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Training, Learning and Education

"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 at

Offensive application behaviour in Facebook

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 is

High tea #STUB

.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

Power limits the real growth of new technology

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

Traditional Media v. New Media Punch Up at #pubcamp Sydney

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 Bail (Fairfax)

Grass roots change in the enterprise

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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Fundamentals Matter for Web 2.0 Business Cases

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 recent

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