Monthly Archives: June 2007
The front page of the IT section in today’s Australian Financial Review sports as its largest story a review of our Web 2.0 in Australia event, titled “Start-ups weave future around social web”. It starts off: “It’s a dreary Sydney afternoon in early June, but social media consultant Ross Dawson couldn’t be happier. He’s surrounded
Continue reading Technology innovation and making the leap from smaller markets
The June issue of BOSS magazine has a very interesting piece titled “Lost in Translation”, which examines the role of building a shared corporate language for employees and clients. (The article is currently available online though AFR often takes these offline after a period.) The article quotes me as follows: “Management consultant Ross Dawson, from
Continue reading The role of shared corporate language in staff and client communication
There’s currently a massive discussion going on in the blogosphere about a series of Microsoft ads in which they asked prominent bloggers such as Michael Arrington, Om Malik, Fred Wilson, and Richard MacManus (the links are to their comments on the brouhaha) to say what they thought the term “people-ready” meant. These were compiled in
Continue reading The increasingly tight limits of propriety for bloggers
David Casaleggio, a media and network consultant based in Milan, let me know about an extremely interesting short video he’s created on the future of media. He has created versions in English, as below, and also subtitled in Japanese and Spanish (recognizing the global nature of media markets). A few highlights in the second half
Continue reading Prometeus: In the media revolution, experience is the new reality
Hmmm…. Not sure whether to take this as a compliment. Cameron Reilly of The Podcast Network and I caught up last week after we both spoke at the Evolve conference. Cameron wrote on his blog : “Caught a taxi to the airport with Ross Dawson and we had a great chat about the Singularity. Ross
This one minute interview of Adrian McDermott, Vice President of Engineering at BEA, was made in conjunction with the Web 2.0 in Australia event. The video was produced by One Minute World, which specializes in one minute video content for streaming and mobile devices. Adrian discusses BEA’s initiatives in applying Web 2.0 in the enterprise.
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The recent Web 2.0 in Australia event was a fabulous success. However because it was an invitation only event with space for just 100 people, many who wanted to were unable to attend. Fortunately, the fine folk at Viocorp, one of Australia’s leading Internet broadcasting companies, very generously made a video of all key proceedings
Continue reading Complete video of Web 2.0 in Australia event
This one minute interview of Ross Dawson, Chairman of Future Exploration Network, was made in conjunction with the Web 2.0 in Australia event. The video was produced by One Minute World, which specializes in one minute video content for streaming and mobile devices. Ross talks about the seven fundamental characteristics of Web 2.0 described in
Continue reading Video interview of Ross Dawson, Future Exploration Network
This one minute interview of Richard MacManus, Editor and Publisher of Read/Write Web, was made in conjunction with the Web 2.0 in Australia event. The video was produced by One Minute World, which specializes in one minute video content for streaming and mobile devices. Richard talks about his new blogs Alt Search Engines and Last100.com,
Continue reading Video interview of Richard MacManus, Read/Write Web
This one minute interview of Mick Liubinskas, Chief Customer Officer of Tangler, was made in conjunction with the Web 2.0 in Australia event, where Tangler was showcased as one of the leading examples of Web 2.0 in Australia. The video was produced by One Minute World, which specializes in one minute video content for streaming
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This one minute interview of Richard Giles of Scouta was made in conjunction with the Web 2.0 in Australia event, where Scouta was showcased as one of the leading examples of Web 2.0 in Australia. The video was produced by One Minute World, which specializes in one minute video content for streaming and mobile devices.
This one minute interview of Phil Morle of Omnidrive was made in conjunction with the Web 2.0 in Australia event, where Omndrive was showcased as one of the leading examples of Web 2.0 in Australia. The video was produced by One Minute World, which specializes in one minute video content for streaming and mobile devices.
This one minute interview of Peter Russell of KPMG was made in conjunction with the Web 2.0 in Australia event. The video was produced by One Minute World, which specializes in one minute video content for streaming and mobile devices. Peter talks about the benefits and applications of Web 2.0 for corporates.
