Category: Government
CityRail offering Free Wifi
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If you are a Sydney train commuter you may now be able to get free Wifi whilst you are on platform waiting for your train. The other day I caught a train to Circular Quay and I noticed this sticker at ticket exit of the station. To my surprise you were able to get Free [...]
NBN Co outsourcing heavily overseas
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NBN Co is the government department responsible for rolling out Australia’s super fast National Broadband Network. However it has been revealed many of the suppliers and contractors to this project are foreign owned and controlled companies, prompting the local technology and IT industry to criticise the government for not supporting local suppliers. Swedish company Ericsson [...]
ACCC, Small Business, Social Media
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New chairman of The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Rod Sims has admitted the organisation has not always engaged the best it could with small and medium sized businesses. Mr Sims has said the ACCC is looking to increase it’s use on Social Media platforms to connect better with the SME market. This is a [...]
Census Australia goes Social Media
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Australia is getting ready for Census night on Tuesday August 9, 2011. This year the Australian Bureau of Statistics has utilised Social Media channels to spread the word and get the community further engaged. The ABS has released some interesting facts about the census on Twitter, such as: – 29,000 volunteers helping distribute census forms. – [...]
Australia Post integrates Social Media
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Australia Post has now jumped on the social media bandwagon (and so they should), and are offering online support and advice to its social network followers. From a quick scan of their Twitter and Facebook accounts I can see they are offering a lot of feedback and responses to user questions. In terms of general [...]
Business.gov.au integrates Social Media
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The Australian Government has deeply integrated many Social Media networks into its Business website, business.gov.au (www.business.gov.au) It looks as though they already have a strong presence on Facebook and Twitter. You are also able to subscribe to a RSS feed of their latest news stories, or receive them via email. What is also interesting is [...]
Doing your BAS? Follow the ATO on Twitter
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So its time for us to submit our quarterly Business Activity Statements (BAS), and this time round I noticed something slightly different. Usually the ATO includes a help/practice sheet so we have something to draft up instead of mucking up the actual lodgement form. This time around I noticed the ATO has included a Social [...]
A Letter to Lachlan
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from Tim ON THE ROYAL WEDDING The wedding has been slated for St Peters, Westminster so as to avoid the comparisons with Diana that might have arisen from St Paul’s. Yet the engagement ring is Diana’s. It has not even been re-cut. Other English Royals have done something similar. They have been given a stone [...]
The Social Media Effect: It’s Role in Social Change and Social Responsibility
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Social Media allows those of ‘like mind’ to band together no matter how far apart they are in distance, and create a collaborative effort to create social change
Social Media and Political Elections – iVoted.com.au launches
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The 2010 Victorian State Election will be one of the most socially connected elections in Australian electoral history. iVoted.com.au will visualize the check-ins of foursquare users on Saturday, 27 November 2010. The website was launched last Wednesday, 17 November 2010. Foursquare users in Victoria can check-in to any venue marked with a special polling booth [...]
South Australian Government Social Media Policy
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The South Australian Government has released a Social Media Policy for it’s staff. Basically the dos and don’t of how Government staff are to use Social Media. It is interesting to read through their guidelines and how they intend to harness the power of Social Media. To view the policy, go here: www.espi.sa.gov.au/files/socialmedia_guidelines.pdf The South [...]
Bizarre – Mosman Council, HSC Students, Rap music
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Am i the only person who think this is a little bizarre. Mosman Council has created a great campaign where HSC students can goto the Mosman library exclusively for periods of time to prepare for their HSC exams. The library will even give the students treats as ‘energy food’ to help their studies. Good stuff [...]
Australian Political Election 2010, heats up [VIDEO]
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Ok, the election is just around the corner. Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott are at it, hard.. check out the latest video of their campaigning. typical politics..
Julia Gillard joins Twitter
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Australia’s first female Prime Minister – Julia Gillard has now officially joined Twitter. Julia’s first tweet: I’ve decided it’s time to take the Twitter plunge! Hopefully I’ll master it. JG. Yes – we hope so too! : ) You can follow Julia on Twitter at http://twitter.com/juliagillard Gillard now has over 10,000 followers just 1 day [...]
Russian President Medvedev goes to Twitter HQ, Apple HQ
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has recently gone on a tour of Silicon Valley in California in an effort to create a similar tech central in Moscow, Russia. Medvedev went to Twitter HQ where he met co-founders Ev Williams and Biz Stone and even created a Twitter account and sent out his first tweets – learning [...]
Australian Government to buy Telstra copper network
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The Australian Government has negotiated a deal with Telstra to buy their entire copper network for $11 Billion. The deal is awaiting shareholder and regulatory approval. Telstra will decommission its monopoly of copper cables and make room for the Australian government’s fiber and move its customers to the new fibre 100Mbps National Broadband Network (NBN). [...]
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