2012 is shaping up to be an interesting and exciting year – and I don’t mean all that Mayan hype! I’m starting the month by moving from the Dunedin Public Libraries marketing team and joining the Dunedin City Council’s web team. The web team has in turn been incorporated in to a council wide communications and marketing team as part of some internal restructuring undertaken at the end of 2011. While I’ll still look after [...]

After working on an eBooks and eReader FAQ recently I’ve become aware of just how important the consistent use of descriptive language associated with this space will be to helping people come to grips with it all. Case in point are we all talking about devices (electronic equipment that enables an eBooks  to be read) when we discuss dedicated eReaders, laptops, smartphones etc. or are we using other terms interchangeably during our conversations with the [...]

Passion, People and Power is the theme for the 2011 LIANZA Conference to be held in Wellington at the Michael Fowler Centre, 30 October – 2 November. If you can’t make it in person – keep up with keynotes, workshops and other general buzz via CoveritLive. On my site you will find a dedicated CoveritLive feed for each day of the conference. All of the tweets from attendees who use the #lianza11 hashtag will be [...]

On Tuesday Oct 18th InternetNZ presented an election debate NetVision 2011 examining New Zealand’s digital future. There was a good representation from the major political parties and a chance to hear their views. The debate was streamed live from the Wellington City Gallery starting at 7pm with thanks to the nice folk at r2.co.nz I have embedded a copy of the the video stream below: Part 1 Part 2 It was an interesting debate as [...]