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Let's look at a few facts about the world today from a social computing perspective. Social computing has gone mainstream. When you consider the sheer number of people who are actively participating in social media and social networking every day it is no longer the early adopter. When
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We are often exhorted to be passionate about things, especially at work. But I'm not sure that is really what we need in the modern workplace. Passion has become a synonym for other words that are potentially more accurate. Passion is a very excitable emotion. It narrows the
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One of Australia's national pastimes is Telstra bashing - and heaven knows even I've indulged a time or two. But still credit where credit is due. They have been engaging in social media and social networking for a while now and I've come to
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It is true that there is nothing new under the sun (Ecc 1:9) and for those of us old enough to remember computer bureaux the move the cloud computing is an amusing 'back to the future' moment. As Ambrose Bierce said: "There is nothing new under
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We are rapidly moving away from the old impersonal world of broadcast media. This has important implications for getting our messages out to people. It means that we need to discover the power of the personal. One person who really got this - or at least whose advisers got it
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The democratization of software that has occurred with the development of social computing raises some important issues about IT governance. When we are dealing with consumer to consumer applications like Facebook or YouTube issues of governance are not that significant. That is, where netizens are connecting with each other and
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The democratization of software that has occurred with the development of social computing raises some important issues about IT governance. When we are dealing with consumer to consumer applications like Facebook or YouTube issues of governance are not that significant. That is, where netizens are connecting with each other and
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Finally finished installing IE8 on all our PCs at home this morning. I've been using it on my own machine for a few weeks now. I like it and have even made it the default browser for my PC. My favourite new feature is the Accelerators. Must note
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Just back from the first Girl Geek Dinner Sydney for 2009, kindly hosted by Google at their funky new offices down near the water in Pyrmont. Damana - the force of nature who organises these great events - had asked me to do a lightning talk at the event. Sometimes
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This is a term I've used for a while now and never really defined. It is probably worth discussing as it has come to form an important part of my thinking. Starting with democracy in its ancient Greek meaning of popular government, or government by the people -
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"Innovation always comes unexpectedly & from the periphery." - Source: Me Once I see an innovation it always seems obvious - except that it was not obvious until I saw it. The iPhone is a great example of this - sure it is currently less than 5% of
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"Innovation always comes unexpectedly & from the periphery." - Source: Me Once I see an innovation it always seems obvious - except that it was not obvious until I saw it. The iPhone is a great example of this - sure it is currently less than 5% of