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2020 Summit

2020 Summit: Objective Journalists vs Passionate Blogging

by Laurel Papworth on March 5, 2008 · 5 comments

If you read an article about curing cancer by a journalist do you assume the journalist is the expert in curing cancer? If you see a blog, or a group blog, dedicated to writing, creating and discussion cancer cures, would you think the blogger had more indepth knowledge and life experience in assessing cancer cures [...]

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Blog about Jordan Day

by Laurel Papworth on March 3, 2008 · 2 comments

I spent some time in Jordan – mostly as a tourist, wandering around Petra and fighting with donkeys. I won.

Hi all,
This is an initiative to start something that will hopefully last for years to come. March 12th of Every year will be called. Blog about Jordan day.
You don’t have [...]

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2020 Summit Australia: Here Come the Yoof (youth summit)

by Laurel Papworth on March 2, 2008 · 2 comments

OMG Australia 2020 Youth Summit FTW kthnxbai
*waves* hi to those people who have been sending links to their 2020 Summit communities online. I’m sorry I can’t respond to all of you in person – though by the looks of these sites, you’ve been doing some great work.

OzIdeas on WetPaint
Bang The Table
2020Summit (I’m involved with that [...]

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Australia 2020 Summit: Where are the bloggers?

by Laurel Papworth on March 2, 2008 · 3 comments

Maybe bloggers have too much to say?

HeraldSun.com.au has made a big deal about the ad hoc invitations that traditional media are receiving directly from Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s lips:

Kevin Rudd locks more media outlets in behind his summit:
The Sunday Age is offering one reader to take a brilliant idea to the Prime Minister 2020 [...]

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Summit 2020 in Australia

by Laurel Papworth on February 5, 2008 · 0 comments

Sometimes the first 2500 experts you ask are wrong. Particularly if you only pull in the usual suspects. It might be time to avoid the ones who wrote a book as a way of self promotion and who rely on past glories, and look beyond the first 2500 that spring to mind for the [...]

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