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Category Archives: Social
Articles relating to social media, social collaboration and how we can communicate better.
Social tools have become the norm in many software solutions with dedicated (Skype for Business, Microsoft Teams, Slack, Yammer, Facebook for Work) and add-on (Chatter, SharePoint and many others) become part of the day to day working life.
Despite social collaboration being normal in personal life the switch over to an enterprise setting is extremely challenging for many companies.
Here I compare and contrast personal vs enterprise and share my experience working as a APAC Head of Social Collaboration.
Modern Day Dating
I’ve recently had a resurgence on the dating front and it’s got me researching, thinking and talking frequently about the concept of modern day dating.
And things have subtly changed.
I read that just because we have technology doesn’t mean we are allowed to be cold and heartless when it comes to dating. We should still open the car door for ladies and buy them flowers. Hold on. When in the last twenty years has it been fashionable to open the car door for a woman? The only friend I have that did that was ridiculed out of existence. I ignored most of that article.
The State of the Art Mix Tape and Reviews
As part of WA/foundation day/WAMI the state government are hosting the State of the Art festival. All Western Australian acts and it’s a seriously great line up for just $20. 11 hours of music. See you there!
For the full list of artists playing at your festival please see http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/news/local/32622/State-of-the-Art-set-times
Here’s my list of bands, an example of their songs in YouTube and my snippet reviews. Continue reading The State of the Art Mix Tape and Reviews
The Parklife Mix Tape and Reviews
I’m a little excited about Parklife this year. The line up seems to be a little more diverse than last year and also a lot deeper in talent. Last year had a couple of big acts but this year is going to have me rocking all day.
But as with a lot of music I have no idea who plays what song until I hear it. So to help any one else out who has the same problem, here is my Parklife mix tape of all the artists that are playing at Parklife with a few extras thrown in for the Perth locals that are playing at my event.
For the full list of artists playing at your festival please see www.parklife.com.au/artists
Here’s my list of the bands playing, a YouTube link to an example of my snippet like review of each: Continue reading The Parklife Mix Tape and Reviews
Twitter: Like Facebook But You Choose Your Friends!
It’s the age old question: If you could have any five people over for dinner, who would they be? For me the answer is:
- My favourite philosopher (or interpreter of philosophy): Alain de Botton (@alaindebotton)
- My favourite porn star: Sophie Moone (@SophieMoone)
- The president of The United States of America: Barack Obama (@BarackObama)
- Universal man of controversy and sheikh of tweak: Shane Warne (@warne888), and
- Lead singer from one of my favourite bands: Zack de la Rocha (Rage Against The Machine) (@ZackdelaRocha – this one is unconfirmed though as he’s never tweeted.)
That’s some list of people in my opinion. And you know what? I get to hear from most of them every day. The power of Twitter is that I can connect with some of the most prominent people in the world on the topics that I care about. What I left out above includes the subject matter experts from the technologies I work with (Enterprise Content Management and Android), my favourite journalists and people involved in defending Australia and the world from censorship.
I’m sorry real friends but you really need to pick your game up. We’re reaching our quarter life crisis and what have we got to show? A sports presenter, a PhD candidate scientist, content management specialist at the United Nations, and a model. I know this is harsh as many of you are world specialists in your chosen fields but I think we can do better!
So the real power of twitter is that it lets us connect straight to the people we are interested in. Facebook is sort of trialing this – you can like our favourite bands and brands but I don’t think it’s really the same. I don’t feel the same connection. Let’s face it, Facebook is for friends and should keep trying to improve on that market. It’s probably a pretty good market too as most people I’ve met have friends.
And Twitter? Is it going to take off because we can choose friends so much better than our own? Maybe not. Twitters big problem is that you can choose your friends, but not what they talk about. And most people talk a fair bit of garbage. I think Twitter might have a chance of fixing this though. I’d love to see a channel feature where you could just connect to the relevant material until you think you want to know more about a person. I know I already post a fair bit more to Twitter than I do to Facebook and if they can get some focus on relevancy they might become
a real power.
Either way happy communicating!
P.S. If any of the people on my dinner wish list can make dinner some time then just drop me a line. My calendar is always open.