Are you going? Media 08 Australia’s Annual Report for Digital Professionals. Friday 7th March, 9.00am – 5.30pmJones Bay Wharf, Pyrmont, Sydney Australia’s leading digital media organisations, Fairfax Digital and X|Media|Lab, bring you a one-day executive briefing on all you need to know about digital media for the year 2008. “Media ’08″ brings together world leading experts from the UK, the US, India, China, Australia, the Middle East and Korea, to present on the most significant trends and innovations happening or about to happen across the spectrum of digital media: The Media and The Message; Generation Cellphone; Video and Interactivity; Platforms Continue Reading…
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I’m feeling lazy today, so a ‘filtering’ post (not original content). Brought to you direct from Twitter blog: Twittering for The Children Yesterday I received this email from one of our Dutch Twitter fans. Biz, This morning, dutch journalist and TV presenter Francisco van Jole (@2525) asked if the dutch twitterazi did anything for the OLPC project. I responded by suggesting we’d have a fund raising day today; every tweet with the term ‘olpc’ in it would count as one euro sponsorship money. Since such laptops cost about 140 euro’s, @2525 said he would buy one if we’d reach 140 Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 3:13 pm Tagged with: Christmas, EUR, Francisco van Jole, journalist, social media, social networks
Nov 232007
I’ve never hosted a blog carnivale before and I’m totally allergic to memes but here goes: There is a media blackout around 48 hours before an election (thanks BronwenZ!), which means that we, the great unwashed, the “unprofessional” Citizen Journalist, Cult writers for the Amateurs Bloggers unExtraordinaire can play up. We have an open playing field. So here goes- three thingies about the election (I put more thought into these than I did into voting):Who could forget Star Wars?:and then there’s lolpols from the Greens (on Flickr) and last but not least… Bennelong Time Rock and Roll Tag, you’re it. Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 9:52 pm Tagged with: Andrew Boyd, Bloggers unExtraordinaire can play up, Donna Maurer, Eve I've, journalist, laurel papworth, media blackout, Online Communities, Ruth Ellison, Shaun Connell, social media, Social Media Australia, stephen collins
EDIT: I had a very nice voicemail from NZ Police Superintendent Hamish McCardle, the officer in charge of developing the new act – he wanted to let us know that they agree about transparency and that today the wiki is back up as a Document of Record. He also mentioned that they got a huge amount of press coverage overseas including the BBC. The Sydney Morning Herald asked me about a New Zealand Wiki that had emerged out of the New Zealand Police Department. I (of course) pretended I was completely up to speed on it all, while madly Googling Continue Reading…
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I heard about this on Wednesday – anyone told the Australian Financial Review yet? (Here are my previous pieces on AFR here and here). On Tuesday at midnight this week the New York Times released its archives since 1987 from behind the previous for-pay wall that kept those archives from being searched. Already, it is possible to find articles in those archives through Google and other search engines. As an exercise in how search engines in the open Internet cut through the chaos of billions of Web pages to find what you ask them for, pick a topic that interest Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 2:43 pm Tagged with: Amazon, editor and citizen advertising manager, Google, journalist, large online communities, new york times, Online Communities, online sites, open internet, Search, search engines, social media, Social Media Australia, social networks, The internet traffic, the New York Times, user generated content
I was just speaking with someone about Wild Wicked Wanton Women of Web 2.0 in Australia – she’s a journalist, so, like dentists, I can’t reveal her name/face. – and we chatted about how creative and passionate women are in the Web 2.0 world. And then, golly gosh look, this Digital Beach event rocks up to my inbox from AIMIA. Here are the speakers: Siimona Reynolds, Creative Director, LoveDavida Whittle, Managing Director, MarkAllana Dib, Managing Director Pacific, Nielsen//NetRatingsKierana Ots, Digital Creative Director, Leo Burnett Asia PacificJoeline Thomson, Digital Creative Director, Publicis MojoJustine Hind, Chief Operating Officer, DownstreamTomasina Hutton, Interactive Creative Continue Reading…
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Aug 122007
NB: There’s an EDIT UPDATE at the bottom about this debate. Click on it, I dare you. “Forget Objective Reporting” AFR Feb 2006 I feel sorry for The Australian Financial Review, I really do. Out of all mainstream media, they get this web 2.0 thing the least. And it’s our only daily financial newspaper. *sad* The poor poppets. That clipping above is from February 2006 – I wrote to AFR saying that (in case you can’t read the picture): “…aren’t collaborative journalism, web 2.0, user generated content , personalised media and so on and so forth, the buzz words for Continue Reading…
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May 182007
EDIT (cos I forgot there are non-Australians out there who wander into this blog) Senator Helen Coonan, Federal Minister for umm telecommunications and umm IT things, keynoted at a small conference CommunIT (Not for Profit IT) conference in small-town Adelaide, South Australia on BroadBand for Rural Australia. She spoke and left with no question-time. Ack, I should’ve written this up earlier when it was all fresh and pumping. Is that why blogs are so darn addictive? Anyway, here goes. Politics have to change the way they “use” conferences and events to launch their bits of paper. I’m serious. Preaching to Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 2:28 pm Tagged with: 3G, broadband, CEO, Federal Minister, fibre networks, food, Helen Coonan, Helen Coonan etc, journalist, products/services, public speaker, Senator, Social Media Australia, South Australia, telstra, umm telecommunications, worship telecommunications
Mar 052007
AlooTechie put me on to this little slap-a-rama between Wired who claim Yahoo! could of won against Google in the early days and Wired pulls no punches, no sirree. Here’s the Wired article and here’s Yahoo’s response. The key to me was this paragraph: Terry Semel — a legendary Hollywood dealmaker, a guy who didn’t even use email — had not come to Silicon Valley to meekly merge with the geeky boys of Google. He had come to turn Yahoo into the next great media giant. Which might explain why the face of the famously serene CEO was slowly turning Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 7:35 pm Tagged with: baby giant, CEO, criteria traditional media, famously serene CEO, Google, Head, journalist, media giant, Online Communities, sms, Social Media Australia, social networks, Terry Semel, USD, user generated content, web 2.0, Yahoo!
Nov 052006
If you buy today’s Sydney Morning Herald, you will see that I have a couple of paragraphs – go to The Guide/Icon, open to the middle (yes where the staples are!) and the article by Neena Bhandari called Upgrade Your Brain. I can’t find it on the SMH website (typical!) but if I do, I’ll link it here. It’s just guff about wiki and blogs and user generated content and how my courses are so critical for anyone wanting to get ahead in marketing today. Heh. Neena’s really nice BTW. Thought you should know that. And, I’m teaching another Social Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 5:41 pm Tagged with: Icon, journalist, laurel papworth, Newscorp, Online Communities, Social Media Australia, social networks, sydney morning herald, user generated content, web 2.0, Your Brain, youtube
Aug 102006
Thanks to Crikey! (I did subscribe) re: Blogging the Terror Threat. Their link to RexBlog brought up this snippet: Yahoo News using Flickr today as a citizen journalist tool (and a how-to do it yourself):The front page of Yahoo! News is featuring a link to a slide show of photos related to today’s airport backups. It’s a nice use of a standard Flickr feature that can be used in such a breaking-news situation where lots of people are able to share photos from their individual vantage points. The ubiquity of cell phone cameras and the ability to post such photos Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 11:15 pm Tagged with: cellular telephone, citizen journalist tool, Flickr, journalist, mainstream online media, mobile, mobile phones, News Ltd, Online Communities, Social Media Australia, Ultrasone (PRO 750) Professional Headphones, Yahoo!, youtube
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