When I was in San Francisco and Silicon Valley last year, one of the highlights of my trip was meeting the extraordinarily talented Jenn Vargas. Jenn is the founder of 101in365 and after graduating from Cornell University in 2009 has worked at two of the hottest web 2.0 companies going – Flickr and Etsy as a product […]
Melbourne Silicon Beach Drinks
A couple of us here have decided to revitalise the Melbourne Silicon Beach chapter in 2011. For those who aren’t familiar, Silicon Beach is a community of Australians passionate about the tech and web industries. They are often entrepreneurs – working on startups, and the events are attended by business people and developers alike. We’re […]
The future of publishing in the digital age
I though it might be of interest to crosspost an event review of a panel I was on about the future of publishing in the digital age. The panel formed part of the November meeting of the Society of Editors (Victoria) and the review was written by the talented Ben Hourigan. You can find out […]
Social recruitment practices
I was recently quoted in the print and online versions of The Age and SMH on social media and recruitment. The article sprouted much conversation after its release – including a healthy debate on my Facebook status after I shared the link. I’ve included an excerpt of the article below – would love to hear […]
Which are you?
This is an oldie but goodie that’s from the viral rounds in early 2010. It’s the pinnacle of Venn diagram goodness: a demonstration of the difference between nerds, geeks, dorks and dweebs!
Goodbye to nuclear
Full infographic here: http://awesome.good.is/transparency/web/1101/marriage/flat.html
One-week silent Twitter retreat
A couple of months ago, I took a virtual vow of silence on Twitter. You can see the gap from the 4th until the 11th of November on my account here. It wasn’t a dare, bet or other shenanigan from anyone else – I simply wanted to experiment and see what happened. I’m calling it […]
This is smart
LinkedIn recently sent me this smart piece of email marketing. A few people I chatted to in the last week also mentioned it so I thought I’d scrapbook it here. Simplicity: tick. People: tick. Curiosity: tick. Consumable: tick. Timely: tick. Clickable: tick.
More inspiration
Thanks wordboner.com.
The lone Singapore dollar
I have a wee tale to tell. I had a Singapore dollar. It was in my purse. I can’t recall how it got there [although I have visited Singapore many times]. I can’t recall when it got there. All I can recall is it was there. Until this evening in fact, when I finally donated […]
Leave your baggage
Update on the journey
Dear compassionate and caring individuals who give a crap what I’m up to, You might have been confused about where I’ve been and what I’ve been doing. Well, after eight weeks in the US and two back in Melbourne – I thought it was time to post an update. The post to read for background info […]
Kate Kendall 