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In recent times there has been talk in the press about the dangers and evils of social networking technology (Facebook, Myspace, etc. ) in the workplace. Many commentators voice concerns about employees wasting time at work. In a recent AustralianIT article Nick Ingelbrecht from Gartner is quoted saying "social networking
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"I Hear and I Forget, I See and I Learn, I Do and I Understand" - Confucius In recent times I've been involved in both delivery and receipt of education and training at tertiary and vocational levels. On the delivery side, lecturing to postgraduate accounting students
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This image shows yet another offensive way of interacting with people who do not want to add your application in Facebook. Here the application still wants you to log in merely so it can then never annoy you again. It is just plain annoying - this kind of application rudeness
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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } High tea STUB, originally uploaded by kate.carruthers. Some of the @STUB (a.k.a. Sydney Twitter Underground Brigade) met for high tea at the Queen Victoria Building in Sydney yesterday. It was
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Every home in the developed world has a plethora of devices and gadgets being recharged. Old houses don't even have sufficient power outlets to manage the demand. That is why we really need ways to recharge all our equipment without plugging it into a power outlet on the
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It was very interesting to see the panel discussion at #pubcamp Sydney last week - the topic was "How media companies are dealing with the challenges of this new world - including traditional media, online media and hybrid ventures," the moderator: Mark Jones (Filtered Media); and panelists: Kathy
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I love the whole web 2.0 philosophy and the idea that we can break down organisational barriers and make workplaces better places for people to create and innovate. But an earlier series of comments by Nick Gonios got me thinking how this kind of grass roots change can occur
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Explanatory note - this post is from the perspective of implementing web 2.0 within an enterprise. As per Nick Gonios' very good suggestion in the comments below, if you doing it yourself as a startup just go for it (check out his comment for the details). At a
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I wonder which communication tools people prefer: http://www.polldaddy.com/poll.swf By Carruthers via Aide-mémoire http://w.sharethis.com/widget/?tabs=web%2Cemail&charset=utf-8&services=facebook%2Cdigg%2Cstumbleupon%2Cdelicious%2Creddit%2Cblinklist%2Cnewsvine%2Cfurl%2Ctailrank%2Cmagnolia&style=rotate&publisher=91b467b0-fcb3-4e42-95e0-1f04ad0c9be9
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One interesting thing about teaching accounting students at the university is that I get to ask them what they think about various web trends that I follow. It's nothing formal, more of a straw poll or temperature check. But it still helps me to understand a more mainstream
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Sometimes when you're having a bad day the only recourse is Ceiling Cat: Our Cat, who art in ceiling, Hallowed be thy LOLs. Thy cheezeburger come. Thy wants be done, On floor as it is in ceiling. Give us this day our daily Noms. And forgive us our
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Late last year Hitwise reported that social networking internet traffic surpassed email service internet traffic in the UK. This trend was also noted in Asia. This is a signifier of a shift in the role of online social networks, and ordinary people are increasingly finding utility in social networks. This