social computing & social media
As part of Social Media Week Sydney 2014 I was honoured to host a panel discussion about the Politics of Social. The panel made for a lively and interesting chat - wish we could have had more time as there was much more to discuss! Panel Members * Ariadne Vromen -
social computing & social media
Sky News Social Media Editor John Bergin, Moore's Cloud Director Kate Carruthers and Online Opinion Chief Editor Graham Young discuss the week in politics and social media.
civil society
The demise of a 168 year old (and reportedly profitable) newspaper in Britain called the News of the World (NoTW) gives us some valuable insights on a number of levels. Every day over the past few weeks we have been gobsmacked by the revelations about NoTW and assume nothing could
social computing & social media
When I checked on a major search engine the other day there were 247,000,000 results for the term "content is king". Many people have said it to me over the past few years, and I admit to having said it myself on occasion. It seems that
startups
If you've got time it's worth taking some of it to watch this interview with Jason and Gary. Jason Calacanis, himself a serial entrepreneur, is a great supporter of startups with his LAUNCH Conference. Gary Vaynerchuk is a well known entrepreneur who built up his family
civil society
I was completely appalled to hear how a well known radio personality in Sydney spoke to the Prime Minister of Australia on air. The details are outlined well by Barrie Cassidy on The Drum in Liar, liar, shock jocks on fire; and you can listen to the entire interview here.
social computing & social media
I'm in Brisbane today attending the Smart Services CRC Conference. Following are slides from my presentation earlier today. Tweets from attendees are under the hashtag #smartservicescrc in case you're curious. Leadership and the Digital Revolution
future
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
ideas
We are currently planning the next Social Innovation BarCamp for 6 Nov 2010 in Sydney and I've just written a post about it called 4 Principles and 2 Laws of Social Innovation BarCamp. Thinking about the state of conferences over the past few years I have become enamoured
ideas
I've been observing the discourse in the mainstream and social media worlds about the 'outing' of the blogger Grog's Gamut - the so-called #groggate. Craig Thomler has made an excellent aggregation of the various sources of comment. There were two things that really irritated
ideas
Burson-Marsteller has just realased a study on Message Gap Analysis where they investigate the cut through of corporate messaging to mainstream media. Their research indicates some scary results: "... a 48% gap between the messages a company communicates and the message conveyed by the media. The study also found that
ideas
Because, along with the witty and intelligent @neerav @smurray38 @grogsgamut @paulwallbank, I shall be in Canberra blogging and tweeting about Media140 Oz Politics. This event is on Thursday 23 September 2010. There's a fascinating line up of speakers and I'm expecting that my brain will be