Trevor Cook on public relations, social media and politics

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“Helplessness” expert helps Canberra public servants

February 26, 2009 – 8:21 am

I love Senate estimates, Lionel Murphy’s great gift to Australian democracy. Long hours of tedium relieved by the occasional exposure of bureaucratic management folly, of which there is much. So I experienced feelings of joy, delight and unbridled enthusiasm when I saw the vision of some senior bureaucrats explaining why they had spent a million [...]

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Change doesn’t always mean happiness

January 26, 2009 – 4:15 pm

One of my favourite authors is John McGahern. In his Memoir, McGahern writes (p80):
I take the belief that the best of life is life lived quietly, where change is imperceptible, where nothing happens but our calm journey through the day, where change is imperceptible and the precious life is everything.
You could hardly imagine a viewpoint [...]

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How happy is your social network?

December 11, 2008 – 6:21 pm

New research (which included a facebook component) found:
social networks have clusters of happy and unhappy people within them that reach out to three degrees of separation. A person’s happiness is related to the happiness of their friends, their friends’ friends, and their friends’ friends’ friends—that is, to people well beyond their social horizon. We found [...]

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