Community Action 2.0 (June 19th, 2009 - 1,147 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 [...]
The power of the prototype (June 12th, 2009 - 1,305 views)
At any networking event there is a healthy dose of “so, what do you do?” and last night at the Churchill Club was no different. The best reply that I saw though came from Scott Kilmartin from haul. If somebody asked me what Scott does I would have said something like “he makes satchel bags and [...]
Watching a Yammer network explode (April 15th, 2009 - 5,463 views)
Yammer is like an internal discussion board where anybody can post a response to a message. It helps people exchange ideas and send real-time messages in small or large groups. The “enterprise-Twitter” can also help to break down departmental walls, flatten the communications structure of the organisation and help people get more done by being better connected. You might [...]
The Hive meets Richard Eastes in Brisbane (April 7th, 2009 - 2,485 views)
Last week I flew up to Brisbane for the first Hive Brisbane event. We have been running The Hive in Melbourne for over a year now and when Mike Boyd approached us to start something similar in Brisbane we thought it was a wonderful opportunity. It turned out to be a really fun night! Richard Eastes [...]
The Hive with Brendan McKeegan (March 11th, 2009 - 1,462 views)
Last night we had Brendan McKeegan speak at The Hive in Melbourne (rumor has it we’re starting in Brisbane later this month too..) Brendan is the CEO of EMUE – they make a new type of credit card that has this cool authentication thing built in. The best description of the thing is this youtube video. [...]
