May, 2009

Dealing with the hysteria on swine flu includes blogging and this CEO message, which seeks to correct some “false” and “sensational” media reporting.

My buddy, and social media educator extraordinaire, Lee Hopkins has produced a Twitter report and is giving it away for the next 7 days. Says (spuiks?) Lee: But as a loyal and valuable reader of this blog, I’m giving you just 7 days to naba free copy of the Twitter Mastery for Business report as a way of saying “thank [...]

I used these notes in an in-house session in Sydney last week. They may not makes sense on their own, but if you would like clarification feel free to email me or leave a comment below.

Every few years fads change in the centralisation versus decentralisation, as managers search for improvements in service delivery that also deliver cost savings. Most sensible people recognise that this combination of outcomes (better quality, lower costs) can only be achieved in rare circumstances (notably consumer electronics, personal computing). The debate around centralisation / decentralisation can [...]

From Mark Colvin on Twitter: Asked wolfram alpha ‘What is truth?’ Answer: ‘Additional functionality for this topic is under development’. The search goes on. I tried it and found that you can also leave your email address and be ‘notified when it is ready?’.

The News website has been making great fun with their Clare the Bogan story all day, but is the joke on them? Is it the Pauline Hanson photos fiasco all over again? Update: I now have reason to believe that she is real and went to Stella Maris College in Manly. Update 2 (Sunday morning): [...]

Traditionally, the Finance Minister is the tough guy. The Finance Minister is the one that imposes fiscal discipline on his more or less unwilling colleagues all of whom are usually keen to protect their patch and deliver the goodies for their portfolio’s clients. As Peter Walsh (pretty much the creator of the tradition) used to [...]

The Rudd Government is keen to cut middle class welfare, but when do you become middle class: when it comes to employee shares – a pretty modest income of $60,000 when it comes to student allowances, ‘middle class rorting’ seems to kick in at a family income of $80,000 when it comes to private health [...]

As we all know, the media are herd animals and as befits these ‘hard’ times the Columbia Journalism Review has been tracking what it calls the ‘frugality beat’.  We’ve seen a bit of this stuff locally too. For instance, the Gladstone Observer has a useful piece, “Tackle recession blues with books“, the fairfax media recently [...]

It’s a fantastic experience, especially if, like me, you’ve loved the novel for decades and read it many times. James Gatz — that was really, or at least legally, his name. One morning in the low-rent office of a mysterious small business, one employee finds a ragged old copy of The Great Gatsby in the [...]