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I had the pleasure of speaking, along with Karen Ganschow from Telstra, at the FITT CeBIT lunch today in Sydney. We had a great turnout and there were even a few men in attendance. It's FITT's 20th anniversary this year - a big milestone for a
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I'll be talking about social networking from a career perspective at the FITT lunch on 13 May in Sydney. This is very topical now with the global financial crisis starting to hit Australia. Our personal & business networks will be critical, not only for staying in touch with
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I'll be talking about social networking from a career perspective at the FITT lunch on 13 May in Sydney. This is very topical now with the global financial crisis starting to hit Australia. Our personal & business networks will be critical, not only for staying in touch with
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In an earlier generation all computer networks were for business or the military. That is, they were point-to-point connections between large organisations and were vastly expensive to setup and run. But the invention of TCP/IP and the modern internet changed all that. Now networks are between ordinary people using
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Neerav Bhatt did an interesting post about Encyclopedia Britannica, saying: Organisations in the information industry such as Book Publishers and Libraries would do well to learn from Encyclopedia Britannica’s precipitous fall from grace. Formerly a powerful company that could demand and receive large payments for access to it’s
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One of Australia's national pastimes is Telstra bashing - and heaven knows even I've indulged a time or two. But still credit where credit is due. They have been engaging in social media and social networking for a while now and I've come to
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We are rapidly moving away from the old impersonal world of broadcast media. This has important implications for getting our messages out to people. It means that we need to discover the power of the personal. One person who really got this - or at least whose advisers got it
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We had interesting discussions about many things last night at the ACS meeting in Wollongong. But one discussion in particular - about the use of social networking platforms in the office - really helped to clarify my position. I am getting heartily sick of the debate about whether 'young&
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A long time ago I confessed to @SilkCharm that I did not get Twitter and was about to abandon it. But at her urging I persisted with the darn thing. Then quite quickly there were a whole bunch of people following me, and it became necessary to develop a set