Hi y’all. (sorry, thought that might sound fairly relaxed after the break!). First Rostrum Speaking Club meeting of the year is next Wednesday (4th February 2009) at the Indooroopilly Library meeting rooms. Jutta and I thought we would start the year with a fairly relaxed and simple, yet fun, activity of a Pizza Impromptu Speaking …
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My research at the University of Queensland is examining the theory of technology dominance, as set out in Arnold & Sutton (1998). This theory sets out to explain three things: Factors that determine the likelihood that a decision maker will choose to rely on an available decision aid Conditions under which a decision maker using …
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This tag is from my son’s new school shirt, purchased this week. I find it ironic that this school shirt has a label that has at least three elementary grammatical and spelling errors in it. As previously established, it’s a private (& somewhat expensive!) school. I know it’s not the school’s fault – they don’t …
Just a note I’ve prepared based upon my PhD project. You’ll either get it or you won’t. AIFRS Changes At the core, AIFRS is made up of two factors: Auditing Standard changes (ASA’s) and Australian Accounting Standard changes (AASB’s). Therefore, there are two components impacting upon IT audit methodology: More information to be recorded by …
Today I received feedback from the presentation I gave back in October 2008 (!) on the presentation ‘Facebook, MySpace, YouTube & Flickr – managing and leveraging the business impact of social networking sites’. Again going for that whole transparency thing. Feedback was very good – technical content rating was a 4 (Very Good) and presentation …
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