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Super Moon or Perigee Moon over Redcliffe

Super Moon or Perigee Moon over Redcliffe

By on May 8, 2012 in Photography with Comments

On May 6th & 7th, the full moon was big and bright.  The biggest and brightest it has been in 18 years.  This is due to the yearly spectacle of Super Moon also known as the Perigee Moon by astrologers.

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Animals of Alma Park Zoo

Animals of Alma Park Zoo

By on April 21, 2012 in Photography with Comments

Boa Constrictors, Albino Wallabies, Baboons, Alpacas, Koala, Red Pandas, Tahr, Lemurs and Sun Bears..  This is just a small group  of the 53 species of animals you will find at Alma Park Zoo,  30 minutes north of Brisbane.   As a photographer, Alma Park Zoo is a fantastic location that provides you with many opportunities to [...]

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Thirty minutes in the Gardens with a Camera

Thirty minutes in the Gardens with a Camera

By on August 29, 2010 in Photography with Comments

To improve my photography skills with my DSLR, I decided to time box a session in an unfamiliar location.  I believe that the ability to use the resources around you and think quickly on your feet really helps to capture great photographs.

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Web Sites

Forming, Storming, Norming & Performing with Basecamp.

Forming, Storming, Norming & Performing with Basecamp.

By on September 27, 2010 in Intranets, Websites with Comments

Collaboration on group projects can be an absolute nightmare if you attempt to collaborate with the normal tools of email and meetings.  Lack of communication is common,  lack of direction occurs, deadlines are missed and a sub-standard product is delivered by the team.   This is particularly true if you are working with a newly [...]

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Social Media success stories for Intranets & Websites

Social Media success stories for Intranets & Websites

By on August 22, 2010 in Intranets, Social Media, Websites with Comments

Some incorrectly assume that Enterprise 2.0 is a term used to describe the use of consumer-orientated Web 2.0 tools (Facebook,  LinkedIn,  Twitter) by businesses to improve their communications internally and externally.    Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 do share a similar foundation as highlighted by Andrew McAffee’s SLATES model, however there are significant differences between [...]

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Social Media & Social Workplace :: Differences & Common Themes.

Social Media & Social Workplace :: Differences & Common Themes.

By on August 17, 2010 in Intranets, Social Media, Websites with Comments

Most believe that Enterprise 2.0 and Web 2.0 are the same concept.  In fact, they are two individual concepts built on the same foundations

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Social Media

Measuring the success of Social Media

Measuring the success of Social Media

By on January 29, 2013 in Social Media with Comments

Many believe it is just too hard to measure the return of investment of Social Media.   Lux Narayan wrote an article earlier this year for Forbes titled Three Reasons Why There’s No Measuring ROI on Social Media.   In his article he states that the three primary reasons that ROI can not be measured for Social [...]

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Facebook Places :: Like or Dislike?

Facebook Places :: Like or Dislike?

By on August 28, 2010 in Social Media with Comments

Facebook Places is the new geolocation feature released by Facebook this week.  Places allows you to share your location and see where your friends are in relation to you so that you can connect with them easily.   Places also offers significant functionality to businesses with Facebook profiles.    These businesses now have the opportunity to [...]

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Publishing Twitter tweets as a Newspaper.

Publishing Twitter tweets as a Newspaper.

By on August 28, 2010 in Social Media with Comments

Twitter has well established its status as an online news source.  I use Twitter to find and share links to interesting articles about design, usability, photography, dog training, social media and technology.  Owing to the broad range of topics, sometimes I can tweet / share up to 50 or 70 links a day with the [...]

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Intranets

Traditional Intranets are failing…

Traditional Intranets are failing…

By on October 3, 2011 in Intranets with Comments

In today’s social media environment where the speed and creation of sharing knowledge is changing, the traditional Intranet is struggling to keep up the growing needs of a modern organisation.  This infographic produced by Social Cast looks at:

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Design Principles & Strategies for Collaborative Intranets

Design Principles & Strategies for Collaborative Intranets

By on October 5, 2010 in Intranets with Comments

A thriving Intranet should be a place to engage employees and compel them to return not only to consult a reliable source of information but to also participate, exchange ideas and innovate. Websites evolved from static HTML pages of the Web 1.0 era to engaging Web 2.0 online communities like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.

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Yamming on with Yammer in Suncorp.

Yamming on with Yammer in Suncorp.

By on September 28, 2010 in Intranets with Comments

“I thought Yammer was quiet” was the response from one of my colleagues when he discovered I was on annual leave this week.   In mid-2009,  Suncorp began using Yammer to provide staff with a platform to collaborate in an informal and immediate manner.   I was one of the early adopters of Yammer in Suncorp and [...]

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Measuring the success of Social Media

By on January 29, 2013 in Social Media with Comments
Measuring the success of Social Media

Many believe it is just too hard to measure the return of investment of Social Media.   Lux Narayan wrote an article earlier this year for Forbes titled Three Reasons Why There’s No Measuring ROI on Social Media.   In his article he states that the three primary reasons that ROI can not be measured for Social [...]

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Super Moon or Perigee Moon over Redcliffe

By on May 8, 2012 in Photography with Comments
Super Moon or Perigee Moon over Redcliffe

On May 6th & 7th, the full moon was big and bright.  The biggest and brightest it has been in 18 years.  This is due to the yearly spectacle of Super Moon also known as the Perigee Moon by astrologers.

Continue Reading »

Animals of Alma Park Zoo

By on April 21, 2012 in Photography with Comments
Animals of Alma Park Zoo

Boa Constrictors, Albino Wallabies, Baboons, Alpacas, Koala, Red Pandas, Tahr, Lemurs and Sun Bears..  This is just a small group  of the 53 species of animals you will find at Alma Park Zoo,  30 minutes north of Brisbane.   As a photographer, Alma Park Zoo is a fantastic location that provides you with many opportunities to [...]

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