There’s plenty of frustration amongst social media commentators about the steadfast attitude of many enterprises towards the adoption of social tools. More specifically, accepting the philosophy of Enterprise 2.0. Ross Dawson of Future Exploration Networks and Stephen Collins of AcidLabs amongst others have often commented in detail on this topic. They have pointed to some [...]
One of Australia’s top IT Journo’s brad Howarth wrote Saasu up in his lastest Dynamic Business article on Automating Businesses. I’m a product person and often struggle trying to write how I feel about our product (I’m confident I’m not alone). Brad just seems to have the knack of communicating it without all the ‘tech’. [...]
Telco’s online reach is smaller than they think. Sure Telco’s have large customer bases but the only time I have gone to my Telco’s website was when I upgraded my ISP plan. It’s anecdotal I admit. What’s your use of their websites like? Telco’s have bad websites. When I did upgrade my plan, the website [...]
It’s old now, but you simply can’t watch this video too many times.
Interesting post by logoorange about logo design trends in 2008 DoshDosh is one of my favourite websites. Here’s some guidelines on building personal brand via social media p.s. If your a lego fan like my kids (actually me) then check out chirkman’s Lego tag set on flickr. His photo’s seem to put life into these [...]
I often do a spring clean through folders, bookmarks, contacts and now my twitter account. I could use the time savings excuse not to do it but I know it’s an excuse. Small amounts of time spent on cleaning pays wonders in productivity. The kicker is that great clean mind feeling. It’s so much easier [...]
When any group of people operate at a new level of difficulty, scale and focus then the arguments and wars of the day become smaller issues and begin to lose their power. If humans can change our point of relativity from local/country to global/universe then I believe it can help stop wars, bring countries closer [...]
It was strange for me moving from a trading environment to the software as a service industry (SaaS). One of the biggest differences I noticed straight away was how sparse web pages were. Even the early web tools like online banking and broking portals were so inefficiently designed. They failed to optimise screen real estate [...]
Twitter is a community website where users post publicly or privately what they are doing during their day in succinct comments (140 characters). In my opinion, the magic 140 characters and getting a feel for peoples day to day lives are the biggest reasons for it’s success. It keeps communication precise, moving it away from [...]
I’m at BarCamp Sydney 2008, get there if you can, lots of great people and content – a perfect storm. Clearly no-one has it nailed on what Web 3.0 will look like, including me. The discussion turned to; web privacy, OpenSocial, OpenID, which device, on vs. off-line and semantic web. So many views and they [...]
Andy Goldsworthy and his amazing natural art works. Don’t Let A Reliance on Email Kill Your Communication. It’s bloated, delayed, one-to-one and written. Downloading lots of whitepapers? This might help free up your hard drive – Bnet.com.
Pool filters – cut the hours by half in winter. Keep it clean, filter less. Second fridges -keep the grill dust free and don’t cool to much beer and soft drink. Oil column heaters – these devices are glacier melters. If you have a couple of these think about an alternative. Leaving your computer on [...]
If I offered you a trip to Hawaii in a years time for filling in a two page form would you take it? There’s no privacy reveal, no obligation, no catches. Nearly everyone except those who think they are worth more than $1,000 an hour would. Changing credit card providers can acheive just that. For [...]
How much of your time is spent in transition? Home to work. Desk to Water Cooler. Email to website to blog to blah. Do we need to analyse this to work out what transition time is costing the human race? It’s a cost. I’m confident we would find a correlation between the quantity of stuff [...]