TAFE Showcase – some cool use of technology in education
Kate Carruthers I love going along to the TAFE NSW Western Sydney Institute Showcases because they always have demonstrations of innovative uses of technology. It is great to hear practising teachers share…
social media
Time to drop the social and the media from our lexicon?
I was reading the article If Every Company is a Media Company…Then Who Owns Social Media? after seeing a Twitter conversation between @DesWalsh and @Trib. The article author, Don Bulmer,…
Risk management and real communication
I was reading a post by Dave Snowden that really got me thinking. In his post, From oratory to the soundbite, he discusses the changes in how our politicians engage…
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?.…
Why I’m probably not a social media expert and neither are you
Over the past few years a plethora of Social Media Experts* have cropped up and their tweets, posts, podcasts etc serve up a cacophony of advice and pontification. Here’s a…
Engagement Marketing In The Age Of Web 2.0
Here are the slides from my presentation at the National Growth Summit in Sydney today. Engagement Marketing In The Age Of Web 2http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=engagementmarketingintheageofweb2final2-100217160839-phpapp01&stripped_title=engagement-marketing-in-the-age-of-web-2 View more presentations from Kate Carruthers.
National Growth Summit 2010
I’m speaking at the National Growth Summit 2010 in Sydney this week about engagement marketing and running a workshop on Technology to drive Growth. The line-up includes a number of…
5 reasons crowdsourcing is stupid
Crowdsourcing is very trendy these days and is touted as the answer to many of the ills of poor design and the need to reduce costs. In these cash strapped…
Social media 2009 and beyond
2009 ranks as both the year that social media went mainstream and as the year that we saw a seismic shift in the comfortable world of traditional media. Some evidence…
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: Landscape Before we leap into a look…