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Job Opportunity @ Collabforge
Exciting paid opportunity to work with Collabforge, the leading-edge collaboration strategy company (www.Collabforge.com). Our past projects include Future Melbourne (www.futuremelbourne.com.au) and Parks Victoria's wePlan (www.weplan.parks.vic.gov.au).
We are looking for social media marketing campaign coordinators. You will be integral to the success of a social media marketing campaign surrounding a high profile television campaign being run by a governmental agency.
We are looking for candidates that use social media sites often (Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr etc.).
Individuals from regional and rural Victoria strongly encouraged to apply.
If you are interested please forward your resume and a short email telling us a little bit about what social media sites you use and how often you use them.
Please Email Responses to: jobs@collabforge.com
Creating A Cyber Gallery
http://www.visualarts.net.au/creatingacybergallery
This case study was developed to be read in association with the Theory in Practice Series.
Case 4. Creating A Cyber Gallery
OpenCourseWare Consortium
An OpenCourseWare is a free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses. The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of more than 200 higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model. The mission of the OpenCourseWare Consortium is to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
Social Media Conversations
By Jonathon Hutchinson, 2008
If the embed is not working, here is a link.
http://mi2-pnr.wikispaces.com/2.+Social+Media+Conversations
Web 2.0 Research Workshop
Research Methodologies Workshop
December 15th and 16th, 2008
School of Culture and Communication
University of Melbourne
The School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne
is seeking applications from researchers who wish to take part in a
two day methodologies workshop with Professor Geert Lovink (Director,
War of the Worlds on Twitter
There has been a flurry of twitter posts re-enacting Orson Wells radio broadcast in 1938 of The War of the Worlds. This could be another example of what I just wrote my MFA thesis about, social media art. http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23wotw2
Great Meeting
I want to take this moment to thank Darren Sharp again for his talk on 'User-Led Innovation' and also thank everyone who came to the meeting and discussed the concepts raised. The discussion about agency and self determination was most interesting for me, particularly when we spoke about the broader social issues, such as poverty in Africa and Global Warming.
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Copyright?
It’s time to make some risky choices
By Doug Johnson -- School Library Journal, 10/1/2008
http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6600687.html
50 Ways Marketers Can use Social Media to Improve Their Marketing
http://www.chrisbrogan.com/50-ways-marketers-can-use-social-media-to-imp...
"50 Ways Marketers Can use Social Media to Improve Their Marketing
July 14, 2008
Innovation Minister Supports Open Access Education
"The Australian today is running a story claiming that Innovation Minister, Kim Carr favors a regime whereby recipients of grants will be required to make their research findings publicly available. This represents a revolution in the Australian research space and something that has been sorely needed for a long time." Read More: http://www.acidlabs.org/2008/09/24/free-their-minds/
Hazel Dooneys Website
http://www.hazeldooney.com/
This is a great example of a folio website with a blog combination. Hazel Dooney is a great self promoter and manages the tightrope of commercial and quality practice. Well worth checking out.
Meeting #2 PODcast
This meeting was fascinating. First Mark Elliott talks about his PhD thesis on 'Stigmergy: A Theoretical Framework for Mass Collaboration' and his and Marcus Leonards project 'Future Melbourne'.
Oovoo
ooVoo adds the human experience into communicating online. Its like Skype, but a little better, and its free.
Journalism 2.0: How to Survive and Thrive
A digital literacy guide for the information age
http://www.kcnn.org/resources/journalism_20/
Some Useful Sites and Services for Artists Websites
Okay guys, by now you are in the middle of seriously planning your Internet debut, or at least seriously ramping up your web presence. In order to show what is available online I have put together some links.
Networking
Pool.org.au
Pool is a social media project developed by ABC Radio National. It's a place to share your creative work with the Pool community and ABC producers - upload music, photos, videos, documentaries, interviews, animations and more. It's a collaborative space where audiences become makers.
PBwiki (free wikis)
PBwiki is the world's largest provider of hosted business and educational wikis. We host over 500,000 wikis, serve millions of users per month, and 96% of our business users would recommend PBwiki to a friend.
The World Wide Web and Global Famine
Kim Gleeson raised some inspirational points during the August '08 SMS meeting regarding the challenges of the global food crisis being brought about by the steep rise in the cost of oil. His research has shown that around half the popluation of the world are suffering serious food shortages due to the rising cost of staples.
eGovernance and Democratic Dissemination
Mark Elliott talked to the SMS group yesturday about his PhD thesis on stigmergy and then went on to show how he is applying his 'theoretical framework for mass collaboration' in the Future Melbourne project (http://www.futuremelbourne.com.au/).
July Meeting PODcast
This is a 1h45m discussion about the formation of the Social Media Service and the scope of the project. We cover a range of projects, ideas, inputs and offers made by the contributors. All content in this discussion remain the property of the contributors.
