I read Who Moved My Cheese? this morning over coffee (it’s a short 95 page book) after Joanne Spain suggested that it was similar to some patterns I have been talking about lately.

It is a magnificent story written in plain English of how there are different types of people in this world, and how they [...]

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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 [...]

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Ever since the internet began, people have been addicted to checking their web statistics to see how popular their site is - but just as the web has moved from static to realtime, so has web statistics.
Take CoverHunt.com for example –  I know that around 100,000 people looked at over 1,400,000 pages in the last month, but [...]

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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 from [...]

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I just wanted to highlight some really well-built websites I might not use every day, but like anyway. 

They have a strong brand, they have attention to detail, they have a vibrant membership. They do it right. They are well built. 
Meetup
Their vision is “Let’s use the Internet to get people off the Internet.” They run the [...]

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