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There was a tale in the news in 2008 of a disgruntled city IT worker who effectively blocked all access to the city network. Apparently the network continued to function but he refused to hand over the passwords to management so they could administer it. The story first first came
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Back in November 2008, before the real seriousness of the global financial situation had become apparent, I attended a Retail Financial Services Panel Discussion & Luncheon in Sydney. The topics proposed for the panel includes: * Competition and customer acquisition amid the credit crisis * Group strategy post-credit crisis - what will
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Dr. Saul Griffith shares on Pop Tech! how we can reduce our lifetime energy usage. One key idea is making things last longer. He also shows Wattzon.com, a free online tool anyone can use to gain a deep understanding of their total energy footprint - and how to reduce
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Here in this TED talk Kevin Kelly talks about the evolution of technology. Kevin is one of my favourite thinkers about technology and our relationship to us. Here he asks "what does technology want from us?" http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf http://w.sharethis.
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For anyone who's into human resources, social media and technology issues you need to know that my buddy, Michael Specht, is running the HR Futures Conference in Melbourne on 26 February 2009. It's a one day event that will bring together speakers covering HR, Recruiting and
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I have been cogitating - always a dangerous thing to do. The subject is safety. In the past safety was a rare and precious commodity. For example, until the advent of the police force in England it was not safe to travel on the highways without armed guards & people
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The question of whether or not people of our time are resilient enough to deal with adversity like previous generations was a topic of discussion at one of the Girl Geek Dinner's last year. It reminded me to dig out these favourite quotations. "We are what we
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Here in a TED talk Susan Blackmore discusses how humanity has spawned a new kind of meme. She argues for the teme, which spreads itself via technology, and invents ways to keep itself alive. This is a very provocative argument and is worth a look. http://video.ted.com/assets/
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All those top 50 or top 100 Twitter user lists that enumerate the so-called Twitterati sort of annoy me. In fact, they annoy me so much that, a while back, I created Yet Another Twitter Top 100 List . How do you get on this list? You just add yourself and
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I've been a big fan of telling as many people as possible about my goals so it is harder for me to back out of them. Also getting people to join in with me is very helpful. It is encouraging when there is more than one person working
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When I first started to use Twitter there was a small and fairly tight knit group that I followed and who followed me back. It really felt like a community and there was a sense of intimacy. The feeling of intimacy was supported by meeting with a lot of these