A few months back, the Inspire Foundation ran a campaign they called Man Week. Designed to call attention to the terrible loss occurring amongst young men dealing with depression and suicide (according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the current suicide rate for men in Australia is more than three times the rate of women) […]
links for 2009-10-21
The Three Laws of Open Data | Government 2.0 Taskforce Nice work from David Eaves — exist, engage, empower (tags: australia opendata government2.0)
links for 2009-10-20
Craig Newmark: A Nerd’s Take On The Future Of News Media Great take on trust and quality editing of news from Craig Newmark. (tags: journalism socialmedia media)
YourHealth — clever consultation, minor issues
Over at YourHealth, the Department of Health and Ageing’s community consultation site on Australian health reform, they’ve taken an extra step in the opening up of the public consultation model — they’re now encouraging submissions by video. On top of the pretty open consultation model they’re already using; stories, regular written submissions, polling and the like, the […]
links for 2009-10-16
Brainstorm » Blog Archive » Google Sidewiki: You can’t ignore your customers anymore! Good piece from Jonathon Crossfield on the power in the hands of users with Google Sidewiki. He’s absolutely right. (tags: google conversation socialmedia) 8 ways to optimize your feedly experience « Building Feedly Useful. (tags: feedly howto)
links for 2009-10-13
YouTube: We’re Bigger Than You Thought — Bits Blog — NYTimes.com Somewhere between 600M and 1B views a day! Now, if they can get people to click on the ads, there will be a revenue stream. (tags: video socialmedia business)
links for 2009-10-12
Journos on thin ice as they take their messages and moans online | The Australian The media orgs continue to run scared of social media. The AFR policy referred in this story will, I imagine, prove completely unworkable. (tags: media business socialmedia)
links for 2009-10-10
» Features » Some thinking on Education, from New South Wales Nice thinking from Darcy More in NSW on education reform for the 21st Century. (tags: education innovation)
links for 2009-10-06
The Seven Laws of Projects, and How to Break Them : The World : Idea Hub :: American Express OPEN Forum More projects like this, please! (tags: management business)
acidlabs in Research News
I was interviewed for a piece in this month’s Research News from the Australian Market & Social Research Society entitled A research dilemma: Confidentiality breaches. The piece explores the management of customer relationships when your information has been criticized and exposed online. In it, I express some views about how organisations ought to approach this […]
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