The business of social business
Kate Carruthers Social business is the new trend following on from Enterprise 2.0 – but underlying it is an essential conflict between two different styles of doing business. The conflict is between…
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My Geek Origin story, what’s your story?
This post was inspired by Michael Kordahi, well known to many as @delic8genius, who put out a call encouraging to geeks to share their geek origin stories. My geek origin…
Women having fun, expressing their …
A few days ago I noticed the following tweet and clicked on the accompanying link. The image below was at the other end of the link: Source: Bronwen Clune –…
Oz Girl Develop IT 2011 #ozgdi
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Social Media – the US Army gets it
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LeWeb 2010 Wrap up
I rather suspect that some of the locals regard LeWeb as a kind of blowsy aunt who arrives in whirl, talks too loudly, drinks a bit too much, pinches their…
LeWeb 2010 Paris – day 1
The day started out rainy and grey, then turned snowy and grey and then ended with a cocktail reception in the Paris town hall. For the folks where were not…
Leadership and the Digital Revolution
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.…
The starship, Enterprise: social business – opportunity and risk
Navigating the tangled web of Enterprise 2.0 enabled platforms is indeed an opportunity “to explore strange new worlds” in business… Enterprise 2.0 has been defined as “the application of Web…