One mantra that I like to repeat over and over when I speak to people about the power of social networking and web 2.0 is that ‘if we all knew what we all knew, we’d be unstoppable.’ In other words, one of the greatest limitations that most companies and individuals face when searching for information [...]
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I had a great conversation with Ken Wallace on the weekend, who’s not only a cracking screenwriter but also has the pleasure of being my brother-in-law. He has recently had his second child, and was saying how he thinks in general people consider the way that they parent, ‘normal’. Everyone else does it incorrectly or [...]
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I came across the following video the other day: JESS3 / The State of The Internet from JESS3 on Vimeo. This is a fascinating look at the amount of data seen, generated, and shared over the internet. Two things jumped out at me from this video. The first is just how powerful the internet is [...]
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I met recently with a fascinating guy – Jonathan Marshall – who among being variously talented and qualified in many fields, is currently doing some hugely exciting work in the early childhood space. He shared with me some research findings that blew my mind; and I wanted to share just one FYI. Forgive me if [...]
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Just read an article in BRW (from last November, actually – thanks waiting room magazines!) that made a fascinating point about efficiency. For years now – during the ‘high years’, as I call them – the mantra in supply chain management has been ‘efficiency, efficiency, efficiency’. And by efficiency, people meant less suppliers, less time [...]
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In life there are two approaches to inspiring change: carrots and sticks. A Rhode Island school has taken the rather ‘stick-ish’ approach of firing every member of staff because they wouldn’t go along with the (awesome) plan to fix the ailing institution. Wow – I didn’t know we were allowed to do this. Look out, [...]
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Just came back from Nicola and I doing two sessions in two days at the big Online Retail expo at the Convention Centre in Sydney. Two observations of interest. Number one – doing rounds of the showroom floor; couldn’t help but notice that like 90% of vendors there were talking about ‘search’ and SEO. Now [...]
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Anyone who doubts that Web 2.0 is going to change business (yes, there are actually still some!) consider the following App for the iPhone. The NSW Food Watch app (check out this story) mash’s data from the NSW Department of Food Safety with Google Maps. What you get when you launch it is a map [...]
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So as a side-note to the Productivity Project last night I did a session for a group of about 250 school kids on building personal brands. The topic of technology came up and web 2.0. One of the interesting things I find is how web 2.0 is blurring the line between a ‘personal’ brand and [...]
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Last weekend as I was reading the Sunday paper I came across this brilliant and funny article by Richard Glover. In it, Richard conducts a simple thought experiment. He asks us to imagine what we would think of inventions if they occurred in reverse order. For instance, how would we feel about landlines, if they [...]