Lean times favour innovation
Kate Carruthers Companies struggle with how to innovate when their existing business is stable or growing. There is often a perception that innovation requires a lot of investment. However, it has been…
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Transparency in business – so what?
This coming Thursday, 25 March, many folks will be attending the Social Business Summit in Sydney. I will be on a panel discussing Transparency in Business – Risky or Essential?.…
My dog and her new food
My dog T-dog* is a somewhat bolshie little beast and she does not like it when I travel away from home overnight (I’ll come back to this fact later). Recently…
7 questions to ask re new technology for your business
These questions apply for all kinds of technology decisions including hardware, software, or even social media and social networking technologies. Business people do not want to spend money on unnecessary…
2010 Blog theme – women in …
I’ve been thinking about having an overarching theme for my blog this year and have finally decided on women in … that is women who are doing interesting things like…
Kindling a Revolution
Just travelled back from Melbourne and sat next to an extremely spry gentleman of 71 years who spent the entire trip reading on his Kindle. He told me how much…
Social media, web 2.0 and implications for education
There are three areas that are relevant to both our society in general and to us as educators in particular. They are the: overall landscape in which we are operating;…
Social computing and its implications for education
I really enjoyed the opportunity to present to the TAFE teachers of the Western Sydney Insititute recently about social computing and its implications for education. Slides follow and more detailed…
Future of the Web | The Scoop
Recently I had the honour of joining Mark Pesce & Ross Dawson on Mark Jones’ podcast The Scoop where we discussed the The future of the Web. It was a…
Startup Barcamp Sydney Nov 2009
Startup Barcamp Sydney was on yesterday and I managed to drop in. It was held at one of my favourite venues for unconferences – ATP Innovations– and it might possibly…