Monthly Archives: November 2008

Celebrate at the 10th Annual Self-Employed and Entrepreneurs Xmas Drinks! Sydney, 16 December

Ross Dawson, November 30, 2008 at 9:34 pm

In 1996, when I left the world of corporate employment to do my own thing, I soon realized that not only do you not have anyone organizing a Christmas party for you, you may have no-one or very few people to party with. So together with some of my self-employed and entrepreneurial friends, we decided

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Design our new logo – get rich and famous!

Ross Dawson, November 28, 2008 at 12:15 am

The existing logo for Advanced Human Technologies was designed in 1997. Not only has the world changed a lot since then, it is now becoming a very different company. It is time for a complete rebranding, starting with the logo, and including a complete redesign of the website, which is also sorely out of date.

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Future of Media Framework adapted into Portuguese

Ross Dawson, November 25, 2008 at 1:14 pm

The Future of Media Strategic Framework is still getting plenty of attention 2 1/2 years since it was created – we’re up to around 150,000 downloads and it is still used extensively by companies and consultants in strategy development. I regularly hear new stories of how it’s been used, and I continue to use it

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Quick review of Online Social Networking & Business Collaboration World event

Ross Dawson, November 24, 2008 at 11:48 pm

Oof! Well hopefully my last 13 blog posts as I chaired ONSBCW over the last two days have been useful to people, and not annoyed any faithful readers. Between Jenny Williams on Twitter, myself blogging, and various other people twittering and blogging, we had the event pretty well covered . It would have been nice

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Online Social Networking & Business Collaboration World – Paul Slakey

Ross Dawson, November 23, 2008 at 3:57 pm

I’m at Day One of Online Social Networking & Business Collaboration World, where I’m chairing the plenary sessions and enterprise streams. Other posts: RIchard Kimber, CEO of Friendster, presentation Rebekah Horne, head of Fox Interactive Media Australia and Europe, presentation Francisco Cordero, GM Australa, Bebo, presentation CEO panel Enterprise stream – Part 1 Enterprise stream

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Who is going to take the lead in corporate virtual worlds?

Ross Dawson, November 21, 2008 at 2:22 pm

Since virtual worlds commenced, the promise of using virtual worlds in corporate settings has been evident. The first wave of business involvement in virtual worlds was primarily about marketing and customer engagement – I have written about marketing in virtual worlds and was interviewed on ABC TV about virtual advertising. From here, a key focus

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Rhetoric and realities of transparency

Ross Dawson, November 17, 2008 at 7:19 pm

In my blog post on financial transparency in start-ups a couple of days ago I referred to a blog post I wrote last year on how Path101 was becoming a ‘naked start-up’, blogging their Monday meetings and being fully open about their business. Nigel Burke pointed out in a comment that Path101 had soon discontinued

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Detailed financial results from an iPhone developer: what they are earning

Ross Dawson, November 16, 2008 at 11:51 am

Following my post yesterday on financial transparency my brother Graham released complete sales and financial details for his OzWeather iPhone app. This should prove extremely useful to those who are developing iPhone apps or considering doing so. Covered in his detailed post are daily revenue data since the app’s release, estimates of development costs, and

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The ‘Minority Report’ user interface is here

Ross Dawson, November 15, 2008 at 7:01 pm

The film Minority Report featured a user interface in which Tom Cruise’s character controlled computer screens and information using gestures, while wearing special gloves. This was at the time the best representation of what I have long thought was a natural and inevitable direction for user interfaces. I’ve written about the shift to richer computer

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Getting successful iPhone apps to market: the experience of Oz Weather

Ross Dawson, November 6, 2008 at 4:16 pm

My brother Graham Dawson moved to Sydney at the beginning of this year. It’s been great to have him around, not least to tap his tech expertise! Graham launched his first iPhone app on Sunday, and it’s already selling extremely well. It’s aimed at the Australian market and provides weather forecasts, detailed current weather and

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Webcast Keynote: Creating Business Value from Web 2.0

Ross Dawson, November 4, 2008 at 1:19 am

This Thursday November 5 at 11am US Pacific Time I’ll be doing the keynote for a webcast on Creating Business Value from Web 2.0, targeted to the manufacturing sector. Webcast viewing is free with registration. The description of my presentation is: Creating Business Value from Web 2.0 Business technology is being transformed. Web 2.0-style technologies

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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.