I got the impression from some people attending the Connecting Up New Zealand conference last week that they wished the genie would quietly slip back into the bottle. The torrent of opportunities and demands unleashed through the web is just too much. Could we just return to the uncomplicated days pre-Facebook, pre-twitter, pre-everything web! This [...]
It’s one of those things that follow a predictable, immutable pattern. At the start of the year there’s a slew of new conferences and learning events sprouting up. 2012 is no different. Now is the time to start getting organised. Some will take just a trip across town, others across the sea. Some permission, others [...]
We all know time is scarce and so are resources. When it comes to starting, extending or changing an ICT initiative there’s a temptation to dive straight in. At the Technology leadership for the (sustainable) win workshop, run on the third day of Connecting Up Australia conference, NTEN Executive Director Holly Ross, was encouraging (or [...]
Now that they’re sweeping out the aisles at the Crown Convention Centre, all that I’m left is memories, screeds of scrawly notes and a heavily annotated programme. Well, that’s what I would have written before Twitter. Even though I often wonder how many tweets I will see in the second half of my life (too [...]
I don’t think I’ve ever been to a conference where people haven’t cited time as an obstacle to trying out new things. It’s a hoary chestnut and it seem to doesn’t matter what the subject is. When it comes to talking about digital technologies and online communications, as we just have at two days of [...]
Although the pragmatics of using ICTs were barely touched on at the National Not-for-profit Conference 2011, held in Auckland 17-18 March, the essential nature of the Internet as a disruptive technology was raised time and time again. Tonya Surman, fittingly beamed in over the Internet via Skype, addressed this most directly. She told delegates that not-for-profit [...]
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