=social-media-for-business-2009 View more presentations from Kate Carruthers.
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The fast-approaching holiday season is a great time to update your IT systems while everything's quiet. I got to have a chat with Stilgherrian in this week's Patch Monday. This podcast has some nifty suggestions from Harold Melnick, who's Microsoft's senior product
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This is a very thought provoking TED talk from Philip Zimbardo. He's famous for the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment. Think about how you would react in certain situations (e.g. Abu Ghraib) - how easy it is to act in ways you might regret later? Hero or villain