Online Community for local area

ByLaurel Papworth February 16, 2008February 23, 2011

Anyone wanna help me build an online community for Potts Point? WikiMapia is the project – finally a reason for wanting popup ads! You find it amazing that everyday people would donate time and energy to mapping maps with useful information. I find it amazing that anyone found all-day parking that close to Sydney Harbour…

Anyone wanna help me build an online community for Potts Point?

WikiMapia is the project – finally a reason for wanting popup ads!

You find it amazing that everyday people would donate time and energy to mapping maps with useful information. I find it amazing that anyone found all-day parking that close to Sydney Harbour and that they would tell anyone!

Job: Web Programmer / Drupal Melbourne Australia

ByLaurel Papworth April 23, 2007

Thanks to Sime in the Australian Drupal community for this one: Web Programmer / DrupalD2P started in 1998 to deliver the very large and fragile hi-res artwork files used in publishing. We now license our technology through-out the world to ad agencies, publishers, design studios, printers and universities. We pride ourselves on being at the…

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unIndustry Organisation and the Bill of Rights of Social Media

ByLaurel Papworth September 6, 2007November 26, 2016

Were you there for the WebJam a few months ago where I talked about the need for an industry organisation – or an unIndustry organisation – to protect content providers and interactive media producers who happened to be you and me? To assert how and where and when we access our profiles, content, swarms, and…

Government vs Social Media and YouTube bullying video

ByLaurel Papworth March 18, 2011March 18, 2011

Today the Australian Government stepped up it’s campaign to hide the extent the epidemic of bullying that is occurring in schools by banning the evidence. As social media sites continue to turn over the rock of social evils and shine a light on social ills that we assumed were “rare” or “exaggerated” the Government’s response…

The impartial yet opinionated ABC editorial guidelines

ByLaurel Papworth October 17, 2006

I wandered into The Sydney Institute’s function on Monday night, where the speaker was Mark Scott, the new MD and Editor-in-Chief at the ABC. Mark is from Fairfax (and government and education). The ABC was announcing it’s new editorial guidelines. (script here) Both the tone and the content were strong statements. Mark clearly was laying…

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Hotels and Social Media Travel Tourism

ByLaurel Papworth January 15, 2010March 16, 2017

HotelsMag has come up with 10 Internet Marketing Resolutions for 2010 including social media ones. Interesting to juxtapose them against the reality of our booking with Discover Australia and staying at the York Fairmont in the Blue Mountains. Aaah Holidays. Who’d ‘ave ’em eh? Just had a rather crappy experience with Discover Australia – they…

Event – Web Directions Melbourne

ByLaurel Papworth July 17, 2006

Maxine Sherrin from WebDirections kindly sent me this: Take a look at where the web industry really is at in 2006, from both a technology and a business point of view, at this free event in Melbourne on August 10. Web Directions is excited to announce our first ever Melbourne event. Join us for an…

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Megan Rawlins says:

March 15, 2008 at 6:21 pm

Do you have any examples of local social networks like the one you are thinking of? I am trying to find examples to help set one up where I live in California.
Laurel Papworth says:

March 15, 2008 at 6:23 pm

Have a look at ‘backyard’ or ‘backfence’ – I think they used to white label a local area community online. Not sure if they are still around now. 🙁 Backfence I think it was…

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