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It's Caturday & teh big cats are playing
This video is from Halloween but it's nice to watch the various cats play with their pumpkins:
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New initiative: the Digital Revolution and Government #gov2 #gov2au
One of my great passions is the digital revolution and how it is affecting society. A key area of our life that the digital revolution is changing is government and governance. Revolutionary thinkers like Clay Shirky and others have even posited the notion of a kind of digital direct democracy.
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The starship, Enterprise: social business - opportunity and risk
1. Navigating the tangled web of Enterprise 2.0 enabled platforms is indeed an opportunity "to explore strange new worlds" in business... Enterprise 2.0 has been defined as "the application of Web 2.0 technologies to workers using network software within an organisation or business"
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Sorry but Caturday is replaced by Otterday kthxbai
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Success but on whose terms? What about personal brands and character?
There is so much pressure on people these days to be successful. And I do not think we are encouraged to stop and think what success actually means for each of us and for society in general. Many of us seem to be on a treadmill. Go to school, get
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Headshift event: Social Business Design - Pathways to Success on 23/11 in Sydney
The Headshift team is running a short event on the 23rd November, here in Sydney: A social business is one where we use the opportunities presented by new technologies to deliver business value - to reduce costs, increase effectiveness or mitigate risks. Come along to this presentation to discuss a
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The future of shopping is social
These are some thoughts that I presented at the AMP Social Media Cafe in Sydney on 11 November 2010, the slides and references follow below. The future of shopping is social. But that is nothing new – shopping has always been social. The difference is that now we are seeing social
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Remembering 11-11
Who will remember, passing through this Gate, The unheroic Dead who fed the guns? Who shall absolve the foulness of their fate,— Those doomed, conscripted, unvictorious ones? Crudely renewed, the Salient holds its own. Paid are its dim defenders by this pomp; Paid, with a pile of peace-complacent stone, The
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If bad is stronger than good what can we do about it?
I've been reading an old article that remains extremely interesting - it is an academic paper dating back to 2001 titled Bad Is Stronger Than Good. The authors note that: ... Bad impressions and bad stereotypes are quicker to form and more resistant to disconfirmation than good ones. "
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More Maru is never enough - happy Caturday
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Big Banks: brands, emotion and reality
It has been fascinating to watch the consumer and media response to the recent increase of interest rates above the Reserve Bank rate by the Commonwealth Bank. Many have expressed their opinion that the Commonwealth Bank is destroying its brand by such a callous action. But this view ignores the
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Maru is the perfect Caturday choice...
I realised that I've never posted any of Maru's work for Caturday,l and that means some people might not know of his artistry.