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Stowe Boyd has it pretty much spot-on in his analysis of the New York Times’ announcement that it’s moving to a freemium model in 2011. Over at Reuters, the ever-eloquent Felix Salmon has his own, equally dark view of the move by the NYT, noting his belief it will do them no end of damage. [...]
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Today I spoke at Social Media: A Recruitment Revolution, where I debated (kind of) Seek’s Jake Andrew on the subject Do you need a job board when you have social networking? The text below is the argument I put for my case (more or less). The big news media. The music industry. Recruitment agencies. Job [...]
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My friend (in both the online and physical worlds), Kate Carruthers asks an interesting question in her post Are social networks breeding social isolation? Kate concludes that for her and her circle of friends who she associates with online and physically, this isn’t the case, but has other friends who are concerned. They need not [...]
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The presentation below is the slide deck from my opening keynote at yesterday’s AIS NSW ICT Integration Conference 2009: eConsumers or eProducers? It went over very well. The teachers and other educators seemed enthused by my contribution to their event. A sound file, that I will sync with the slides, is coming. The title, from [...]
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Yesterday morning, I received an email from a colleague who is the Chairman of a mid-sized organisation. I’ve been helping him build an understanding of social media and what relevance it might have for him. In that email, he asked me an especially pertinent question. Is there any reason why the vast majority of executives [...]
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I’m sure many of you will have seen the video above (from the smart folks at Socialnomics). I like it a lot. But you know what? We’re too focused on the revolution and not on the revolutionaries. The hype is a fad. Especially the marketing hype. We’re (well, a lot of us, anyway) all still [...]
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My friend, Kate Carruthers, has a great blog post up in which she draws the analogy between those touting social networks as the next great place to make money and the Bible story of Jesus and the money-changers. She says: I hate this approach to social networks. To me they are community gathering places not [...]
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This will be relevant for my NZ-based readers mostly, but is interesting nonetheless. Network PR, based in Auckland, Wellington and Sydney, have invited me over to run a workshop for their clients and an evening open chat about the value of social networking and social media, particularly for the PR world. We’ll be running a [...]
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As a part of an event I have coming up, the organisers asked me to do a litte future speculation on the direction the cultural and technological aspects of social networking are taking. Here’s what I put together for them. Since late 2008, Australia and NZ have seen a significant spike in awareness in the [...]
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I’ve talked about this issue ad nauseum in the past but it’s reared its head again in this article in the News Limited press (Brisbane’s Courier Mail, to be accurate). So, what am I talking about? Businesses blocking access to social tools in the workplace. In this case, Facebook gets a mention, but it applies [...]
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Stephen Collins has run acidlabs since early 2007.
acidlabs works with government, private and NFP sectors and individuals on how to combine experience and service design, engagement, innovation, collaboration and social business to improve their organisations.
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