EDIT: Of course, with the AFR’s evil paywall, you can’t read the article online. Lucky they flow it through to MIS Australia.
I’m quoted pretty extensively in a major article in the Information section of today’s Australian Financial Review, the leading Australian newspaper focussed on business. In the article, Social networking comes of age, sort of, journalist Renai LeMay discusses the paper I delivered at itechne’s recent PubCamp events in Melbourne and Sydney. You can see the original slides and notes here.
It’s exciting to be quoted in a journal as important as the AFR. It kind of makes me feel that the message I’m trying to get organisations to understand - that social networking and social media aren’t disruptive to their businesses, rather that they need to become a core part of them - is beginning to get through.
You multi-media tart you …. congrats!
Kudos Stephen.
It’s nice to see the kind of intelligent and rigorous thinking you demonstrated in your presentation picked up and highlighted in the AFR.
Overall I was a little underwhelmed with some of the content of the presentations in Melbourne, but as I’m writing in a blog post right now, I think that actually has more to do with the fact that my expectations are high, and with an imbalance in the levels of knowledge about Web 2.0 out there at the moment.
I did some work on Habermas’ Communicative Action Theory at Uni (not sure if you’ve come across this), but he actively engages with the idea of ‘weak ties’ vs ‘strong ties’, so it was compelling to see these ideas discussed in the context of actual online activity, as opposed to supposed online behaviours, which sadly seem to get the majority of the focus with little corroborating evidence.
Thanks for raising the intellectual bar at PubCamp Melbourne, and I look forward to keeping up with @trib and AcidLabs :)
hey congrats!
Sorry I didn’t make the Melbourne PubCamp - bad timing for me. Would have been good to catch up again! Next time!
Can’t read the article without subscribing to AFR! Not good… ;)
@JK-S should’ve known. Lucky it’s also on MIS Australia http://www.misaustralia.com/viewer.aspx?EDP://20080624000020821704