Author Archive for Michael Bromley
Crowdsourcing…An Experiment.
The power of the people. That is the battle cry of the internet these days. The gathering of people online and the subsequent distribution of their home-produced content are supposed to be at the heart of the revolution we used to call Web 2.0. We’ve all read a lot about the impact of social media on our world today [...]
Netbooks…just say No!
I have had a long standing feud with my Macbook. I don’t like it and it has never liked me. Oh, I tried, I bought the thing hoping that I could be one of those people who convert after years of PC use. I mean I loved my iPod, love my iPhone even more but [...]
Cloud Computing
Here is the slide show from my recent Cloud Computing presentation to AMP
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Building Social Media Champions
Recently I was asked: “How do you think people in the middle of a corporation/organisation can effectively drive the use of social media to build more meaningful relationships with communities of shared interest” It’s an interesting question because it assumes (rightly so I think) that you can’t build social media use from the top down. [...]
Reaching The Other Side
So as it turns out getting my own site hosted with a custom domain was the easy part. Once I secured the domain and set up WordPress (WP) I had a lot of work ahead of me. In order to have a functioning, professional looking, site I needed to find a base theme & customise it to [...]
Bridging the Gap
So I’m making progress on developing my blog. If you recall I was trying to figure out whether I am trying to simply get my point of view out there or whether I am looking to build the most professional and entertaining site possible. I decided to take the plunge and see if I could create something more professional. However, [...]
The Great Blog Gap
Now that I’m 6 months into my blogging career (and I use the term losely) I’ve come to a crossroads. I want more from my blog site than my blog site provider, Wordpress, offers beginners via wordpress.com and I’m not quite technical enough to be able to jump right into the more technical skills that wordpress [...]
Privacy Isn’t Dead…But It’s On Life Support
The death of privacy is only slightly exaggerated. In truth death is imminent, the question is do we, or should we, care?
The advent of social media coupled with the average teenagers lust for attention means that many things that used to be private to us old folks just aren’t private to the average Gen. Y’er. [...]
Virtual Private Clouds
Where does the web, now in early adulthood, go from here? The answer is up in the clouds! Now that we are always on and always connected with eachother the web can play a new role for both consumers and enterprise. The web can become what our computers couldn’t quite handle on their own. The [...]
Happy 20th Birthday World Wide Web!
Now that the Web has nearly reached the drinking age (the US drinking age anyway) it makes sense to look at how she has grown up over the last 20 years. For those of you who didn’t already know Tim Berners-Lee and the team at CERN invented the World Wide Web in 1989 to make information [...]
The Case for Enterprise Portals
The web has empowered customers and they know it. This is the basic premise for much of Enterprise 2.0. It’s also the best case for enterprise portals. We seem to have reached a tipping point with the web now enabling a shift in online behavior and expectations. Customers now demand more and different behavior from [...]
Enterprise & Social Media…its coming!
Social media for enterprise…kinda doesn’t sound right does it? The separation of work life from social life is a mainstay of the Australian lifestyle. We all want work/life balance so do we even want enterprise in the game & how do you do it without making a mess? The answer is ‘yes’ we want enterprise in [...]
Family 2.0
In the circles I travel in a lot of technical terms get thrown around lazily. I won’t get into the detail but I spend my days in the technology centric world of the online team in a telecommunications company so the jargon runs heavy and thick like molasses in a heatwave. Most of it is nothing [...]
Ping me!
Well it didn’t take that long or that much effort to find what I was looking for. Ping.fm is the Write Once Post Everywhere application I’ve been searching for. For those of you with multiple social media accounts this is your carpel tunnel salvation. Sign up for a Ping account and you can post a status [...]
Social Media for Enterprise
I’m interested in ways to use social networks (public and private) and other social media for enterprise. I think there is a definite use for internal communications and collaboration and idea sharing. Critical mass and a bit of a paradigm shift are all that is necessary to jump-start the activity.
My challenge to you all is [...]
WR.O.P.E them in
It occurs to me, while posting to my Facebook account, my Twitter account, my Yammer account, this blog, and my private social network that a lot of time can be wasted just telling people what you’re doing. What I need is an application that allows me to write once and post everywhere I want to [...]
Ockham’s K.I.S.S.
Its amazing how principles like Ockham’s razor and K.I.S.S. continue to be relevant in today’s complex modern world. I read a blog on Gizmodo today about Graeme Davies who invented an ice-cube tray called Quicksnap that allows you to release a single ice cube without the normal problems associated with twisting an ice tray. Brilliant, [...]
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fu·tur·ism (fyōō’chə-rĭz’əm) Pronunciation Key n.
A belief that the meaning of life and one’s personal fulfillment lie in the future and not in the present or past.
What I like about this definition is that it is short, simple, to the point and cannot be confused with any other ism’s. I believe in the future and that is just [...]
