Insights

Participation in Web 2.0 Social Networks

Gary Hayes is at a Digital Storytelling conference in Belgium and he posted a conversation he had with an academic presenter and his subsequent take on the conversation in his blog. He has drawn a useful graphic showing the different levels of participation ranging from consuming content to submitting original content and the levels in
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III to WWW to GGG

Tim Berners-Lee has posted his thoughts on the development of the internet building on his idea of the Social Web.  He sees the development of the internet in three, distinct stages.  He calls the first the international information infrastructure -III- parodying Al Gore’s NII phrase which he coined in the early 90s. This essentially made
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Can Globalisation Work?

Johan Nordberg made a documentary for Channel 4 on the benefits of globalisation back in 2003:  focussing on three case studies:  Taiwan, Vietnam and Kenya. It is still very much worth viewing and if you missed the transmission date, good old  Google Video has it here.  And Johan’s website is also worth having a look
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Just Back From New Zealand

Had two very special weeks in New Zealand:  a week in North Island and a week in South Island.  It included an invitation from the Business Round Table to listen to Nigel Lawson’s brilliant and challenging  Sir Ronald Trotter Lecture :  " A Cool Look at Global Warming" which tried to cut the emotion from
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Signs of the Times

1. The petrol station on the corner of the main street nearest my home has now become a 24 hour drive in Florist. 2. The Geelong Botanic Gardens is being transformed into a minimum water garden i.e. one that can survive on natural rainful only.  The green of exotic european plants is being replaced by
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Where Did the Election Go?

The Australian election campaign is in full swing. And it hardly merits a mention in polite conversation.  It has gone on for weeks and there are still 3 weeks to go.  But the official campaign is being upstaged by an unofficial campaign on YouTube and elsewhere.  Here the internet is buzzing.  I can find 730
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Where Did Friday Go?

In Auckland waiting for a connection to Melbourne.  I left LA on Thursday night and it is now Saturday morning.  Friday 26th October 2007 has been forever wiped from my life. It makes you realise how arbitrary some things are, and therefore what is important.  I think Ken Blanchard would agree with that.
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MacOSX v10.5 Leopard

As the entire Mac community knows, the next release of the Mac OS is out tomorrow at 6.30pm US Eastern time.  The Apple stores are closing for a couple of hours to prepare for it , and I have not met a single user who is going to give this upgrade the flick.  There are
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Ken Blanchard

Ken is the One-Minute Manager guy and he is probably well and truly sick of that reducto title as he is a brilliant developer of leaders and offers loads of executive development services.  He was also the final Keynote at Learning 2007. A few Ken points that struck me. He has appointed himself Chief Spiritual
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Live Blog from Learning 2007

Afternoon plenary session Tuesday 23rd October 4.00 – 5.30pm. Scene Coronado Ballroom:  2,100 people in the room.  Elliott Masie leading the charge. Interviewing: John Howley, Kaye Scholar and Senior Partner. Corporate Lawyers are frustrated because all they are doing is firefighting. Talk to them about bigger strategic issues and they will love you for that. 
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