Pick your own editorial team (July 7th, 2009 - 1,554 views)
The chatter about how the newspaper industry is dying is massing, again, but recently I have been thinking about how my use of Twitter has been replacing their key value-generator. Years ago you read newspapers not just for national news but local news, global news, sport, weather, marriages, births, deaths, real estate, cars, jobs, travel, [...]
Community Action 2.0 (June 19th, 2009 - 857 views)
At Future Summit 2009 the topic Priorities For Australia In The Crisis And Beyond was one that Peter Williams has had plenty of experience with – working with the people of Flowerdale through the bushfire crisis and the rebuilding efforts. When your family have just lost their homes to bushfires most people probably aren’t thinking about using social [...]
Emergent events with realtime backchannels (May 19th, 2009 - 1,074 views)
Having run and participated in a number of interesting events recently I have been thinking about the formats that we use, and which structures produce an effective environment for engagement and constructive collaboration. It strikes me as odd that although I’m writing from the ‘Future Summit‘, that we are using the same elements as we [...]
I’ll be at Future Summit this week (May 17th, 2009 - 1,175 views)
Future Summit is an annual event that is run by the Australian Davos Connection to share the wealth of ideas within the broader World Economic Forum community with the thought leaders of Australia.
”If Australia could do a few big things that would have the greatest positive impact on our collective future, what should they be?”
Some of the topics [...]
