civil society
Source: The Crisis, 23 December 1776, Thomas Paine As the wave of people's uprisings sweep across North Africa and the Middle East it is fascinating to watch from afar in Australia. We are safely ensconced in our comfortable homes distant from the terrible decisions that people are making
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A few days ago I noticed the following tweet and clicked on the accompanying link. The image was at the other end of the link: Image source: Bronwen Clune - used with permission This tweet and the picture made me laugh. It caught a bunch of women having a moment
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As noted on icanhascheezburger: "Alwaiz Gud 2 Get Ober Ur Grumpiez"
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Just spent another evening with a great bunch of women learning about JavaScript as part of the Oz Girl Develop IT program for 2011. Discussing the plans for this year's Oz Develop IT with Pamela Fox and Cathy Lill tonight it became clear that there's an
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There is a lot of talk about revolution happening now in online communities given the unfolding events in Tunisia and Egypt. This has got me thinking about the nature of revolutions. There's a rather nice list of revolutions and rebellions on Wikipedia for those who are not up
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A friend invited me along to his citizenship ceremony the other day. He's terribly excited about becoming an Aussie after living here for a number of years. We went to the newly refurbished Sydney Town Hall and the Lord Mayor, wearing her Lord Mayoral bling, gave a lovely
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social computing & social media
Join us for the next Social Innovation BarCamp in Sydney. It’s free registration so sign up now and participate in a day of ideas, conversation and creative thinking. Again we’ll be crowdsourcing ideas for creating new business models for social good and building up our community network of
gender & sexism
The fight for women to get the vote was a monument to cooperation, ingenuity and collaboration on the part of many women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These women educated themselves and their peers about women's issues and agitated for women's rights. And
social computing & social media
Most organisations are grappling with the digital revolution and its democratization of communication. The US Army is no different. However, they have met the organisational challenges of social media head on and have become an acknowledged leader in practice. They along with other parts of the US military - such
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It has long annoyed me that we often wait until people are dead before telling them how we feel about them. Instead we wait until their funeral to talk about what it is that makes them special to us. As a person who has lost many family members this seems