Category Archives: Twitter

IBR Conference ‘Web 3.0 Investigating the future of social media: 2012 Forum

Here are the slides from my recent presentation at the International Business Review Conference: ‘Web 3.0 Investigating the future of social media: 2012 Forum’ at The Sofitel Wentworth, Sydney, Australia. My fellow Day One presenters included: Alex Brown of Virgin Media (UK), Simon Townsend of Deloitte, Rod McGuiness of the ABC and Sean Herron of NASA (USA). Social Technology &

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Cybermedicine Symposia

Following an invitation from Clinical director and obstetrician to the rugby stars, Dr Vijay Roach, I recently presented a lecture on social media and medicine at the Northern Clinical School, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney Australia. Here are a copy of the slides presented As always, please don’t hesitate to contact me, should you have any questions.

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Twitter: What’s the point?

Last night’s dinner conversation centred around ‘the point’ of Twitter. It’s an interesting and often posed question that for me, has more to do about your exposure to micro-blogging technology, than what generation you belong to. Nielsen Wire have recently asked the same question and provided metrics, by positioning Twitter amongst other social media sites with micro-blogging capability. While I

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Vice Chancellor & Journos Rob Students of Deserved Victory

To Tweet or Not to Tweet, was never the question. At last night’s debate in the opulence that is the University of Sydney’s Great Hall, the debate between the Students and Alumni centred on one question: Would Shakespeare have tweeted? University of Sydney Vice-Chancellor Doctor Michael Spence, ABC Journo Adam Spencer and Good Living Editor Julie someone or other –

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Knowledge Production: A Social Process

Jacques Derrida claims that the process of writing is fundamentally changed by the way we write. Marshall McLuhan on the other hand points to the medium as ‘the message’, while German sociologist Niklas Luhmann opines ‘man is not able to communicate; only communication is able to communicate’. Three different men, three different opinions. Nothing new about that. Or is there?

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Social Media: Hype or Communications Revolution?

No matter who I am speaking with, everyone wants to know about social media and how to best use it for their business. The most frightening thing for me is the inflexibility from business owners and senior management teams. Used to throwing money at marketing and sales activities, this group of learned corporates expect this new media channel to fit

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>ABC Twitterer Gets Tweeted

>Take one little piece of social media, an ABC journalist (with an opinion), a national, government news corporation (and no it’s not North Korea), 24 hours out from an election, what do you get? News.Where are the clearly delineated lines of independent, unbiased reporting and professional opinion? Is there room for diversity of opinion in news reporting at the ABC?

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