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As a TEDster, the emergence of the TEDx events gives us the opportunity to share the TED experience with our friends, colleagues and interest groups in a smaller, more intimate, less big bang (and definitely less expensive) setting.
At acidlabs we’re incredibly proud to announce that TED has granted us the right to host the very [...]

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By now, many of you will have seen the ReadWriteWeb confused as Facebook saga.
It’s an object lesson in the capabilities and expectations of everyday web use. And it’s one that we who make our livings by purporting to understand people and the way they use the web and other technology ought to be both abundantly [...]

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Want to help improve passport information and  online passport applications in Australia?
We are working to help the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and their service providers to improve the service offered by the Australian Passports web site. Your input to this research will have a measurable effect on the conclusions we draw and the [...]

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Off to the Growth Summit

February 10, 2010

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Next Thursday, I’m speaking at the Technology to Drive Growth workshop at the National Growth Summit conference in Sydney.
I’ll be doing a short presentation entitled Cluetrains, Conversations, Trust and Openness that I hope will open some eyes to the opportunities businesses can realise if they deal with their customers and stakeholders as their principal concern [...]

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The hype around social media continues unabated – business, marketing, government, NFPs; everyone is getting involved. But to my mind, we’re still somewhat missing the point. Making it a part of our lives in a way that avoids the hype and adds real benefit to our own lives and the lives of others will be [...]

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The next step

February 7, 2010

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An emergent theme of my posts of late has been change. Whether that’s technology, user experience, reform of education, public sector and government, conferences or business (including my own), it’s a constant.

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Equally, I’ve had many conversations in physical and virtual environments about change. Those conversations, to my very great benefit, have [...]

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How it’s done

February 4, 2010

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This is how you do a public service announcement. It’s a part of the Embrace This campaign.

They’ve extended to other social media as well, including Facebook.
It hits all the right notes – family, love, fear, death, safety. There’s no way you can’t engage. Their research and audience focus work must have been amazing. I’d love [...]

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This post started as a comment on my pal, Linda Johannessen’s blog post about TED and conference organisers. Then it got long, so I figured I’d bring it over here. Not least because I want to discuss conference models this weekend at BarCamp Canberra 2010.
I’ll start with a story.
Attending something like TED is [...]

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My daughter begins high school next week.
And as she does, the Federal government and the various state governments continue to trumpet their triumphs in their so-called Building the Education Revolution plan. As yet, I’ve seen no revolution from this program, and little evolution. Mostly just reactionary, frightened implementation of the laptops for high schoolers program [...]

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On Monday this week, IBM flew me to the Australian Open for a day at the tennis and a behind the scenes view of the technology they provide to this and other events in their role as the key technology provider. It was all done under the aegis of my being [...]

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