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March 25, 2010

Photos from the Sydney #sbs2010 venue - The Mint

The Social Business Summit in Sydney was held at the historic Mint, with venue services provided by the Trippas White Catering. I'm giving these guys a plug, because the quality of the venue and service was just excellent. I was also impressed by their audio-visual guy, who for a change didn't simply plug us in and then run!

BTW Just so you know, the coffees are a Long Black (mine) and a Cap for Anne. And with great serendipity, the deck chairs were there by chance but reflected perfectly our theme image for the day.

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Note: The welcome message and Headshift 'Sail' images are licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND

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March 10, 2010

The Enterprise 2.0 Breakfast comes to Melbourne

A big thank you to everyone in Melbourne for joining Anne and I for an Enterprise 2.0 breakfast. As always the conversation covered a lot of topics, mostly related one way or another to the topic of 'Enterprise 2.0'.

Howard Emery (pictured at the back of the group, in a black jacket) provided some conversational inspiration for me, with his recent guest post on the Headshift Australasia blog. As we walked over to Southbank from the hotel in the city, Anne and I ended up chatting about the differences between Sydney and Melbourne (as you do!). Naturally, we ended up talking about one of my favourites topics, which is the idea of treating information environments as a kind of urban environment that people have to navigate through - it raises all sorts of interesting questions about design, planning but also if it is possible to transplant one culture from one place to another. That conversation spilled over into the breakfast conversation, although I also ended up talking about everything from the future of intranets as being about getting things done and the challenges of encouraging senior managers to engage online with each other.

I'm expecting the next Enterprise 2.0 Breakfast will be back in Sydney, sometime in April or May. Stay tuned for details from me or Alex Manchester (over at Step Two Designs) for details.

BTW tomorrow (Thursday) I'm at the second day of the Hargraves Institute's Innovation 2010 conference, talking about Social Business Design (which coincides with the start of Social Business Summit series in Austin, Texas tomorrow too).

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January 20, 2010

Enterprise 2.0 for Breakfast this morning #e20forbreakfastsyd

Thanks to everyone who joined us for our Enterprise 2.0 meet up this morning, here in Sydney. One of the main themes in the conversation this morning was discussing our own experiences of the different organisational factors - such as internal politics, perceptions of productivity in the workplace, information security concerns and generational change - that get in the way of effectively introducing enterprise social computing.

Unfortunately, due a sporting injury, Alex wasn't was able to make it this time but hopefully he'll be recovered for our next meet up. If you couldn't make today either but would like to be invited to future meet ups, please get in touch with your twitter or email details so I can 'ping' you when we schedule our next event.

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October 29, 2009

Here at #GovHack

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I'm here at GovHack today/tonight and will be adding the odd photo during the afternoon and tonight. If you are here too, come find me and say hello! I'd love to chat about Gov 2.0.

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October 29, 2009

A wiki name tag...

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... and very appropriate for an open house at Atlassian tonight. A great oppourtunity to network with the Atlassian crew, other Atlassian partners, clients and also @trib :-)

We also heard our Webinar is attracting lots of interest which is great to hear!

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October 27, 2009

SI Camp meetup in Wollongong

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SI Camp Australia came to Wollongong tonight - the group photo above includes three Wollongong based 'techos' James Purser and Andrew Thornberry and David Holloway (aka Metaverse Journal).

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September 14, 2009

Photos from Public Sphere #3

I just found a few photos from Public Sphere #3, held in Wollongong, that I forgot to upload earlier.

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July 10, 2009

Us Now Sydney - a set on Flickr

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Thanks to Tony Hollingsworth, our unorganised photographer for Us Now Sydney. There are a few more taken by me too.

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July 9, 2009

A few photos from #usnowsydney

Based on the Twitter feedback at least, everyone enjoyed watching the Us Now movie and the panel discussion tonight at Us Now Sydney.

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July 6, 2009

Lego Reboot Britain ( #rebootbritain ) - a set on Flickr

On 6 July 2009, participants at Reboot Britain (www.rebootbritain.com) were invited to make their own idea of what would help to reboot Britain, in Lego.

Why? The idea is that building with the hands prompts different ways of thinking ... ideas emerge ... the process gives a voice to the regular delegates at this grand event with big-name speakers ... and everyone is drawn to view each others' interesting, clever, pretty models.

Make yourself a cup of tea and view the slideshow.

David Gauntlett, University of Westminster - www.makingisconnecting.org

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I watched some of Reboot Britain's live feed last night... but as that and even the Twitter stream fade, this hands on social media is an interesting memory from the event. However, to the point above about giving 'regular' delegates a voice, Julian Dobson comments in his blog that all this participatory media (Lego or otherwise) means "bog-all out there in Britain's Twitterless wastes". I have some sympathy for his point of view, but this issue of cathedral and bazaar is not a new one. Technology is enabling more people to see inside the cathedral at least, but the onus is still on those where ever they participated to go out, share and create their own bazaars where they are really needed. Its also very easy to say that social media doesn't have any impact on real people or real issues if you haven't actually given it a try - as I imagine some people would say about the Lego, why would I want to represent my ideas in little plastic building blocks? Because if it comes to nothing, it hasn't cost you anything either.

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