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Elevator

January 20, 2010

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I often struggle when asked to give my elevator pitch – there are so many things I think about and want to do. But it’s more than time I did it, so here goes nothing…
What’s acidlabs mean?
acidlabs is about ideas. With the name, I wanted to create something that attracted attention. That’s worked just fine, [...]

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2010 vision

January 13, 2010

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Many folk I know have been discussing their 2009 challenges and victories and looking forward to what 2010 has in store for them. I’ve felt the need to at least review and refresh, but knew I had to get my thoughts in order first.
This post is just a first pass at doing so for me [...]

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This afternoon, Senator Stephen Conroy, the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy made the announcement so many of us had been dreading – that the Federal government would be going ahead with its plans to filter Australian Internet access and unnecessarily protect us from nasties we neither want nor need to be protected [...]

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Deep thoughts

December 9, 2009

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I write a lot of words about the three tag words for acidlabs – Conversation. Collaboration. Community. – and what they mean in this world where Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, Knowledge Worker 2.0, Government 2.0 and all the other over-hyped PickHotTopicOfTheDay 2.0 subjects are discussed. It’s not often that I manage to get any of [...]

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This post is being published in Marketing Magazine’s 2009 Media Guide. I’m not sure when or if MM are publishing it online.
Over the years, I’ve probably dedicated somewhere in the low-mid six figures in words to the subjects that interest me:

user experience
social media
web strategy
knowledge work and the people that do it

Most of that writing has [...]

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My friend (in both the online and physical worlds), Kate Carruthers asks an interesting question in her post Are social networks breeding social isolation? Kate concludes that for her and her circle of friends who she associates with online and physically, this isn’t the case, but has other friends who are concerned. They need not [...]

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Lyndal Curtis’ commentary on the recent Media 140 conference in Sydney suggests she’s not done her homework. Despite admitting to being something of a geek, early adopter and rich social media user, she asks where we find the time and if we’re missing out on talking with big chunks of society.
Has she not connected the [...]

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The Perfect Gift for a Man

October 28, 2009

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A few months back, the Inspire Foundation ran a campaign they called Man Week. Designed to call attention to the terrible loss occurring amongst young men dealing with depression and suicide (according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the current suicide rate for men in Australia is more than three times the rate of women) [...]

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Over at YourHealth, the Department of Health and Ageing’s community consultation site on Australian health reform, they’ve taken an extra step in the opening up of the public consultation model – they’re now encouraging submissions by video.
On top of the pretty open consultation model they’re already using; stories, regular written submissions, polling and the like, [...]

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Yesterday morning, I received an email from a colleague who is the Chairman of a mid-sized organisation. I’ve been helping him build an understanding of social media and what relevance it might have for him. In that email, he asked me an especially pertinent question.
Is there any reason why the vast majority of executives you [...]

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