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iif2009 and 666 ABC Radio

On Thursday 26 March, a day before the Innovative Ideas Forum, I was interviewed on Drive by Louise Maher of 666 ABC Radio.
You can listen to the radio interview at the Library’s webcasts page.

Jo Kay – Freelance Geek

A look inside Second Life – “life beyond reality where imagination knows no bounds”! This is as close as I have ever got to Second Life. Jo began by showing a video made by user-generated content in 2006. She has the Islands of Jokaydia blog – see jokaydia.com.
Second Life is a virtual world that provides [...]

Jillian Delitt – Schooling and Social Networking

Horizon Report 2009 K-12 – the organiser for today’s talk.
Jillian reflects on her teaching experience of 40 years ago – not able to talk to parents, rostering one child to sit outside the classroom to manage class sizes, teaching schedule. While this seems archaic, similar ‘restricitions’ exist today, including in relation to access to social [...]

1st session after lunch – Darren Sharp

Mark Corbould is busy doing the housekeeping for the last session of the day. The room is looking a little less crowded this afternoon but there also now seem to be more laptops balanced precariously on laps.
Darren Sharp is the first speaker during this final afternoon session. He is speaking about “Co-creating culture with [...]

Connecting with Audiences in the Digital Age

Things I know now courtesy of the ABC’s Mark Scott:

4.6 million Australians have signed up to Facebook
last year, 10,000 audience-created ads were submitted to The Gruen Transfer online
last night, the ABC’s Q&A program was the number one subject on Twitter around the world
talk-back radio is the first ‘user-generated’ content (should have worked that one out [...]

IIF2009 – Morning Tea

I have come back to my desk to discover that Debbie Campbell has been blogging successfully from the National Library Theatre. Bravo. I am still wrestling with the technology.
Anne Summers has just given a stunning presentation, ranging across the many ways in which she uses social networking tools for marketing, research and to promote causes [...]

iif2009 on ABC 666 Radio

Listen this afternoon to Drive at ABC 666 Radio for a brief interview about the Forum. See social networking grow at iif2009.
Drive

Live Blogging

Anticipating Friday’s Innovative Ideas Forum 2009, I have been giving a lot of thought to the notion of live blogging. Should I sit in a back row of the National Library’s Theatre balancing a laptop on my knee and juggling listening, responding, blogging? Will I be annoyed by the tap, tap, [...]

Awards Season

It’s awards season – just in case you hadn’t noticed. And the keynote speaker at the Innovative Ideas Forum, Marcus Gillezeau, is one of a team nominated for a International Digital Emmy® Award. Marcus has been nominated along with co-producer Ellenor Cox, and collaborators Michael O’Neill and Brad Hayward for their all-media drama Scorched. Marcus [...]

Social networks for iif2009

If you’re planning on attending the Forum, or just interested in what’s happening, you can watch the social networks grow at the ‘Social networks for iif2009′ page.
To participate in the Forum’s social network, tag your blog posts, presentations or Flickr photos with the tag  iif2009. If you’re using twitter, use the hash-tag – #11f2009 in [...]