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October 6, 2008 Posted in Business, Collaboration, New Zealand, SocialMedia, Strategy 1 Comment

A Journey of A Thousand Miles

By Ben Kepes

Subsequent to TelecomONE over the weekend, and after a session discussing the social media activities of Telecom employees – some issues became evident. I’ve always been impressed that Vodafone New Zealand allow (and, I assume, encourage) Paul Brislen, their PR man, to participate in social media – be it on

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October 4, 2008 Posted in Business, Efficiency, Governance, Strategy 5 Comments

Of Big Chief and Big Cheese, An Allegory on Agility

By Ben Kepes

Below is the story I told as an introduction to the session I helped facilitate at TelecomONE… see if you can dot-the-dots and pick out the question in the story… Once upon a time, in a land far away, lived a little girl. Now the little girl had a name,

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October 4, 2008 Posted in Business, Design, IT, New business, New Zealand, Strategy 4 Comments

Growing Communities That Heart You

By Ben Kepes

Energiser Bunny in-residence Tim Norton (he of the multi-facets) and Steve Adams from Made From New Zealand facilitated a session looking at building true online communities of love. From humble beginnings…. Tim Talked about the Silicon Welly experiment – they created a brand around the name, and then enabled other

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October 4, 2008 Posted in Business, IT, New Zealand, Strategy Leave a comment

Shiny Happy Gadgets

By Ben Kepes

Resident coffee Geek Brenda waxes poetic about shiny open source mobile devices – the list of things talked about is long and arduous; Android OpenMoko Trolltech Rockbox ALP Open Pandora GPX2 SymbianOS Arduino Zigbee OLPC Some really interesting thoughts around building non-production testing sites so caffeine-fueled hackers can play around

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October 3, 2008 Posted in Efficiency, IT, New Zealand, Strategy Leave a comment

TelecomONE – Day One

By Ben Kepes

Sitting here in the Mahurangi College at the end of day one of TelecomONE, the unconference which seeks to be; a vehicle for helping to drive Innovation into Telecom, to harness what works for people, to share what people have found is going on in the world and discuss what

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Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.