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Stilgherrian has posted an hilarious and well-considered welcome message to the Prime Minister who joined Twitter today.
I hope both he (@kevinruddpm) and the Opposition Leader (@turnbullmalcolm) , who’s been on Twitter a month or so now bother to read it and then move on to Mark Pesce’s material. I couldn’t agree with Stil more.
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Mostly… Let me explain.
There’s been some really interesting and sometime passionate discussion on the matter of Enterprise 2.0 implementation in the real world that’s taken place in the Australian blogosphere in the past few days.
First, my friend and colleague, Matthew Hodgson raised something of a chicken-egg question, asking the classic question from the great baseball [...]
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As a resident of our national capital, the references in the media to “Canberra” as an analogy for the Federal Government sometimes bug me, as they must equally bother the residents of places like Washington DC and other seats of government. But that’s a minor issue in comparison to the serious issue facing Australians with [...]
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The Australian today is running a story claiming that Innovation Minister, Kim Carr favors a regime whereby recipients of grants will be required to make their research findings publicly available. This represents a revolution in the Australian research space and something that has been sorely needed for a long time.
In the address, to be given [...]
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acidlabs and Hinchcliffe & Company are pleased to announce that they agreed to a partnership that will see acidlabs deliver Web 2.0 University’s courses in Australia and New Zealand. Partnering also with Web Directions, who will provide event hosting and publicity, Web 2.0 University is a first in the region.
Courses will be offered several times [...]
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As the parent of a child not too far off entering high school, a number of issues surrounding her education concern me. Not least of which is how are governments in Australia – Federal and State – dealing with the increasing need for students of today to have an education that is connected, collaborative and [...]
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UPDATE – Thanks to my friend, Lee White in South Carolina, I’ve discovered that the super-brainy Rachel Happe has posted on similar matters today. I am a huge fan of Rachel, so utterly delighted that she thinks the same way.
I’ve just started back on some postgraduate study, and one of the initial discussions we’re having [...]
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If only companies in Australia hired this way! I would certainly have been inclined to work for a business that thought like this rather than striking out on my own.
SHIFT are taking a position that recognises explicitly the power and value of an employee with a strong personal brand – their value to the company [...]
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