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speaking

I’m in Wellington, New Zealand to give a keynote at GOVIS 2009. I’m really looking forward to it, as I think I’ll hit some notes that will really resonate with the audience. Of course, one of the best parts of coming to conferences is the opportunity to socialise with interesting people and meet a few [...]

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The slides and transcript won’t go live until Thursday morning, but here’s a sneak peek of my GOVIS keynote. It’s a Wordle of the full text, limited to the 50 most frequent words.

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This short essay is my presentation at the inaugural The Public Sphere to be hosted by Senator Kate Lundy at the ANU on 7 May 2009. Despite living in one of a relatively few nations with compulsory suffrage, the electorate largely remains woefully uninformed about the political process – how elections actually work, the difference [...]

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This will be relevant for my NZ-based readers mostly, but is interesting nonetheless. Network PR, based in Auckland, Wellington and Sydney, have invited me over to run a workshop for their clients and an evening open chat about the value of social networking and social media, particularly for the PR world. We’ll be running a [...]

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Rethink. Reimagine.

February 27, 2009

in speaking

I gave the opening keynote yesterday at Michael Specht’s HR Futures conference. Michael asked me to speak on the recent trip I made to the US to attend TED and reflect of the experience, what I learned there and it’s applicability to business and HR. I was only too happy to help Michael out. He’s [...]

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My closing keynote from eLearning08, the primary event on the NSW Australian Flexible Learning Framework calendar. Connect.ed – The story of a girl View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: participation learning) I want today to tell you a story. Like many stories, our hero is a young girl. She will face challenges and [...]

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It’s two weeks after the event, but here are my slides and notes from my presentation at Edge of the Web. Apologies for the delay. To those for whom some of this looks familiar, it shares an amount of common content with my recent paper at the BTELL EA conference. The audiences were very different, [...]

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Presented to the AGM of the Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship and for the product launch of IntranetManager.NET. It was just lucky that two groups asked me to present on essentially the same content on consecutive days. View SlideShare presentation. (tags: innovation socialmedia) Just 10 or so years ago, we were arguing whether email was [...]

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This is my slide deck and script for the The 6th Annual Enterprise Architecture Conference in Sydney on 3 September 2008. Enterprise 2.0 – Enabling change or part of the problem? View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: innovation change) We all know the world of business is experiencing massive change. The nature of [...]

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UPDATE: and now, there’s video! Thanks to the guys at StickyAds and MediaHunter. PubCamp 2008 – Stephen Collins from Acidlabs social media presentation from Sticky Advertising on Vimeo These slides and the accompanying text are my presentation from the PubCamp events in Sydney and Melbourne. Enjoy! If you’re listening in, apologies for how fast I [...]

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