OMG I can’t even create decent real life Microsoft Powerpoint presentations. How on earth am I going to do artistic, scintillating, quirky, dynamic, whizbang presentions in Second Life?:(hat tip: @skribe on Twitter and skribe something in Second Life, possibly involved with Massively?). Got your free, open source copy of Zebra Presenter, the professional presentation and productivity suite for Second Life? This video walks you through how to use it, and make your presentations look fantastic! I did buy some cute new clothes (not the green wings, they are old) for SilkCharm yesterday. She was starting to whinge about being a Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 10:40 pm Tagged with: business, laurel papworth, Microsoft, Online Communities, second life, social networks, Twitter
Not really social networking. Actually not social networking at all. But it annoyed me. McKinsey recommend overbooking technicians to make them more productive. Let’s forget about all the delayed appointments, missing parts and lost in traffics – things that weren’t straight forward and gosh! most of the technicians that come to my house have to take/make a million cellphone calls. We’ll just assume that technicians sit around 1/2 the day because people cancelled appointments. When was the last time a technician actually showed up early – or indeed on time – at your house saying “oh I had a few Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 12:28 pm Tagged with: business, mobile, telephone lines
You analysing my blog post about me analysing Ameel’s blog where he analyses his dream. I think. From cartoonstock.com Ameel (who is studying an MBA and works in technology) had a dream that he walked into a secondhand bookstore in Melbourne and -in the dream- bought the store. I’d love to own a second hand bookstore, but I’d never get any work done. I’d be reading in the corner. That’s my dream. : Soon after my (Ameel ) dream, I stirred and, in that half-awake, half-asleep state, I realized that I had automatically started doing a full-fledged analysis of the Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 1:08 pm Tagged with: business, Online Communities, ROI, social networks, user generated content, web 2.0
Nov 262007
Shockingly slow site Ok, this is what I’m thinking. I need a business manager or something. I wish I was a guy and then I could have a wife. I just think about work and I don’t sleep properly or organise meals and I keep forgetting to put the washing machine on. I know I have deadlines to meet but there are so many, I hang around on Facebook and Twitter instead. Or fall asleep at my desk. When I get to the end of the day, I want to start it over again cos I need two days for Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 12:02 am Tagged with: business, business manager, Facebook, Hermione Granger, laurel papworth, Social Media Australia, social networks, solo consultant, Twitter
Nov 182007
I was cleaning out my Inbox (anything rather than write a report that has to be in today, or clean the house) and came across this from Sep 2006. I had notes which add up to: Hmmm, Facebook… could be huge but not sure if Australia will get it. *rolls eyes* Facebook Opens Enrollment To Everyone by Shankar Gupta, Tuesday, Sep 12, 2006 6:00 AM ET FACEBOOK.COM, WHICH BUILT ITS USER base by creating a community for only college students, will soon open its gates to all Web users, the company said Monday. The social networking site will create 500 Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 3:22 pm Tagged with: business, company spokeswoman, Online Communities, regional member, Social Media Australia, social networking site, social networks, United States, Web users
I’m never 100% sure, if a corporate blog is written by a PR person, or by a genuine C-level exec. But I can have a good guess. It doesn’t have to be the CEO, but someone with passion, a helicopter view of not only the business but the sector and someone with ability to affect change in powerful ways. Because that is what makes an addictive corporate blog – the feeling you are communicating with someone who can hear, understand and make changes. Even if they blog only once a week, dictate in a dictaphone on a plane for an Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 1:04 pm Tagged with: asia, Assistant, Bank, business, CEO, Chief Executive Officer, Cisco Systems, copywriter, e - business, finance, Head of e-Business, IngBank, Jacques Kemp, Ramin Marzbani, Regional Head, Social Media Australia, social networks, web 2.0, web-design process, writer
Oct 262007
Another paper for you. I know how you love them. Correction: I know that you know how much the C-level execs expect you to come up with the stats and ‘authoritative’ quotes. So here ya go, from IDC: Typical Reason Why Companies Deploy Social Networks Customer•Increase Web traffic with persistent engagement•Drive marketing leverage by provoking customer-to-customer communication and viral marketing•Gather real-time input from customers on their needs and wants•Provide peer-to-peer customer support (lowering customer support costs)•Increase brand awareness and loyalty•Solicit customer-driven innovation Employee•Enhance teamwork•Discover new ideas and accelerate innovation•Encourage cross-functional inputs to drive better decision making•Create a company culture of Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 2:04 pm Tagged with: business, Encourage co, IDC, intraemployee communications, Online Communities, peer to peer, social networks, viral marketing, Web traffic
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