My Writings. My Thoughts.
Don’t get Internode
// February 8th, 2010 // Comments // Blog, Opinion, TechnologyHaving recently moved house, I decided to ditch Optus and go with the 50gb Internode ADSL2+ Naked Plan.
Internode promised that it would take a month to install, but they would send the modem and it would be pre-configured, so I could just plug it in and start surfing.
After waiting for a month for the technician [...]
Young people don’t blog
// February 8th, 2010 // Comments // Blog, Opinion, TechnologyFor my Project 52 post, I thought I’d comment about a recent Pew report has come to my attention via DownloadSquad that says that young people are blogging less:
Pew Internet released a report yesterday called Social Media and Young Adults that shows teen blogging down by 50% over the past four years, even as blogging [...]
Highrise unions?
// February 7th, 2010 // Comments // Blog, Opinion, TechnologyJust found an interesting post by Eric Lee suggesting that union organisers use the CRM (customer relationship management) tool Highrise:
Highrise is what one user calls a “Rolodex on steroids”. At its core is a contact manager. But it is also a task manager too, and an events calendar.
It’s also completely free of charge, if you [...]
What union members want from their union’s communications
// February 6th, 2010 // Comments // Blog, CampaigningIn my line of work, I hear a lot of opinion expressed as fact. A common one is that “union members don’t want our communications to look too corporate”, or “our members want a lot of detail, not a short summary”, or “our slogan should be ’screw the boss’ or something like that”. You get [...]



