The Archives
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09.03.08Enterprise 2.0 - Enabling change or part of the problem?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? View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: innovation change) We all know the world of business is experiencing massive change. The nature of how we do business itself is undergoing a groundswell that redefines work for the early part of the 21st Century. We can no longer push messages to a passive consumer base, or an equally passive workforce. Customers, stakeholders, consumers, clients and particularly our employees expect, quite rightly, to have ...
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08.11.08Connect.edAs the parent of a child not too far off entering high school, a number of issues surrounding her education concern me. Not least of which is how are governments in Australia - Federal and State - dealing with the increasing need for students of today to have an education that is connected, collaborative and conversational. It's my view that schools are falling a long way behind the 8-ball in terms of providing our children with the type of education they need these days: connected - yes our schools are largely online, but use of online resources is limited by computer availability, ...
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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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05.21.08What a difference a week makesThe 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. The content at both was largely really well selected by the organisers and well presented by the speakers. But the audience and the "buzz" at each was worlds different. The good news first. Let's talk about Interesting South. Based on the London Interesting, Interesting South was an eclectic ...
