Web Standards Group August meeting (Sydney)

By Diana Mounter : August 7, 2008 | In Events & meetups, Social computing | Comments Off

If you are in Sydney around 19th August make sure you go to the Web Standards Group meeting on Tuesday night. There’s a great list of presenters including Tim Lucas who is also presenting at our conference at the end of that week. WSG provides a great way to meet other web professionals, there’s forums and mailing lists that you can join so even if you can’t make the meetups you can participate in discussion. Continue reading Web Standards Group August meeting (Sydney)…

Twittering for Local Government

By Diana Mounter : June 17, 2008 | In Social computing, Tools & applications | No Comments

A few weeks ago I stumbled across a Twitter channel for the British Prime Minister called Downing Street after the famous residence, number 10 Downing Street. The PMs media people are using it to provide instant updates to the press and anyone else who’s interested. This got me thinking about how Twitter could be used in Local Government. Continue reading Twittering for Local Government…

Social computing for knowledge management

By Diana Mounter : May 21, 2008 | In Events & meetups, Social computing | 1 Comment

As I had hoped my head was buzzing with ideas after Web Directions Government, some great speakers from Australia and around the world presented. We’ll do a post soon when all their presentations are available, but there’s one I wanted to talk about now due to its relevance to a project I’m currently working on. Continue reading Social computing for knowledge management…

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