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Online relationships – far from isolating

November 10, 2009

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My friend (in both the online and physical worlds), Kate Carruthers asks an interesting question in her post Are social networks breeding social isolation? Kate concludes that for her and her circle of friends who she associates with online and physically, this isn’t the case, but has other friends who are concerned. They need not [...]

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YourHealth – clever consultation, minor issues

October 20, 2009

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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, [...]

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Culture in the New Order

September 3, 2009

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NOTE: The article below is my contribution to the Centre for Policy Development’s Insight: Upgrading Democracy, which consists of several pieces from well-known thinkers and doers in the Government 2.0 sector and was CPD’s submission to the Government 2.0 Taskforce. It is republished here because I like to keep everything in one place.
‘There is nothing [...]

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Drawing the line on social media – a view from the real world

August 31, 2009

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My views on social media – its power to connect and bring people closer, to empower participation, to give voice – are well known. Equally well known are my views on using social media as a marketing tool and that I consider many marketing efforts using social media to be shortsighted at best, rarely considering [...]

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Australia and Government 2.0 – not quite right

August 11, 2009

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I am passionately interested in greater engagement between government at all levels and the public. So much so, that I’ve volunteered my time on several projects that seek to enable the transition to a more open, engaged, conversational form of government – the type of government being termed Government 2.0.
I’ve been stewing over this post [...]

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Keeping tabs

April 27, 2009

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Not the way I would have put it, and not much to show for a 30 minute phone interview that dug quite deep, but The Australian’s Lara Sinclair has done a decent look at brand monitoring being done by Australian companies online.

I get a couple of nice quotes:
The burgeoning ranks of social media specialists in [...]

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Connect.ed – The story of a girl

December 5, 2008

in speaking

My closing keynote from eLearning08, the primary event on the NSW Australian Flexible Learning Framework calendar.
Connect.ed – The story of a girl
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: participation learning)

I want today to tell you a story. Like many stories, our hero is a young girl. She will face challenges and adversity. But she [...]

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BarCamp Sydney #4 – Saturday, 15 November 2008

November 2, 2008

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The (un)organisers of BarCamp Sydney have let me know that they are preparing for yet another festival of creativity to engage and excite the Australian tech and innovation community. Details below.
Date: 15 November 2008
Venue: UNSW Roundhouse
Time: 9:00AM-5:00PMpm (registration starts at 8:30AM)
Register: Do it yourself on the wiki
If you’ve never been to a BarCamp before, I [...]

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What will the future of media look like?

July 16, 2008

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If you attended Ross Dawson’s Future of Media Summit in Sydney or Silicon Valley yesterday, there are a few core take-aways you might have been left with:

the artificial split/war between journalism and new media prevails
everyone – PR, journalism, advertising and broadcasting – is trying to figure out this social networking and social media stuff (and [...]

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Standing for Social Media Club board

July 15, 2008

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With 37 others, I am standing for the final slot on the Social Media Club Board.
SMC, is a great organisation, that has the support and involvement of the best people in social media and has the stated aim of:

…sharing best practices, establishing ethics and standards, and promoting media literacy around the emerging area of Social [...]

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