Gregology http://gregology.net The world according to Greg Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:38:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Facehoo! http://gregology.net/2012/04/facehoo/ http://gregology.net/2012/04/facehoo/#comments Sat, 28 Apr 2012 01:42:14 +0000 Greg http://gregology.net/?p=1140 Continue reading →]]> Facebook and Yahoo are working together to liberate your personal information. Be careful before reading “10 Signs Your Relationship is Over” if you’re still in a relationship and it might be a good idea to log out of Facebook before visiting your favourite sites ;)

]]> http://gregology.net/2012/04/facehoo/feed/ 0 Trampoline Day Sydney http://gregology.net/2012/04/trampoline-day-sydney/ http://gregology.net/2012/04/trampoline-day-sydney/#comments Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:49:15 +0000 Greg http://gregology.net/?p=1127 Continue reading →]]> Trampoline Day is a self organised event and today was the first time the event had been held in Sydney. It is a two way dialogue where anyone who wishes gets an opportunity to run a talk. Mine was on Open Source and I’ll upload the YouTube video shortly. Here are my notes from today.


Mornings talks

Knowledge management with Aprill @aprillarm
50% of execs are at retirement age
Knowledge management is a process
Everyone can write, but don’t use two words when one will do. Simple plan language.
Don’t need a fancy tool or template, it just needs to be organized.
5 x W and a H.

Peerfunding with Tom from StartSomeGood @tomjd
Tax benifits do not matter for crowd funding
Emotional not tax benifits as reason for donations
Crowd funding is peerfunding, a community not anonymous people
Kick starter is not a crowd of people who like giving away money. Funds go to community products. Start with friends and your community.
Know the names of your first 5 supporters
You never see an empty tip jar
Investment, have something you want, want to give, want you to succeed
Kick starter is not a community, it is a tool.
Ask for help.

Community creativity and social change with Michelle @mia_will
Creating business that have a social environmental impact
The way we interact with information is changing
Social enterprise


Afternoon talks

3D printing with Adam

http://www.thebeehive.net.au

Growing from entrepreneur to big business with Peter
Identify what you can’t do when you have the ability to get more people in an organization.
Fear of unknown not change, inform the people of the changes
Asone app
Keep some things similar to help people deal with change
Dunbars number

Inter-generational with John
Bono with 35 million emails
Threats to non profits from social movements

Sign language – Jen
Talk with mouth full
200 active sign languages plus more dialects
Long history of signing, ancient greek references
Deaf culture, sign names (has to be made by deaf person), has very strong eye contact, tell like it is
3d grammer, theater in front of you, using space as idea similar to variables
Sign bank online

Design with Jess
Products made from land fill
www.xstransformed.com

  

]]> http://gregology.net/2012/04/trampoline-day-sydney/feed/ 0 Digital breakup http://gregology.net/2012/04/digital-breakup/ http://gregology.net/2012/04/digital-breakup/#comments Sat, 07 Apr 2012 11:13:43 +0000 Greg http://gregology.net/?p=1117 Continue reading →]]> My girl friend and I recently broke up. In the last few days I’ve been organising moving out, finding a new place, redirecting mail, terminating joint bank accounts etc. But the tech era has introduced a new dimension to breaking up. Dee and I lived together and shared our online selves. Tools like google latitude meant we always knew where each other were, with shared calendars we knew where each other were going to be, and with facebook, twitter, gmail chat, etc we were always up to date with what each other were doing. Since the breakup I have been constantly reminded of Dee’s existence. Facebook prominently displays Dee’s face when I log in and gmail suggesting I include her in emails to my friends and family. So since the breakup I have been trying to distance myself from digital Dee. I have stop sharing my calendar, removed Dee from latitude, de friended her on Facebook, stopped following her on Twitter, hidden her in gmail chat, and even ended our draw something game (which was up to 99 games!). It’s not that I want to deny Dee and I were every together or that I never want to be friends with Dee again, it’s just a little fresh and the Internet is a bloody insensitive idiot when it comes to break ups :|

]]> http://gregology.net/2012/04/digital-breakup/feed/ 0 Sail fail http://gregology.net/2012/01/sail-fail/ http://gregology.net/2012/01/sail-fail/#comments Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:22:09 +0000 Greg http://gregology.net/?p=1098 Continue reading →]]> We’re at the Basin which is about 2km north of our starting location. It’s a lovely place but I think the Australian land mass us moving north faster then us. The winds weren’t favourable and the East Australian Current (the underwater highway in Finding Nemo) wanted to go south. After a trip to the 360 degree liquid horizon we had only traveled only 5 were north and the crew were mostly green. With this in mind the decision was made to cut our losses and wait for the winds to agree with our travel plans.

It definitely could be worse :)

]]> http://gregology.net/2012/01/sail-fail/feed/ 0 Sails set for Brisbane http://gregology.net/2012/01/sails-set-for-brisbane/ http://gregology.net/2012/01/sails-set-for-brisbane/#comments Sun, 01 Jan 2012 23:34:34 +0000 Greg http://gregology.net/?p=1096 Continue reading →]]> The Laura Court has set sails for the trip to Brisbane. Alan (skipper), Gaten, John, helan, and myself onboard. First scheduled stop is Port Stephens which with current winds should be in our sights by early tomorrow morning.

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