Who the hell cares where you’re having coffee and with whom. Why should I be impressed that you have 100,000 Facebook friends and 1 million twitter followers. Really just get over it and let’s move on. I hear these rants everyday from my audiences and clients as they collectively pray that Social Media will disappear. […]
The online virtual world most of us take for granted is only 20 years old. In the very short space of two decades we have eagerly and voraciously moved our lives and businesses into it and become dependent on it. Look around you and see people everywhere staring longingly at their mobile screens, checking status, […]
Australia has 2.5 doctors for every 1,000 people, Uganda has 0.08 for every 1,000 people; America has 2.7, India has 0.6., so how do you cope with 60 people contracting and 1.9 people dying of tuberculosis every minute and 91% of these deaths being in Africa. Part of the answer is in the most unexpected […]
Australia has announced it will ease student visa restrictions but researchers say the way the overseas education system works will change markedly as more people have internet access. Adelaine Ng of ABC Australia radio and I jumped into the debate on the future of higher education to discuss where we may be headed and how […]
This weeks segment marks my sixth year on 6PR Perth radio and we kicked off with Jason Jordan and I talking about the world of possibilities that exist online and offered through our nearly 7 billion people on this planet. We chatted about CrowdFunding and the ability to get loans and investors for your projects, […]
Reprinted from Virgin Australia’s in flight magazine Voyeur – August 2011 With a new breed of contactless credit and debit cards, and apps tipped to transform your smartphone into a digital wallet, a cashless society seems to be on the cards.Not so long ago, in an airplane similar to this one, overseas travellers kept a […]
