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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
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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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It’s two weeks after the event, but here are my slides and notes from my presentation at Edge of the Web. Apologies for the delay.
To those for whom some of this looks familiar, it shares an amount of common content with my recent paper at the BTELL EA conference. The audiences were very different, so [...]

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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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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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This is my slide deck and script for the The 6th Annual Enterprise Architecture Conference in Sydney on 3 September 2008.
Enterprise 2.0 – Enabling change or part of the problem?
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We all know the world of business is experiencing massive change. The nature of how we do [...]

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UPDATE – Thanks to my friend, Lee White in South Carolina, I’ve discovered that the super-brainy Rachel Happe has posted on similar matters today. I am a huge fan of Rachel, so utterly delighted that she thinks the same way.
I’ve just started back on some postgraduate study, and one of the initial discussions we’re having [...]

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Insightory , a newish social tool for “sharing management insights” contacted me a little while back to ask if they could use me as a “Featured Expert”. It’s something they renew every few days and which they use to highlight the work of someone they consider has:

Deep experience in a particular field of [...]

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A while back now, journalist Sue Bushell interviewed me on the subject of Enterprise 2.0. We talked a couple of times over a few days and now, her major article has been published in the Australian version of CIO magazine.
Most exciting for me is that Sue has used me as the lead interview in the [...]

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Engagement

January 27, 2008

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Thanks to my Melbourne-based compatriot, Michael Specht, I have seen this video from McDaniel Partners on the issue of employee engagement.

Riffing off the incredible Miniature Earth, it delves richly and poignantly into the lives of the people you work with every day.
It’s an unfortunate fact that most organisations simply have no idea how to engage [...]

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