National Growth Summit 2010
Kate Carruthers 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…
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Kindling a Revolution
Just travelled back from Melbourne and sat next to an extremely spry gentleman of 71 years who spent the entire trip reading on his Kindle. He told me how much…
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…
Talk about barriers to entry!
A while back I got an invitation to join a new social network 434U & was amazed at the barriers to entry & the onerous rules for participation. It’s a…
Social Media and Business | SME Technology Conference
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…
Holiday IT to-do lists | Patch Monday via @stilgherrian
The fast-approaching holiday season is a great time to update your IT systems while everything’s quiet. I got to have a chat with Stilgherrian in this week’s Patch Monday. This…
Hero or monster it all comes down to choices
This is a very thought provoking TED talk from Philip Zimbardo. He’s famous for the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment. Think about how you would react in certain situations (e.g. Abu…
Future of the Web | The Scoop
Recently I had the honour of joining Mark Pesce & Ross Dawson on Mark Jones’ podcast The Scoop where we discussed the The future of the Web. It was a…
Citizens doing it for themselves
Recently, in the UK city of Birmingham, some people were unhappy with their local Council’s new £2.8 million website. Citizens took matters into their own hands and created their own…
Startup Barcamp Sydney Nov 2009
Startup Barcamp Sydney was on yesterday and I managed to drop in. It was held at one of my favourite venues for unconferences – ATP Innovations– and it might possibly…