Australia 2009: ZDNet Predictions

Enterprise 2.0, Featured, Online Communities, press, social media, Social Media Australia, social networks 1 Response »

Jan 232009

Neerav and I were asked, amongst others for our predictions on 2009. Technology, social media, computing, enterprise etc.

ZdNet technology predictions

Giant Aussie 2009 predictions round-up

Carlton Taya Avaya South Pacific MD
Craig Scroggie Symantec A/NZ MD
Chris Disspain auDA CEO
David Jackman Pronto Software MD
Deena Shiff Telstra Business group MD
Dereck Daymond Sybase A/NZ MD
Doug Farber salesforce.com APAC VP operations
Geoffrey Dirago Attain IT GM
Gerard Florian Dimension Data Australia CTO
Greg Spears Vodafone spokesperson
James Turner IBRS analyst
Joe Kremer Dell Australia MD
Kevin McIsaac IBRS analyst
Laurel Papworth social networks strategist (ME!)
Mark Phibbs Adobe APAC marketing director
Melbourne IT spokesperson
Neerav Bhatt blogger librarian internet marketer
Sarah Carter FaceTime Communications
Paul Harapin VMware A/NZ MD
Peter McAlpine Adobe Australia MD
Rob Mackinnon IBRS analyst
Paul Fitzgerald GHS consulting director
Steve Hitchman MIP MD
Warren Chaisatien Telsyte research director
Tracey Fellows Microsoft Australia MD
Wendy Reid EMC A/NZ marketing director

You can read these people here at ZdNet. Blame Renai Lemay if we are wrong. He shouldn’t have published it with verifying the predictions first. Heh. Oh and Anonymous isn’t allowed. We stand and fall on our predictions. By the way, if your name is here and you blog or tweet, let me know? I’ll link to you.

Australia Social Network: Customer Service and The Future

customer service, Featured, podcast, Social Media Australia, social networks 5 Responses »

Oct 302008

Miss me? I’m still in Singapore, teaching Social Media campaigns and how to build branded microcommunities for the Singapore Government. I’ll be back next week. In the meantime, here’s an interview I did with Choice Magazine on the future of social networking: In the future, we will turn to the internet to get a job, for a loan and to take out health insurance, but we’ll apply through our online social network. And this will give rise to the development of peer-to-peer economies. These are just a few of the developments that Laurel Papworth is anticipating. The internet strategist works Continue Reading…

The Australian Government Consultation Blog

blogs, Online Communities, Politics, Social Media Australia 6 Responses »

Sep 252007

Just to balance out the previous post:I posted up on bloggerati australia back in Mid-August the AustralianIT article about a proposed Consultation blog by Canberra. TechCrunch’ Duncan Riley (Australian Government Proves Why Blogging Is Best Left To Everyone Else) (who hat tips Des Walsh) brought the finalised paper to the attention of Priscilla who posted it on blogger Senator Andrew Bartlett Facebook wall. Now it’s my turn to have a little say: As the success of this initiative requires participation by citizens, this paper asks for your opinion on some important issues that will affect the ways you can contribute Continue Reading…

Australia: voiceanddata.com.au interview: – Whirlpool.net.au

Marketing, Social Media Australia, social networks 1 Response »

Aug 042007

I did an interview with Andrew Collins for voiceanddata.com.au a while ago. Just found it today. I really need to set that Yahoo pipes thing up properly for my name – Google Alerts sucks. In the interview, I talked about the impact of anti-marketing by customers on companies.: Social networks strategist Laurel Papworth also agrees, warning corporations they’ll be ‘blitzed’ if they don’t offer customers avenues of expression. To demonstrate the effects of neglecting Web 2.0, she points to the story of Sky Handling Partner, a cargo handling company. The company allegedly misplaced one customer’s luggage, leading the customer to Continue Reading…