Girl Develop IT Sydney launches successfully #ozgdi
Kate Carruthers Girl Develop IT Sydney kicked off well last night with thirty eight students, led by the indomitable Pamela Fox and a number of teaching assistants. Women from all sorts of…
Blog action day 2010 – theme is water
Today is Blog Action Day 2010 and the theme is water. Many people are without access to this most basic of human needs. In Australia we need to find ways…
Getting it Wrong? The Y2K bug revisited via @RNFutureTense
It was fascinating to take the time and think back to the days of the Y2K bug and discuss what happened (and some of the crazy hype that went on)…
Interested in sustainable design? Check out #sibsyd
The next Social Innovation BarCamp is on and the theme is sustainable design! Click here to REGISTER NOWWhen: Saturday 6 November 2010 Time: 9.30 am – 5.30 pmWhere: COFA Paddington,…
Presenting with power means PowerPoint must not be a crutch
We are currently planning the next Social Innovation BarCamp for 6 Nov 2010 in Sydney and I’ve just written a post about it called 4 Principles and 2 Laws of…
Inspiring: Girl Develop IT #becauseiamagirl
One thing I’m passionate about is the possibilities opened up for all of us by technology. And techincal literacy is an important way that we can open up those possibilities…
Public discourse and private citizens – how free is freedom of speech? #groggate
A recent disclosure that a Federal public servant has been blogging about matters political in his personal time has come to be referred amongst Australian journalists and bloggers alike as…
Twitter, commonsense and journalism #groggate
I’ve been observing the discourse in the mainstream and social media worlds about the ‘outing’ of the blogger Grog’s Gamut – the so-called #groggate. Craig Thomler has made an excellent…