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Our baby loves the ‘Stones’

Posted by  admin —October 27, 2008
Filed in Humor & Fun, Uncategorized

I’m approaching my 100th post and one of the most ‘shared’ images on the Web from my blog was one of my son (Hamish) sitting in a box in Byron Bay. Well, here he is again … this time grooving along to the Rolling Stones with his 2 big brothers. Proud Dad

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Social Web at IBM

Posted by  admin —October 24, 2008
Filed in How Stuff Spreads & Changes

I just discovered a whole series of Slideshare presentations from a conference. Here’s quote from the Web 2.0 Europe Expo: We love what the Europe Web 2.0 Expo is doing all around the world, and here’s the latest from their Europe conference all in one go! Click here for the whole ‘pack’ of Web 2.0 presentations Here’s a presentation that caught my eye. It relates to IBM’s global adoption of social networking and Web 2.0 applications for staff such as blogs and online forums. Seems to me that if you’re serious about Knowledge Management, adoptions of this stuff should be …

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Funny AND True

Posted by  admin —October 12, 2008
Filed in Humor & Fun

This is brilliant. Watch and enjoy … comedians have an uncanny knack of ‘shining a light’ on the absurdity of systems that we create. Hat Tip to Chris Corrigan for reminding me about this skit. Geoff

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Online collaboration via Twitter, Blogs and Slideshare

Posted by  admin —October 9, 2008
Filed in Uncategorized

It is amazing what generous offers you get from others when you make your own ideas and ‘work’ available for all to see. Jack Martin Leith, like me, is a blogger and Open Space Practitioner. Jack picked up my post to Twitter about a slideshow I created following a presentation I delivered to the Geelong College teaching community on Monday. Jack then viewed my slideshow at Slideshare and provided some great feedback … in fact he built on my ideas and now (after reading the links he provided) I understand my initial ideas more deeply than before! “I have two …

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Sir Ken is in his ‘element’

Posted by  admin —October 7, 2008
Filed in Humor & Fun, Just observations, Podcasts that Rock!

I am a big fan of Sir Ken Robinson’s ideas about creativity and education. Thanks to Garr Reynolds at Presentation Zen, here is another interview with Sir Ken. Part 1 Part 2 Sir Ken has a new book coming out in 2009 called The Element. It’s about how we find that place where we say, “I’m in my element”. For me at the moment, my element is playing with my kids, being in my vege/fruit garden and facilitating – being ‘present’ with a group and assisting them to do their very best thinking. cheers Geoff

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