Not my usual well thought out – *frowns at you* – post , just some jottings on the consumer economy. BANKING 2.0 – social network personal banking and peer to peer loans will take off in a big way. Perhaps not the way Virgin Money/CircleLending, or Zopa or Prosper see it, but it will happen….
Event: I owe Maxine Sherrin and John Allsop a lot you know: Have your say in the Web Directions South 2008 program Every year the Web Directions conference brings together a group of expert speakers who have been working on interesting projects and finding ingenious and practical solutions to those same challenges the attendees face…
I’ve probably blabbed on too much about my personal odyssey to Saudi Arabia the last few days, so I will return you – albeit briefly – to our regularly scheduled programming 🙂 | View | Upload your own You might find a few slides in here interesting… I’ve been writing, blogging and presenting on the…
Background first, then Day One. Oh and thanks to Shel Israel for writing about and understanding the importance of this project. And Stilgherrian (hmmm, I think) 🙂 So Sunday is a working day in Saudi – the weekend is Thursday and Friday. I had concerns about travelling from the Hilton Hotel to the Effat College…
(Background to the “New Arab Woman’s” project) Well two things happened. One was before I even got to Saudi Arabia. I arrived in Dubai airport and realised my Nokia 95 wasn’t picking up a service provider. Somehow international roaming had got switched off. I had it on when I went to New Zealand a while…
I was trying to navigate my way around my blog – which had turned to Arabic menus at the top – and accidentally flagged it as having “objectionable content”. Now, I’m not the best blogger in the world, but I doubt I shoulda flagged my own blog as bad ‘un. I’ve since turned the blog…
Journey to Kingdom of Saudi Arabia – I fly out late tonight, Sydney time. Heigh ho, Heigh ho, it’s off to Jeddah I go. In December 2006, a major Middle East broadcaster had a writing competition. They invited young Arab women to write in and say why they mattered. As in “why do Arab women…
Candice Bergen, Joan Juliet Buck, Whoopi Goldberg, Marlo Thomas, Lily Tomlin, Joan Cooney, Judith Martin, Sheila Nevins, Julia Reed and Jane Wagner – The Women on the Web WowOwow launches on Saturday. Which women would you put on Mount Rushmore? My vote is with… Paris Hilton. Embodies everything… ah well scrap that. What’s your vote?…
Thanks to Amy Quinn for sending me the link: The Facebook Classroom: 25 Facebook Apps That Are Perfect for Online Education Published on Tuesday March 4th , 2008 By Jessica Hupp With so many students, teachers, and librarians on Facebook these days, the social media site has become somewhat of a platform, offering developers a…
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