The Archives
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07.16.08What will the future of media look like?If you attended Ross Dawson's Future of Media Summit in Sydney or Silicon Valley yesterday, there are a few core take-aways you might have been left with: the artificial split/war between journalism and new media prevails everyone - PR, journalism, advertising and broadcasting - is trying to figure out this social networking and social media stuff (and I guess that's good for people like me who can help with that) old media is changing and coming into the new world, although the old "pump it out and they will consume" attitude still persists closed formats and ...
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06.20.08Words in the cloudThose of us that dig tagging and words should get a kick out of Wordle. It's a funky Java tool to build cool-looking clouds from blocks of text. Here's a Wordle for my recent PubCamp talk, Slouching Towards Intertwingularity: And another for my Age of Conversation manifesto: Too awesome! Thanks to my pal, Jaz, for the link!
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05.27.08Upcoming speaking engagementsA few announcements about speaking events I have coming up. You may be interested in them or wish to attend to hear me speak. Links to events are in the listings where available. The Art of Customer Engagement - 19 June 2008 My talk, entitled Turn on, tune in, drop out will discuss: ...the business context of participatory culture, addressing the need for organisations to reimagine themselves as their business is done more and more online. In this new world, people are engaged intellectually and given autonomy, information and knowledge is shared openly, collaboration is encouraged rather than hindered and productivity and morale ...
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05.23.08Wake up!This post started as a comment on my friend, Lee Hopkins' post, The state of comms in corporate Australia. Then I thought I had enough to say that it needed to be here. So here it is. Corporate and public sector Australia, it's time to wake up! The benefits of using social media in a business setting are many and well researched, yet you seem not to have realised. You are falling behind your overseas counterparts and you are experiencing a brain drain the likes of which you have never seen before. As evangelists like me and Lee encounter resistance to these ...
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05.12.08Conversation. Collaboration. Community.Here you go... My talk from Interesting South 2008. Unusually, I was incredibly nervous before and during this talk. I'm dreading seeing the video, as I don't think it'll be at all flattering or indicative of my usual style. I guess it was a combination of factors - really wanting to present at this event, being late in the schedule (which ran well over time), there being so many great talks on the night with me being third last and having so many people in the audience that I respect highly and whose opinions I value (thanks for being there - ...
