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The question is can you get it at an Aus local level?
Cheers, Stuart
I recall there was mention of a good set of internal blogging guidelines during the workshop but can't seem to find any details of it in my scrawlings. Can anyone help?
Thanks!
Diana
By Darren Osborne December 18, 2007 04:13pm
Trillions of texts worldwide, billions in Australian alone
Social networking and bundled plans have helped increase SMS use.
AUSTRALIANS are set to send more than 10 billion text messages in 2008, as mobile phones become the preferred form of communication.
Telecommunications analyst Gartner has forecast that the number of mobile phone messages worldwide in 2008 will pass 2.3 trillion messages, a 19.6-per-cent increase from the 2007 total of 1.9 trillion messages.
Within Australia, Gartner predicts 10.8 billion mobile messages will be sent in 2008, and top 11.2 billion in 2011.
Gartner research director, Tole Hart, believes the increase in mobile messages is being driven by social networking and the number of carriers offering bundled pricing plans.
"The market is being driven by increased penetration of users, more frequent usage of peer-to-peer messaging, and unlimited and bucketed messaging plans," he said.
Hart said that despite the availability of email service via mobile phones, many users were sticking with text messaging.
"There has also been some uptake of mobile e-mail via POP3 mailboxes and mobile IM service, but it's very small compared with the uptake of SMS."
Revenue from messaging is expected to grow 15.7 per cent in 2008 to $US60.2 billion ($70.45 billion), up from $US52 billion ($60.85 billion) in 2007.
Source: www.news.com.au
I went to the Sydney workshop but like Dianah cannot work out how to add in my details except by sending this comment. (will keep playing)
I am giving my work email as my GM has said gave the ok to access a range of social media tools in work time... thanks for the workshop Lee!!!!
Details:
Martin Ryman
martin.ryman@randwick.nsw.gov.au
Cheers,
Martin
Posted on Boingboing by David Pescovitz, October 25, 2007 11:38 AM
My friend Jens-Martin Skibsted, co-founder of the amazing Biomega bicycle company, and economist Nicolai Peitersen have launched Actics.com, a site that TreeHugger has dubbed the "ethical facebook." Basically, it allows companies who act right to show off their ethical values and those who might need their services to find them more easily. You can browse members by their values, such as environmentalism, integrity, openness, tolerance, transparency, and confidentiality. Jens-Martin first talked to me about this project two years ago and I'm thrilled that he and Nicolai have brought it to fruition. Here's what TreeHugger had to say about Actics.com:
How does is work? Like with any other social network, you register and define who you are for your profile. Since this one is all about actions and ethics, you get to choose your corporate or personal values and state how you act them out. It is then up to your friends, clients or investors to rate you out of 100 for how true you are to your values. To help you out, they can also send you suggestions and endorse you. A great feature of this software is that a plugin, showing your ethical performance, can be integrated into your website or your company’s intranet if you want to share your results with a bigger network.
Link: http://www.actics.com/
this one won't let me add my contact details so here they are...
diwarren at netspeed dot com dot au (home) work will ahrdly let anything through so this is probably best.
I can't even get access to most external news vids let alone stream porn. The best way is to let google show you the thumbs from naughty sites if you feel that way (or duck out with your fully optioned video iPod) or use the google translator to let you search for that sort of restricted stuff.
But seriously:
I think there should be a little more access to things and a little more monitoring so that legitimate work and research can be done. One rule does not fit all (I need an extra large...gap in my firewall).
I am going to get a fellow colleague to start blogging (he is a Para-Olympian who is also a public speaker). Once he has got the hang, I will insist that we need to support him by allowing access to the blog for our fire wall protected buddies. Feedback is great, I sell ideas on how we can use it (which I already have worked out), then I attack a good manager with something important to say...
Rotate the pod please HAL!
Article from: AAP
By Trevor Chappell
October 16, 2007 05:41pm
CONSUMERS who get their news from the internet are likely to trust a blog for reliability as much as a mainstream media site, the competition watchdog said today.
Graeme Samuel, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) chairman, said a recent report by search engine Technorati showed the number of non-mainstream blogs in the 100 most popular information websites was rising.
"What is even more worrying for traditional media organisations is that some of their assumptions about users trusting known brands are starting to look a little shaky," Mr Samuel told a Walkley business lunch in Sydney today.
"User-testing in early 2007 indicated to those carrying out Technorati's survey that audiences are less and less likely to distinguish a blog from, say, nytimes.com or other mainstream media sites," he said.
"For a growing base of users, these are all equally valid sources of news, information, entertainment and gossip, and users are not necessarily discriminating between traditional and new sources."
Mr Samuel said although "old" media companies still dominated many of the most visited sites, they could no longer assume users would always default back to "traditional houses of journalism".
This meant the media had to find new ways of remaining relevant to a fragmented and disloyal audience.
"For regulators like the ACCC, it means ensuring regulation relied on during the last century does not become an irrelevant fallback position that fails to serve the public's best interests," he said.
Mr Samuel said moves by traditional media outlets to "lock up" their premium online content and make it available only to subscribers had largely been unsuccessful.
Some media outlets had responded to the digital age by including blogs - moderated by journalists - alongside traditional articles and commentary on websites.
Television stations were also making content available online and radio was podcasting and streaming on-demand content.
Mr Samuel said ACCC's role was to ensure content did not become locked in the hands of the few, to the detriment of consumers or advertisers.
"Despite the apparent increase in diversity that the digital age promises, there are still very real risks that we may end up the poorer if we do not keep our eye on just where control lies for the material we want to receive," Mr Samuel said.
"As I've mentioned before, with the actual distribution models constantly changing, second-guessing and trying to control the dominant platforms isn't likely to be a successful strategy."
Thanks...Diana
There doesn't seem to be a way to 'password protect' this page yet - simply because not everyone has put their details up on here. If I locked it out then no one would be able to find it that wasn't already here on this list (sorry, that sounds like gobbledeegook - who'd ever think I was a 'communicator', hey?!)
sharon DOT cartwright AT impact DOT com DOT au
Alex