Entries from November 2007
Over the last 6 months I have written a few times about always on communication and the impact on workplaces, work life balance and productivity. Today is a follow up.
By the end of next week I will have had the Palm Treo 750 for 2 months. Verdict?
You take my Treo away I will hunt you [...]
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Unless you have been living under a rock you will have heard about the sites called Facebook, or MySpace, and their professional cousin LinkedIn, you might even remember their predecessors Friendster. These sites are basically social network software/service (SNS) where you connect with other people and share information.
Today I read a great article by Cory [...]
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November 24th, 2007 · 1 Comment · HRIS, Privacy · 1,043 views
I haven’t written about data privacy in a while but I could not help it. The “little” issue in the UK in the last couple of days has brought the topic back up. The UK Taxman has “misplaced” 2 CDs full of personal and banking details of about 25 million people. To make matters worse [...]
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Two things occurred to me this morning.
Humans are naturally a creative bunch
We are more than willing to share our creations
How do I know this? Just look at the number of mashups (video, audio, software, & services) that are created everyday.
My questions is. Why in a personal lives are we so openly creative but when when [...]
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There are several classic cliché’s such as “money makes money” and “success breeds success” that basically mean the more you have of something the more you get. Normally I would dispute these concepts but I am starting to question my personal perspectives.
Two things have happened to make this happen. Firstly I spent an hour or [...]
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November 18th, 2007 · No Comments · Blogging · 1,160 views
Yesterday was Wordcamp Melbourne 2007. I arrived a few hours late, overslept a long story, but what I did see was great. Some of the highlights for me:-
Darren Rowse: Good insight into the different types of ads and how the perform on different types of blogs. I need to think through some of these things [...]
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November 15th, 2007 · No Comments · Blogging · 1,039 views
Australian Wordpress evangelist, Edublogs owner, James Farmer has setup up WordCamp Melbourne for this weekend, unfortunately if you have not already registered you will not be able to attend now as it is sold out!
The day kicks off at 11am with drinks and a pre camp chat, then we have some amazing speakers. Alex Shiels [...]
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While there are lots of reasons for project failures, both IT and non IT, a major reason is poor execution of organisational change management. During the implementation of the project each individual impacted needs to come to terms with the change. Back in 2000 William Bridges and Susan Mitchell Bridges provided a good way of [...]
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We all know that work life balance is important, so much as been written about it in all forms of media that I suspect we have almost become immune to the message. As a reminder Lee Lefever (CommonCraft) posted about a story we have all heard before.
Small town fisherman gets told by a Harvard MBA [...]
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