David Warwick (CM Pros Australia co-chair)
June 30, 2006
David Warwick is director of Komodo CMS, a Melbourne based Web content management vendor.David explains his role as co-chair, and a little bit about the history of CM Pros Australia in this interview (7 minutes, 6MB): http://users.tpg.com.au/wcrosbie/audio/David_Warwick.mp3
Peter Christo (Podmatcher.com)
June 20, 2006
Peter Christo interview part 1 (9 minutes, 9 MB): hypertext.rmit.edu.au/~crosbie/Peter_Christo_1of2.mp3
Peter Christo interview part 2 (9 minutes, 9 MB): hypertext.rmit.edu.au/~crosbie/Peter_Christo_2of2.mp3
Peter Christo is a business consultant, internet entrepreneur and commercialisation consultant based in Melbourne Australia. After completing his university studies, he worked with Hewlett-Packard and then spent the next 12 years primarily in Internet based ventures, which included a range of web projects in San Francisco USA in the late 90’s and the Cyberpreneures of Melbourne between 1998 and 2001. Peter spoke on the topic of Internet Business in the 1996 Australian APEC Forum, and has been quoted in a number of eminent publications. Peter recently completed the Master of Entrepreneurship & Innovation (MIE) at Swinburne University of Technology (SUT), and undertakes sessional lecturing work on entrepreneurship. Peter is currently developing a web based business and social networking venture called Podmatcher.com You can find out more about Peter via x2o.com.au, or his blog at blog.x2o.com.au
About Podmatcher.com
Podmatcher.com is a web-based service that makes communities of practice, (CoPs or what we call Pods) knowledge or business networks, and clusters or consortia, visible to stakeholders. (From podmatcher.x2o.com.au June 8, 2006)
David Gurr (Univerisity of Melbourne)
June 6, 2006
Interview with David Gurr (8 minutes, 8 MB): http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/~crosbie/David_Gurr.mp3
David Gurr is a lecturer at the Faculty of Education, Centre for Organizational Learning and Leadership, at the University of Melbourne, and also Vice-President (Publications and Research), Australian Council for Educational Leaders. For more on David see his staff profile at: edfac.unimelb.edu.au/lol/coll/staff/gurr.html
References
Avolio, B. J., & Dodge, G. E. (2000). E-leadership: Implications for theory, research, and practice. Leadership Quarterly, 11.
Gurr, D. (2006). E-leadership. In S. Dasgupta (Ed.), Encyclopedia of virtual communities and technologies (pp. 161-165). Hershey, PA: Idea Group Reference.
Chris Prince (Wave & Avalon)
June 5, 2006
Audio interview (3 minutes, 1.3 MB): hypertext.rmit.edu.au/~crosbie/Chris_Prince.mp3
Chris Prince is Founder and CEO at Wave Business; Co-Founder and CEO at Avalon Software.
Luke Hoban & Melanie Kendell (emorphus)
May 28, 2006
Listen to Melanie and Luke via http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/~crosbie/Melanie_and_Luke.mp3 (3 minutes, 3MB).
Melanie is an experience technical writer, communicator, and trainer.
Luke is a straight talker. He says he's interested in content creation, as opposed to content management.
Luke has qualifications in IT and Marketing and studied for his MBA at Monash University. Melanie and Luke are a founding member of the emorphus consultancy (emorphus.com.au)
Melanie and Luke are CM Pros Australia participants, based in Melbourne.
Con Zymaris (Cybersource & OSV)
May 28, 2006
Con Zymaris is from Cybersource, in Melbourne (cybersource.com.au). Con is a skilled communicator with an intesting take on the role of audio for busy people who use the Internet and regularly enjoy listining to audio:
I’ve found audio to be a very rich medium for idea expression and dissemination, moreso than video and more accessible than text, particularly for busy people.
In his interview, Con talks about ‘benign dictators’ and their role in the community process of leading volunteers who develop open source software. The interview is 16 minutes long (13 MB): http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/~crosbie/Con_Zymaris.mp3
He also speaks of ‘interleaved discussions’ and the inportant role played by Donna Benjamin in helping to facilitate breakfast meetings, co-located via the Internet.
To see a picture of Con Zymaris, in downtown Melbourne, go to http://www.cybersource.com.au/users/conz/photos/p1010018.jpg [900 KB]
Howard Sachs (iFocus)
May 28, 2006
Howard Sachs is an information architect and senior consultant at iFocus, an e-Business solutions company, headquartered in Melbourne.
In this interview Howard discusses information architecture, business portals, and his interest in content management (12 minutes, 5.7 MB): hypertext.rmit.edu.au/~crosbie/Howard_Sachs.mp3
Howard presents at conferences on, for example, the business case for portal implementation and the key steps and considerations for a successful portal implementation. Howard's online writings include: Only fools rush in: five steps for success in government portal projects
Deborah Weiss (Gartner, Melbourne)
May 28, 2006
Deborah Weiss is Research Director, Enterprise Architecture, at Gartner in Melboure.
Deborah presented, for example, at the 2005 Gartner ITxpo. Deborah's bio says she "specializes in Enterprise Architecture, Business and IT Alignment and Strategic Planning."
Deborah's interview suggests many communities of highly technical IT experts use a miss-mash of online tools, and that their online environments are more average than you might expect.
[Interview coming soon.]
