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Coming Soon to a Screen Near You

Walter — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 05:19:00 +0000

AI Image by Nano Banana Screens, screens and more screens. With smartphones, tablets, laptops, and of course the good old TV (or Apple TV for the gadget geeks) and cinema, everybody is staring at an electronic device. Lifestyles have certainly changed in the hyper-connected new social era, enabled by digital gadgets that are perpetually connected […]

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The Danger of Digital Addiction

Walter — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 02:22:00 +0000

Are you addicted to your smartphone and social media accounts? This sobering talk by Sherry Turkle should teach you a thing or two.

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Be a Participatory Citizen at GovCamp

Walter — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 22:53:00 +0000

Want to play a part in shaping how government can better serve you through social technologies? Got a burning desire to change the delivery of essential services? Why not participate in the first ever Singapore GovCamp? Taking place on 19th Jan (Wed) on NUS Campus, Singapore GovCamp hopes to “connect the Government with the general […]

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Celebrating National Day via Social Technologies

Walter — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 02:12:00 +0000

Courtesy of NDPeeps (on flickr) As we celebrate our 45th year of independence across the island in many different ways, I thought it’d be interesting to see how this is being done in the digital dimension. Gauging from the amount of national day related posts, Facebook updates, tagged photographs, videos and other User Generated Content […]

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The Real-time Relationship Revolution

Walter — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:58:00 +0000

Real-time customers are the in-thing these days. You cannot just hope to respond to a customer two days later and hope that things are fine...

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Clay Shirky on The Future of Organisations

Walter — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:05:00 +0000

Broad and sweeping, yet detailed and penetrating, Clay Shirky’s volume “Here Come’s Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations” is a tour de force of how technology influences group activity and organisation. Shirky skillfully blended social sciences like psychology, sociology and anthropology with elements of the social web – mailing lists, forums, blogs, Youtube, Flickr, […]

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