Dreamforce 2012 conference San Francisco

Well today is the day! We are off on our journey to the US of A where I will be presenting at the upcoming Dreamforce conference! I can’t tell you how excited I am to be presenting at such an amazing international event. There are over 85,000 attendees on site and four full days of great keynote presentations, sessions and hands on training. If you happen to be at Dreamforce, please come...

The 3 C’s of Social Media, Connecting, Collaborating & Communicating for Business

The 3 C’s of Social Media, Connecting, Collaborating & Communicating for Business… Thanks to the ladies at The Westside Business Women’s network I’ll be speaking about connecting, collaborating and communicating for business. The event will be held on Wednesday 25th July 2012 at the Springfield Lake Hotel, Ipswich, Qld. You can find more information about the event at the...

Reasons for people not following back on Twitter

Liz Borod Wright over at Mashable has a great little insight article into 8 reasons people don’t follow you back on Twitter. I liked this article and thought I’d link to it from here on my blog because I agree with the recommendations Liz makes. In summation those reasons people don’t follow back on Twitter may be, you don’t have a profile picture, something I always...

Chris Brown tries to delete Tweet, FAILS!

Chris Brown tries to delete Twitter snark, but as we know, once it’s there… I don’t like calling people out, but singer Chris Brown is such a contemptible idiot I figured this was worth a post as it yet again shows us that once something is on Twitter, it’s never going to disappear. Brown took to Twitter to vent his anger to those people who had dissed his Grammy performance....

Social Media Presentation for ACELG Canberra

Guest speaker for social media at Australian Centre of Excellence in Local Government, Canberra At the beginning of December I was lucky enough to be invited to speak at the Social Media Roundtable at the Australian Centre of Excellence in Local Government, being held at the University of Canberra. For those of you who don’t know what the ACELG do, they’re doing some great work with...

Does Social Media Simply Mask Your Misery? – 3AW Melbourne Radio Segment

Social media speaker on 3AW radio Today I chatted with the lovely Peter Maher on 3AW Melbourne radio in his Drive with Peter Maher show (hoping to put the audio up soon). The topic was whether increasing computer/mobile phone/social media use is merely a way to mask our misery. The topic arose from a great article written by Pico Iver, entitled “The Joy of Quiet”. In it, Iver...