This one minute interview of Brad Howarth, freelance journalist and Director of Lagrange Communications, was made in conjunction with the Web 2.0 in Australia event. The video was produced by One Minute World, which specializes in one minute video content for streaming and mobile devices. Brad talks about the state of Web 2.0 in Australia,
Continue reading Video interview of Brad Howarth, Lagrange Communications
This one minute interview of Ben Naftzger, Sales Director of Atlassian, was made in conjunction with the Web 2.0 in Australia event, where Atlassian was showcased as one of the leading examples of Web 2.0 in Australia. The video was produced by One Minute World, which specializes in one minute video content for streaming and
This one minute interview of Allan Aaron, General Partner of venture capital firm Technology Venture Partners, was made at the time of the Web 2.0 in Australia event. The video was produced by One Minute World, which specializes in one minute video content for streaming and mobile devices. Allan discusses shifts in the Web 2.0
Continue reading Video interview of Allan Aaron, Technology Venture Partners
Kimberly Palmer of Networx has put together what looks like a fantastic conference on 14 June in Melbourne, titled Evolve. Its highly diverse content is refreshing after the usual run-of-the-mill marketing events. I’ll be doing a keynote titled: We, Evolved: networks of influence: The power of the social network – word of mouth, buzz, curation
Continue reading Keynote speech on influence networks at Evolve
There are countless guides to venture capital for budding entrepreneurs on the web. Marc Andreesen, the founder of the seminal VC success story Netscape and the recently launched Ning (an extremely interesting social networking platform), among many other ventures, has provided his own guide in a three part series: Part 1: VC basics and what
Continue reading The coming segmentation of venture capital as an asset class
A few initial reflections on the Web 2.0 in Australia event held yesterday… Overall it was a great success, with 100 over invited guests filling the KPMG conference facility, and all requests for invitations having been turned away over the last couple of weeks since we reached capacity. Everything ran smoothly on the day, and
Continue reading Web 2.0 in Australia: The birth of Silicon Harbour?
Partly as we’ve decided to grow the events part of our business, we’re looking for someone really exceptional who can help to make that happen. In addition to the Future of Media Summit coming up in Sydney and San Francisco, we’re planning a number of events related to Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 for later
Continue reading Job ad: Exceptional events manager (technology/ future) – Part-time Sydney
The Web 2.0 in Australia event is way overbooked. We’ve been turning away all requests for invitations for some time, including from senior executives from organizations such as Commonwealth Bank, Telstra, and the Federal Department of Finance, and from a whole host of very cool entrepreneurs who we would have just loved to have along.
I am behind on my blogging, so I thought I’d make some very brief comments about a host of extremely interesting announcements that have come out this week. Google acquires Feedburner. Feedburner has been prominent in enabling the world of RSS. This acquisition, estimated to be worth $100 million, makes eminent sense for Google in
Continue reading A week of hot news on the web: Trade sales mark the boom
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Ross Dawson is globally recognized as a leading futurist, entrepreneur, keynote speaker, strategy advisor, and bestselling author. He is Founding Chairman of AHT Group, which consists of 3 companies: consulting, publishing, and ventures firm Advanced Human Technologies, future and strategy firm Future Exploration Network, and events company The Insight Exchange.
Ross is author most recently of Implementing Enterprise 2.0, the prescient Living Networks, which anticipated the social network revolution, and the Amazon.com bestseller Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships (click on the links for free chapter downloads). He is based in Sydney and San Francisco with his wife jewellery designer Victoria Buckley and two beautiful young daughters.
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Future of the Media Lifecycle
Future of Media: Strategy Tools
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SAP White Paper: Service Delivery Innovation
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CNET/ University of Virginia White Paper: How Technology Purchasing Decisions Are Really Made
PM Network magazine's lead article on virtual teamwork (440KB), featuring Ross Dawson on the cover
Microsoft Strategic White Paper: How To Lock-in Your Clients (1.1MB)
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