The third annual Marion Mahony Griffin Lecture by Rosemarie Willett will be 12 April 2011 in Canberra:Walter Burley Griffin Society Inc invites you to the third annualMarion Mahony Griffin LectureTuesday 12 April 2011 at 6.00pmCanberra Business Event Centre, Regatta Point, Commonwealth Park, CanberraMarion Mahony Griffin Architect: feisty true believer and free spirita talk by RosemarieRead… Read more »
We’ve all been there. We have all been in terrible meetings or run terrible meetings. I know I have. I catch myself even now doing a poor job at planning and managing a discussion well. It’s so simple to do it well. Why don’t we do it more often? Why do I forget the basicsRead… Read more »
Last night I went on a nostalgia trip. It involved standing in an absolutely rammed and frankly, over sold Academy 1 in Manchester watching the Levellers, supported by The Wonder Stuff, as they played the entirety of Levelling the Land end to end. Shouldn’t this be in your other blog Lou? I hear you ask.Read… Read more »
Check out my new column on www.OhMyGov.com – http://ohmygov.com/blogs/general_news/archive/2011/03/18/how-to-win-the-hearts-and-minds-of-your-employees-part-1.aspx
Greetings from BarCamp Canberra 2011 in in Canberra, where the “lightening” five minute talks end the day. One of interest was Tim Conway who says he is giving a talk on Social Networking in Damascus is a few weeks time. He requested input to his twitter address @conwaytb Original post
Greetings from BarCamp Canberra 2011 in in Canberra, where John Sheridan, First Assistant Secretary, Austrlaian Government Information Management Office is talking about how he uses social networking in Government (AGIMO are sponsoring the event). After giving good advice on what to say (and not say) and how to use it generally (there is a “AGIMORead… Read more »
Greetings from BarCamp Canberra 2011 in in Canberra, where Pia Waugh and myself just talked on “Designing for Dialogue”. My notes are in “Designing for Dialogue: How do we design buildings and on-line systems for people to talk, learn and make decisions together”. I argued that the same buildings discussion and on-line systems used forRead… Read more »
Dr. Sushant Sinha of Yahoo! India has posted Indian Kanoon: The Genesis and the Legal Thirst, on the VoxPopuLII Blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School. In this post, Dr. Sinha describes the origins and development of Indian Kanoon, the free legal search engine for India, for which Dr. SinhaRead… Read more »
With budgets tight throughout the country and any serious economic recovery years away, states and municipalities are turning to technology to increase efficiency and save money. One example of innovation in action is the Mucker (its actual name is the Microtraxx Tunnel Mucker). The Mucker is used to excavate sediment from culverts and was createdRead… Read more »
Greetings from BarCamp Canberra 2011 in the new Commerce building at the Australian National University in Canberra. There are about two hundred delegates for the free event, but there is room for a few more, so come along.The first session for the day is about how to give a presentation by Donna Spencer (@maadonna) .Read… Read more »