It’s a pity that our Australian politicians are too afraid to spend on broadband infrastructure, despite their claims to the contrary.
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GreenEnergTV offers useful self-help information and ideas, especially so now that Prime Minister Rudd has blown the chance for he and Australia to be a ‘leader’ and has instead doomed our Great Barrier Reef to destruction.
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I never realised how prevalent domestic violence against men is. We all know stories of male-initiated violence against women, perhaps we even know the perpetrators or victims themselves, but violence against men? Being beaten up by your girlfriend or wife is certainly not something that the average Aussie bloke would own up to, I would [...]
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There’s an interesting rhetoric going around Australia at the moment. It seems to have been imported from the US and the UK and has been growing in strength over the last decade and a half. Ever since Reaganomics and Thatcherite values came to fruition, there has been a growing sense within Australia that being poor [...]
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Corporate blogging policies – the CNN fiasco continues
by Lee Hopkins on August 31, 2008 · 0 comments
in blogging,podcasting,politics,pr,public speaking,second life,second life & 3d virtual worlds,tools,video
Herewith, for your education and enlightenment, a cutting from CNN’s Social Media policy.
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PsyOps for SL?
by Lee Hopkins on June 4, 2008 · 0 comments
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Courtesy of the ever-vigilant Stefan Didak: "The Pentagon is running an artificial intelligence program to see how people will react to propaganda and to government-inflicted terror. The program is called Sentient World Simulation: "U.S defense, intel and homeland security officials are constructing a parallel world, on a computer, which the agencies will use to test [...]
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Clippings – 30th May 2008
by Lee Hopkins on May 30, 2008 · 0 comments
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And if you don’t know who Dr Joe Vitale is, don’t worry. Someone else who does will get the information ahead of you anyway and learn how to effectively position theirs and their clients’ products and services in this new communication landscape before you have even figured if the Social Media world is relevant to your business
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Senior Communicators need Responsibility AND Authority
by Lee Hopkins on May 18, 2008 · 0 comments
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The most recent fiasco in the long-running saga of the trams in Adelaide (I won’t bore you with the details, save that they are too few and don’t seem to like rain) has brought me to the point of frustration. There seem to be two issues here: one of ‘Responsibility’ and one of ‘Authority’ (classic [...]
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Bob LeDrew and the sad tale of Ottawa’s Mayor
by Lee Hopkins on April 16, 2008 · 0 comments
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And to prove that ‘cluelessness’ is not just a corporate affliction, Ottawa’s Mayor Larry O’Brien has given us a spectacular example of how NOT to engage with the media. As Bob LeDrew comments, I’ve been interested in politics — as an observer — for a long time. And since buying a house here in Ottawa [...]
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