1 more sleep until Social Innovation BarCamp #sibsyd
Kate Carruthers After many weeks of planning with my co-conspirators Selena Griffith, Michelle Williams and Kim Chen we are finally on the eve of the second Social Innovation BarCamp. This venture was…
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Blog action day 2010 – theme is water
Today is Blog Action Day 2010 and the theme is water. Many people are without access to this most basic of human needs. In Australia we need to find ways…
Public discourse and private citizens – how free is freedom of speech? #groggate
A recent disclosure that a Federal public servant has been blogging about matters political in his personal time has come to be referred amongst Australian journalists and bloggers alike as…
Online social network revolution
I’m not sure that most people have realised yet, but social networks are creating a revolutionary change in the way we interact with other people. And they are revolutionary in…
Online social network revolution
I’m not sure that most people have realised yet, but social networks are creating a revolutionary change in the way we interact with other people. And they are revolutionary in…
Hypertext to hyperconnectivity
The invention of hypertext and its implementation in the form of the World Wide Web was a revolution akin to the creation of the modern printing press. We are still…
Social media rules of engagement
Back in the old days at GE (pre GFC) we were taught that all business ideas or problems should be considered from the “outside-in” or from the customer’s point of…
Social networking & social norms
New technology often seems to take a while for us to work out how to fit new cultural practices around it. I suspect that social networking fits the norm in…
Social networking & social norms
New technology often seems to take a while for us to work out how to fit new cultural practices around it. I suspect that social networking fits the norm in…
LIVE 8 – Why bother?
On the Live 8 website it states that: “Every single day, 30,000 children die, needlessly, of extreme poverty. On July 6th, we finally have the opportunity to stop that shameful…