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Had an interesting conversation with Juan Mann today in Sydney (accompanied by free hugs, of course). We discussed free hugs, free stuff in general and it made me conscious of how many offers for free stuff that we receive that are actually not free. Instead, they are usually designed to
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Have been thinking and talking to lots of people about Enterprise 2.0 recently and came across an interesting blog by some people at Oracle in Australia. Their blog - The Red Room - is a great example of grass roots corporate blogging to reach out to stakeholders. It is
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A conversation with Simon Sharwood at Tech.Ed Sydney regarding his recent article on small business technology really helped to crystallise some thinking for me. Because most of my working life has been inside large organisations like GE, AMP, Citigroup or government the problems of technology pricing had never really
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I have been watching the iPhone clutching hordes of my acquaintance with their pretty new phones and wondering if that was the answer for me. But something stopped me from queueing up to collect my iPhone overnight in the winter cold with my buddies. It was the thought that my
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I have learned to hate many mobile phones over the past few years. They have promised much but delivered little of that promise. They often even failed to deliver on the basic promise of making telephone calls reliably. Sony Ericsson invented a really complex and multi-layered menu system that I
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You can attend Web 2.0 Executive Bootcamp at Web Directions South at a bargain price (according to my buddy @trib). Register here and quote the discount code - W2BAL - with this deal you're getting a hefty discount to the normal price. BTW, Web Directions South is
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We are seeing a fluidity in the way techies interact with different technologies today. This topic came up in a conversation with @ceibner at Microsoft Tech Ed earlier today. In the past people focused on a very narrow (often proprietary) technology stack, such as Java or .NET. However, now with
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Had some fun today with @ceibner and @alegrya at Microsoft TechEd, also ran into @rog42 and @nickhodge - a few pics are up on Flickr Also was on panel session for high school students at TechEd this morning with @nazzer and Dorothea and Ms Megabyte talking about ICT careers for
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Download r285135_1214670.mp3 Had a slightly surreal indoor rockclimbing experience in Sydney this week when a few friends and I were interviewed for a vox pop on the ABC Insiders program this week, it was our 2 minutes of fame (podcast here) John Robens & Colin Atkinson
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It's not the technology that is the problem with adoption and implementation of enterprise 2.0, rather is the people, culture and habits we have built up in the workplace. For years we have imposed technology on the enterprise from the top down with little dialogue and engagement
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Another fun event with some of the @STUB (Sydney Twitter Underground Brigade) crowd. Suspect division into teams on gender lines led to spectacular EPIC fail where both teams got zero points. Nevertheless can recommend the Wednesday night trivia at the Marlborough Hotel (aka the Marly) in Newtown. The place has
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Chatting with Mark Jones, Paul McKeon and Frank Eliason on The Scoop podcast this morning about corporate Twitter. It was fun to talk with these folks and have a chance to think about Twitter in a corporate context. Frank described Twitter as "instant messaging gone mad", which is