Steve Prentice

I just love the Australians – they are direct and challenging, which always makes for a stimulating conversation. Yesterday, during a day of client meetings I was discussing social collaboration, innovation and the relationships between technology and society with a CIO and his team. He is a seasoned veteran who has seen it all and [...]

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As a photographer one of the things you learn early on is to think about the “negative space” – the background, the stuff that is not the focus of attention. The human brain has an amazing ability to filter out the negative space whilst concentrating on the main subject – until you see the final [...]

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Presenting Gartner’s Top 10 Predictions for 2009 to an Australian audience brought both a predictable comment and a reassurance that we are all in the current mess together. First off there was the comment, “well these are global high level trends – how about something specific to the local market?”. But the headlines in the [...]

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I speak with a lot of clients regarding the use of virtual worlds within the enterprise for a wide variety of purposes and the most frequent question is “Which is the leading platform?”. Well the answer to that depends! Are we talking number of active users, number of signups (not the same thing!), virtual space [...]

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So (according to various news reports) Stephen Fry now has more than 63,000 followers on Twitter. Well bully for him! Here we have one of the great theatrical and comic talents of our time, who is finding a use for Twitter as a means of reaching out to his audience, or maybe he is simply [...]

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In a previous posting I have already mentioned my belief that 2009 will be the year of 3D (everything) in the technology space. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, 3D televisions were everywhere – maybe the manufacturers are hoping that we will be rushing out to replace last year’s 42 inch plasma display [...]

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Timing as they say, is everything. After my rather negative observations on Twitter less than 48 hours ago, the micro-blogging service appears to have redeemed itself and captured the headlines around the world. Janis Krums was on a ferry on the Hudson river when the US Airways flight landed and took what will probably become [...]

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It has been an interesting day. In fact, as my colleague Nick Jones commented in his blog, it has been an interesting week, and it is unlikely to get any less interesting as we move through the year. Let’s face it, we are still only half way through January!
Nick is right, scanning the news sites [...]

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More information than you need to know is probably your (perfectly reasonable) response to this title. My apologies for taking such a lavatorial approach to grab your attention. However, it is only a matter of time before that message pops up on Twitter. I have been on Twitter for some time now, as are many [...]

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As the credit crunch starts to bite and companies start to tighten up on travel we are all going to have to explore new ways to collaborate. The trouble is, it is just too darn simple these days.  The “enterprise” solution is to install a collaboration software solution (probably at substantial license cost), allocate storage [...]

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