Archive for December, 2009

A bit of a stuff up!

Its been pointed out to me (thanks to Tim) that my previous post on this blog ‘Is anybody listening’ has rather a huge blooper in it as I managed to misinterpret the Herald email stats. I thought this was emails received by the Herald about stories when it is actually the number of people who … Continue reading 

Is anybody listening?

I was interested to read the Sydney Morning Herald’s website stats for 2009 this week. The SMH (which is the broadsheet newspaper for New South Wales, for those of you elsewhere) allows comments on selected articles and had the following most commented on articles in 2009: Most commented on story: Roads are for cars, not … Continue reading 

Telstra Social Media Guidelines for staff

I picked this up from Mashable thanks to a tweet from @shimmmergirl (thanks Kylie!). Telstra has published its social media guidelines for staff online. The guidelines comprise a comic strip and a video which I have embedded below. Great commonsense guidelines but even more important is the decision to publish these which shows that Telstra … Continue reading 

Site Upgrade

We have just rolled out a site upgrade across the Bang the Table platform. As well as fixing some annoying glitches and gremlins the upgrade has made a number of minor enhancements to the platform based on user feedback and requests. Changes that will affect clients and users are: 1. Blog/News post images Our blog … Continue reading 

New Consultation… Brownlie Neighbourhood Masterplan (Perth)

The Department of Housing, in Partnership with the City of Canning, is in the process of creating a masterplan for the Brownlie neighbourhood in Bentley. The masterplan will help shape the redevelopment of the precinct over the coming years. The concept plans for public discussion have been the result of several months of engagement with … Continue reading 

New Book… Online Deliberation

This came in today via the ever reliable Tiago Peixoto’s Participatory Budgeting Facebook Group. One of the editors, Todd Davies, introduces the collection of papers thus: The present decade has seen a blossoming of software tools, research projects, and everyday practice that can loosely be characterized under the heading of ‘online deliberation’. A community has … Continue reading 

Google Wave

An interesting video description of how Pulp fiction would look on Google Wave. Thanks to Chris Brogan who pointed this out on his blog and to @hollingsworth who pointed this out on Twitter. Just a brief warning about the language in case you are at work or have kids in the room.

A case for social networking in schools

At NSW Sphere earlier this year there was a lot of talk in the tea break about the need to give access to social networks in schools. If children are to be able to fully participate in Government’s efforts to use social networks and other sites to allow the community to engage more in it’s … Continue reading