The Australian government is gaining momentum in its Government 2.0 initiatives, marked today by the launch by the Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) of a handy Government 2.0 Primer. The Report of the Australian Government 2.0 Taskforce was submitted in December 2009. has pushed the ante up. Government 2.0 Government 2.0 MORE >>

Peter Bromberg over at ALA Learning is asking about how you create a culture of curiosity , something that's been on my mind of late. He points out that curiosity is the. only known antidote to the single biggest block to learning: the idea that we already have the answer (and it’s 1 st cousin, “I don’t care about the answer”.)  and what if? MORE >>

One of the many reasons I find Twitter fascinating is that the company seems endlessly at an inflection point. Eighteen months ago I was tracking its inflection point in usage (holy shit, look how it's growing! Then, holy shit, has it stopped ?!), then its inflection in business model (hey, it doesn't have one ! It is. But therein lies the rub. MORE >>

37signals is the team behind popular collaboration apps Basecamp, Highrise, Backpack and Campfire. Last month, Fried spoke at TEDxMidwest in Chicago, exploring some of the themes of REWORK in an intriguing fifteen minute talk: Fried talks about the how absurd it that many people are most productive in trains, cafes, dens, but not in the office. MORE >>

I caught up for a beer with old friend Tom Stewart , currently Chief Marketing and Knowledge Officer at Booz & Co, when he was in Sydney recently. We chatted about interesting topics such as business cycles, talent, and where media is going. The core theme of Tom’s article is that the “value of talent is highly dependent on context”. MORE >>