January 21, 2010
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Hello! Welcome to acidlabs. You look to be new here, so you may want to read about Stephen Collins, the work of acidlabs, or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!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 [...]
December 3, 2009
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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 boards. [...]
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 the dedication [...]
September 2, 2009
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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 excited about [...]
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 short, [...]
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 general [...]
February 20, 2009
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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 to [...]