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Government and non-profit sector conferences coming up in May and June

by on 30 April 2009.

I have a couple of conferences that I’m attending coming up in May and June that may be of interest, both with a strong community, non-profit and government flavour: Connecting Up 2009 – 11th-12th May The first is the Connecting Up 2009 conference, on the 11th-12 May where I’ll be talking about how non-profit (and… read full post

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Why is social computing more cost effective?

by on 22 April 2009.

In part of this interview with Stowe Boyd, Headshift’s Lee Bryant talks about the impact of the current global financial crisis on IT spending. He comments on the paradox that organisations are still sinking large amounts of money into old-style communication and knowledge management tools that don’t really work, yet will question spending much smaller… read full post

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Get enterprise wiki software for just a few bucks

by on 21 April 2009.

Between now and the 24th April, enterprise wiki software company, Atlassian, is offering a fully functional 5 user license to Confluence for just US$5 (that’s about AU$7) as part their ‘Atlassian $timulus Package‘. This includes a full year of support and maintenance, and renewable for only US$5. We wouldn’t normally just recommend buying a piece… read full post

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We can’t live without it, so lets rethink television advertising

by on 15 April 2009.

With the count down to switching off analogue television in Australia officially started, the digital bandwagon is gathering renewed momentum with a swath of advertising from both the federal government and Freeview, a consortium of existing free to air broadcasters. Watching from the sidelines it looks like the combined federal government and Freeview campaigns only… read full post

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A Postcard from BarCamp Canberra

by on 2 April 2009.

Last weekend I had the great pleasure of participating in BarCamp Canberra, with a personal objective of networking with other like minded people interested in Government 2.0. Canberra is of course the centre of federal government in Australia, so I had expected a strong Government 2.0 friendly contingent and wasn’t disappointed. Of course, numbers are… read full post

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