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I have been out visiting regional areas in NSW and talking to small business owners about their websites, online marketing, social media and social networking recently. It has really clarified three things I think a website needs to tell a new visitor within the first few seconds: 1. who you
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"Press on: nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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There is plenty of stuff in the world overall, it's just distributed unevenly. And poverty is around us even in rich countries like Australia. A real question for those of us living comfortable lives is what can we do to make the world a better place? Now I&
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Lots of sites are starting to dish out ideas about how to handle losing your job. This one in the Washington Post is a good example, suggesting that the best thing to do is to wait until you've lost a job and then "Start the climb back
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I don't know the provenance of this fable, but it does illustrate some key differences between Australia and other parts of the world ... The Squirrel and The Grasshopper REST OF THE WORLD VERSION The squirrel works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building and improving his
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For a while now I've been uncomfortable with the direction of much of the stuff referred to as web 2.0. It seems to be full of amusing trifles that don't offer any real substance in terms of sustainable business models. For example, while I dearly
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"Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy." -- Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
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I'm doing some research on Enterprise 2.0 and need your help. You can help by answering a brief online survey. Click Here to take survey It would be very helpful if you could complete this online survey and also ask your friends and colleagues to as well.
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For those folks who don't think social networks are real life ... One of my Twitter buddies, @mspecht, has been very brave and open, sharing about his personal experience of depression that led him to take some positive action. He set up Blue Day 2008 and asked people to
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"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where
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I've been reading the new George Soros book, The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means . While Soros takes his usual pessimistic view he does have some interesting insights into the causes and consequences of the current credit crisis. Interestingly some
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A key myth of modern business is that of centralized control in general and of brands, messages and media in particular. In the past, while it was possible for ordinary consumers to hijack brands and messages, it was too hard, time-consuming and expensive for anyone to bother. Thus companies and