LEARN | CREATE | SHARE Teachers in Australia find themselves at one of the most exciting and daunting periods of organised education in history. Never before have we seen such sweeping innovation and investment into greater quality teaching. This event will accelerate your confidence and competence to use emerging technologies in the classroom in a [...]
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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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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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Have you ever had a colleague or employee that just didn’t fit? You know what I mean, when they just don’t seem to “get” things the way you “get” them. I have and recently is occurred to me that they really did see the world from a different perspective. And I don’t mean they had [...]
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Imagine spending 10 years and hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to solve a problem only to make it worse, not better. That sounds a bit like marriage doesn’t it? Just kidding! (I hope my wife doesn’t read my blog.) I am talking about the futile attempts of many Australian companies to recruit women into [...]
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It was an absolute train wreck. The who’s who of the marketing industry had gathered in a mega-ballroom in an over-priced US desert resort on the outskirts of Phoenix to hear what we all believed would be a life-changing presentation from a well respected marketing mind. There was only one problem. Twitter!You see there is [...]
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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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