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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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TED DIY

February 7, 2009

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While I’m behind on the main session posts as I type this (three sessions behind now…), this is worth highlighting.
One of the unique things (and there are many) about TED@PalmSprings is the opportunity for audience members to get on stage and share their ideas worth spreading.
This morning, a bunch of us did just that. And [...]

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TED Session 5 – Understand

February 6, 2009

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Things got better for me in this session. The kickoff speaker, Nina Jablonski had what I think was the best stage presence so far. Others will disagree, but I really liked her – I’d totally study Anthropology if she was one of my professors.
Nina Jablonski

this month is the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth
Origin of [...]

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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 adversity. But she [...]

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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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That title is an obscure Sesame Street reference to the sketch in the video below.

It’s always been one of my favorites. And the message holds true today. In work and in life, we need to turn to experts or those skilled where we are not in order to achieve our best possible outcomes. It’s about [...]

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Free their minds

September 24, 2008

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The Australian today is running a story claiming that Innovation Minister, Kim Carr favors a regime whereby recipients of grants will be required to make their research findings publicly available. This represents a revolution in the Australian research space and something that has been sorely needed for a long time.
In the address, to be given [...]

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Dion Hincliffe, Founder and CTO of Hinchcliffe and Co, well-known Enterprise 2.0 and Web 2.0 blogger and creator of the Web 2.0 University was the presenter for this session.
Unfortunately, the conference wifi went down at the start of the session, so liveblogging went out the window as an option.
To kick off, Dion encouraged everyone to [...]

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Cognitive heatsinks

May 2, 2008

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Like a lot of other folks, I’m really excited and inspired by Clay Shirky’s Web 2.0 Expo talk (video here). As usual for Clay, it’s engaging, informed, informative and has you thinking “what if” just moments in. And as usual, it’s full of great quotes like:
Desperate Housewives essentially functioned as a kind of cognitive heat [...]

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BarCamp Canberra #1 wrap

April 21, 2008

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I think I speak for all of the Unorganisers when I say that BarCamp Canberra #1 was an unqualified success! We couldn’t be happier with the turnout, the quality of the talks, the feedback we’ve received and the enthusiasm to hold another BarCamp here in 2009.
Here are a few stats from the day:

in excess of [...]

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