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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 of the former is the fact that Dell made $6.5 million in direct sales via Twitter. Further evidence is
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There are three areas that are relevant to both our society in general and to us as educators in particular. They are the: 1. overall landscape in which we are operating; 2. social implications of the changes being driven by technology and how we are using it; and 3. changing
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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 notes will be posted shortly. Social & Learning Implications http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=sociallearningimplications-091215185321-phpapp01&stripped_
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I spoke at Ross Dawson's SME Technology Summit last week. Here are my slides & some brief thoughts about social media for business: Social Media For Business 2009http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=socialmediaforbusinesssmetech2009-091130163400-phpapp01&stripped_title=social-media-for-business-2009 View more presentations from Kate Carruthers.
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I had the pleasure of running into Jim Shomos the other night & he was telling me about his latest project - Mordy Koots. This project is amazing in the way that it brings together so many of the threads of film, gaming, web and social computing. Lots of the
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Really looking forward to speaking at the SME Technology Summit by The Insight Exchange on 1 December 2009. There's lots of interesting speakers: * Tim Pethick - Entrepreneur & Founder, Nudie * Mark Pesce - Inventor, Writer, Educator, Futurist * WilliePang - Managing Director, Search Marketing, Yahoo! Australia * Suzi Dafnis -
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Joel Postman argues that A Blog is a Better Social Media Hub Than Twitter. I tend to agree, especially from a business perspective. His post got me thinking about the critical elements for a business social media toolkit. 1) A Blog or a Website (it's the same thing
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Have been chatting online with Evan from Sency.com and decided to experiment with his new gadget using the Media140 Twitter feed: http://www.sency.com/scroll.php?bgcolor=white&textcolor=black&h=300&w=200&q=media140&border=1&borderstyle=solid&bordercolor=
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The Media 140 Conference in Sydney has offered a vast amount of food for thought my brain is buzzing with ideas, issues and concerns. The first thing that struck me was the level of fear and fear-mongering by some of the print journalists on day one. For example in the
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I attended the afternoon sessions for day one of the Media 140 conference in Sydney today as a live blogger/twitterer and have been consolidating my thoughts. Here's a summary of the speakers that resonated for me in the afternoon sessions: Julie Posetti (a.k.a. @julie_posetti)
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An email for a conference arrived the other day, and it enticed me with the tag line: Learning how to leverage Web 2.0 and Social Media sites to market your brand and control your message This got me wondering can brands really control their message using social media? One
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As a humble member of various social networks including Twitter it never fails to amaze me how lame some businesses are in their approach. I don't know what is happening inside the brains of the people behind this behaviour on behalf of companies. But it is like they&