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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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Breaking away from TED

February 9, 2009

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I still have a lot of session summaries to write up (or perhaps I won’t as it’s pretty easy to find great alternatives to me, such as my new friend, Chel O’Reilly).
But what I will do is try to summarize what this ride has been like.
I first became aware of TED around 5 years ago, [...]

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trib’s big TED Adventure

February 3, 2009

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I’m attending TED@PalmSprings for the next few days. I believe it will be quite the adventure – inspiring, exciting, mind-blowing. I’ve already had the privilege of running into a few interesting people, purely by chance and the power of Twitter.
Having Dinner with Chel, Bristol, Matt and Andy was a great deal of serendipitous fun.
I’ll be [...]

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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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If only companies in Australia hired this way! I would certainly have been inclined to work for a business that thought like this rather than striking out on my own.
SHIFT are taking a position that recognises explicitly the power and value of an employee with a strong personal brand – their value to the company [...]

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My favorite TED talks

July 9, 2008

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A couple of weeks ago my friend, Tara Hunt, posted a list of her 10 favorite TED Talks. She’s inspired me to do the same, except I’m limiting myself to just five. Why five? Well, if I go over five, I’m just as likely to go over 10. And so on. I pretty much like [...]

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Off to Boston

June 5, 2008

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All the pieces fell into place today, and at short notice, I’m off to the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston. I wanted desperately to go last year, so being able to go now is something of a wish come true.
I expect to come back with my head full of enormous ideas, success stories and grand [...]

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After a couple of posts where I’ve expressed frustration about the seeming inability of business and government to take advantage of social media, I thought I’d close off the week (it’s Friday afternoon here) with something a little more positive. As many of you know, I’m one of the many co-authors for the new edition [...]

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The past two weeks, I’ve attended two one-day (well, one evening and an all-day) conferences that couldn’t have been further apart in the reaction they drew from me. The first was Interesting South on 12 May and then on Monday this week, Web Directions South Government. Both conferences were run extremely professionally by great teams. [...]

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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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