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Yeah it's Caturday
Here's a fascinating bit of interspecies communication (or miscommunication?) [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULlsVcW5bRI&w=445&h=364]
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Doggie Rescue Needs Help
DoggieRescue.com is a registered NO-Kill animal rescue charity in Sydney. But they receive no government funding and they need help to stay open. DoggieRescue is committed to rescuing neglected, abused and abandoned dogs from the death rows of Sydney pounds and finding them loving homes. I've just
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Rabbits, focus & flexibility
At Growthtown last week I gave a brief talk on focus and flexibility and a key idea that came up was that of rabbits. Startups need balance - but it is hard to balance focus on competing needs, lack of resources, maintaining cashflow momentum, while staying flexible to respond to
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Balancing focus & growth as you grow.
Here are the slides that I did not use for my talk at Growthtown earlier in the week - but they do give a flavour of what I actually drew on a whiteboard. Balancing Focus & Flexibility As You Growhttp://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=balancingfocusflexibilityasyougrow-090404092403-phpapp01&stripped_
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Ahhhh... Caturday
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Collaboration, collective creation & getting things done
With their un-organised approach to management and decision making Quakers are the poster children for collaboration, collective creation and getting things done. Quakers do not have a formal hierarchy and have no single person in control of their society. It is an approach to getting things done that aligns to
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Social networking in the office
We had interesting discussions about many things last night at the ACS meeting in Wollongong. But one discussion in particular - about the use of social networking platforms in the office - really helped to clarify my position. I am getting heartily sick of the debate about whether 'young&
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BarCamp, Community & New Ways
Having recently seen the film, I'm now reading the comic novel Watchmen . It is the kind of fiction that really gets you thinking about many things. A great quote from the book is: The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... The solution
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so too is caturday!
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Ada Lovelace Day
March 24 is Ada Lovelace Day - and many will ask who was Ada? Ada Lovelace was one of the world's first computer programmers, and one of the first people to see computers as more than just a machine for doing sums. She was born in 1815, the
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Nick Hodge, me & Ada Lovelace Day
To celebrate Ada Lovelace Day on 24 March 2009, Nick Hodge has kindly invited me to participate in his show. More details over at Nick's blog. Lord knows what we're going to talk about - but you can guarantee that between the two of us it
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Hypertext to hyperconnectivity
The invention of hypertext and its implementation in the form of the World Wide Web was a revolution akin to the creation of the modern printing press. We are still seeing the reverberations of this revolution in many spheres of life. With the implementation of the Gutenberg printing press back