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When you’re given just 20 minutes to cover the notion of the more open business models the proliferation of social networks encourage, there’s not a great deal of time to waffle. Hopefully I didn’t the other day, when I gave this talk to close off the speaker sessions at the Technology to Drive Growth workshop [...]

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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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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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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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I was interviewed for a piece in this month’s Research News from the Australian Market & Social Research Society entitled A research dilemma: Confidentiality breaches.
The piece explores the management of customer relationships when your information has been criticized and exposed online. In it, I express some views about how organisations ought to approach this sort [...]

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This short talk is to be delivered to the IBM Smarter Workforce – Government Leadership Forum on 9 September 2009.
“Every dystopia is a utopia turned inside out… The problem isn’t in the basic idea, it’s in the arrogance of implementation. It’s in the idea that we will get it right the first time.”
- Steven Lloyd [...]

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I’m yet to see the full survey, and I’m not certain a sample of 505 is particularly representative, but the new research from Stollznow stating “The reputations of organisations are taking a beating in social media…” as reported in Australian CIO is… drumroll please… unsurprising.
So much so, I’m inclined to respond with a resounding (with [...]

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During Twitter’s #blogchat today, Mack Collier dropped the following idea in:
There’s a good post for someone, a post on what IS a good comment & where the ’spam’ line is & how to cross it in comments #blogchat
Given I’m the sort that keeps this sort of idea floating around in my head for just such [...]

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The text and slides below are for my session at Public Sphere #2 – Government 2.0: Policy and Practice which is being held at Parliament House tomorrow. The talk is just 10 minutes long, so I don’t go into any real depth – but it is a nice, quick overview.
For something organised quickly and on [...]

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