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The next step

February 7, 2010

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Hello! Welcome to acidlabs. You look to be new here, so you may want to read about Stephen Collins, the work of acidlabs, or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!An emergent theme of my posts of late has been change. Whether that’s technology, user experience, reform of education, public sector and government, [...]

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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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Who are the people in your neighborhood?
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UXDers often rely on personas to build a more complete understanding of the types of users that will interact with the applications they are working on. Writing the stories for those personas used to be hard for me until I started using other stories [...]

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On 26 February 2009, I will be keynoting the Inspecht HR Futures Conference.
Put together by my Melbourne-based industry colleague, Michael Specht, this one day event will look closely at the opportunities and risks faced by business in 2009 and the issues these businesses face in the current economic and technical climate. The day will see [...]

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The (un)organisers of BarCamp Sydney have let me know that they are preparing for yet another festival of creativity to engage and excite the Australian tech and innovation community. Details below.
Date: 15 November 2008
Venue: UNSW Roundhouse
Time: 9:00AM-5:00PMpm (registration starts at 8:30AM)
Register: Do it yourself on the wiki
If you’ve never been to a BarCamp before, I [...]

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Laurel’s pressured me and now Lee has too! What is it with you people?
There are a number of triggers, I guess, that will get me to make those particular mouse clicks and keyboard strokes. I’ve never really thought about them clearly before now. Like Laurel and Lee, I’m pretty much on a theme here. There [...]

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Here’s a way to get your management along to the Web 2.0 Executive Bootcamp I’m running at Web Directions South on 23 September.
I’m giving away one seat at the Bootcamp (just the Bootcamp – no conference pass and certainly no travel). But there are a couple of conditions – the seat will go to someone [...]

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Incentive

August 29, 2008

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If you’re a regular reader here, you’ll already be aware that on 23 September, I’m co-delivering (with Hinchcliffe and Company’s, Jeff Kelly) the first ever Web 2.0 Executive Bootcamp in the Southern Hemisphere at Web Directions South.
To make things even more interesting, John Allsopp, one of the conference organisers, has offered up the opportunity for [...]

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As most of my readers will know, one of my passions is the potential for transformative government by leveraging the power of hyperconnectivity – social networks, engagement of constituents and citizens, connection of policy-makers to the people and connection of people to providers of government services.
As such, I’m pleased to announce that I will be [...]

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Just a small announcement.
Today I confirmed that I’ll be speaking at one of Australia’s (if not the world’s) best knowledge management conferences – actKM.
It’s a highly-regarded event and some of the best KM people in the world will be attending – Dave Snowden, David Gurteen and my friends Matt Moore and Matthew Hodgson. These people [...]

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