The November issue of the SMH’s Sydney magazine features a profile of the ABC’s managing director Mark Scott which contains this curious line on page 36: “Their scant private time is devoted to family; once identified as a prominent evangelical Christian, Scott now says he doesn’t attend any particular Church” Scott may not ‘attend’ any [...]

I recently participated in a SEEK volunteering exercise, my chosen task was to help the WSPA with some advice on social media.  I wasn’t alone. Here’s a list pf other bloggers who also gave up some time  for good causes: Life in Mono , Firebug Theme , Miss McMuffin , Autumn Leaves , Blogpost.com , [...]

Well done, Microsoft, a grant that will make a big difference to many people. MICROSOFTS biggest-ever Australian grant will help create social networks for the blind. Social networking websites and digitised libraries have become important sources of modern information, but until now they have been inaccessible to the 300,000 Australians who are blind or who [...]

Barack Obama has over 100,000 followers on twitter. According to Twitterholic, that’s a lot more than anyone else. On Facebook, Obama has 2.2 million “friends” compared to 745,000 for McCain. On MySpace, Obama has 588,000 friends compared to McCain’s 188,000. Twitter is just part of a highly successful internet strategy which also includes wikis, youtube [...]

We haven’t seen much effort in Australia yet to use web 2.0 technologies to empower citizens and re-invigorate our sagging democracies. Of course, it’s not going to happen in NSW under the Rees Government because they’re only interested in spin not participation. Federally, Rudd has said he is committed to open government so maybe he [...]

Darren Rowse: I’m excited to announce today that World Vision Australia and more specifically their blog Learn About Poverty (a blog that they have specifically set up for Blog Action Day which contains some fantastic resources for all bloggers wanting to participate in that very worthwhile project) are offering one Australian ProBlogger reader the chance to travel to Sydney [...]

Sally Falkow reports on a presentation by Adam Sarner, an analyst with market research firm Gartner: 75 percent of Fortune 1000 companies are eager to get involved in social-networking initiatives for marketing or customer relations purposes, but 50 percent of those campaigns will be classified as failures, predicts Sarner. What are they doing wrong? “(Businesses) [...]