ideas
One of the social events that are part of the Connecting Up 09 conference is a Women in IT Brunch at which Jody Mahoney (Vice President, Business Development, at the Anita Borg Foundation) is the guest speaker. For the uninitiated, the Anita Borg Institute was founded in 1997 by renowned
ideas
Just back from the first Girl Geek Dinner Sydney for 2009, kindly hosted by Google at their funky new offices down near the water in Pyrmont. Damana - the force of nature who organises these great events - had asked me to do a lightning talk at the event. Sometimes
ideas
- some more thoughts following on from the Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum. Here is my list of the top 10 enablers for Enterprise 2.0 - this is not an exhaustive list merely my notes based on sessions at the forum and various conversations with participants. One thing that
ideas
In recent days I have been going out to various ICT industry functions in Sydney. Two of the speakers stood out from the rest. The first was Robyn Henderson who spoke at the FITT networking session, and the second was Gordon Bell who spoke at the AVCAL breakfast. Each of
ideas
What a surprise- another year of women complaining that there are not enough women in the IT industry! We get the token female CEO or CIO to talk at our IWD lunches & we all shake our heads in horror that there are not more women in the industry. Why
technology
Not many active organisations for women in I.T. in Australia, the FITT mission is to: * Encourage more women into the ICT industry * Encourage women in the industry to achieve their personal aspirations * Assist women to better understand ICT http://www.fitt.org.au/
ideas
Speaking with friends who are educators of the young one, thing has become apparent. The idea that learning is achieved by building foundations or layers of knowledge is passe. The MTV generation want their learning pre-packaged and easily digested. No more learning the basics and practising them to become expert
ethics
I just saw Susan Greenfield - a.k.a. Baroness Professor Susan Greenfield - on a television chat show. She is a pioneering scientist, entrepreneur, communicator of science, policy adviser, and an extremely interesting presenter of complex ideas. She seems to be intelligent, vivacious and wears makeup and nice clothes.
ideas
Gmail is a fabulous idea. But I cannot wait until it gets out of beta. Current performance issues have been a little frustrating, as has the problem in receiving emails from hotmail. It feels like it is not on a production level server as there are lots of time-outs. The
management & leadership
Aaargh!! It is an unending source of amazement to me that our society will not let a hairdresser cut your hair or a mechanic fix your car unless they've done a multi-year apprenticeship BUT they will let any half-wit who thinks they have a clue play with mission
ideas
This from 2002: Whirlpool News - Telstra to stop rolling out pair gain Many people (including me) are still suffering from this stupidity and cupidity of Telstra! They knew pair gain was a cheap but ineffective way to roll out phone lines but they did it anyway. I think this
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These issues with pair gain go way back and Telstra is still avoiding the problem! Here's some more evidence: War of words erupts over Telstra service levels, pricing: ZDNet Australia: News: Communications By Rachel Lebihan, ZDNet Australia, 13 March 2002