June 2009 - Posts
Research out of the US has found that while computer science studies are highly regarded by college-bound teenagers there is a substantial negative image of the profession – particularly among women. The findings of a nationwide online survey of 1,406
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Let me be honest – I titled this blog ‘Digital Democracy ” not because I wanted to discuss that subject particularly but rather to get more attention on the web through the search engines. My digital media friends have a few tricks. Such is the reality
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Yesterday’s announcement by Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner and Special Minister of State, Senator Joe Ludwig, of a taskforce to investigate how the Australian Government can use new ‘Web 2.0’ approaches to expand the uses of Commonwealth information
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There are times when it may seem that a glacier moves faster than change in the public service. I declare an interest – I spent six years in the Federal Department of Finance in the late 80s and early 1990s at a time when ‘significant’ changes were made
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Winners of the Next 100. Tracey Fellows, Managing Director, Microsoft Australia (second from left) with Prime Minister Rudd (fourth from left ). Prime Minister Kevin Rudd yesterday named 10 outstanding young Australians as emerging leaders at a
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Microsoft Australia were sponsors of a luncheon organised today by the Australia Israel Chamber of Commerce which included a keynote address by the Deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard on the topic “The Productivity Agenda in Challenging Times”. The keynote
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By 2010, Millennials and Generation Y will outnumber Baby Boomers and 96 percent of this new generation will have joined an online social network. According to measurement firm Hitwise, Twitter -- one of the newest and most popular social networks --
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