James Purser [INSERT WITTY CATCHPHRASE HERE]

pIf you live in the Kensington area of the Randwick Local Government area, you should be recieving a pamphlete informing you of the launch of a new site - a href=http://kensotraffic.com.aukensotraffic.com.au/a, specifically put together to both get information out to the public about the ongoing issues of traffic and transport in the Kensington area, and to get feedback from the residents./p pa href=http://collaborynth.com.au/blog/kensotraffic.com.au target=_blankread more/a/p

pWell, it seems that the realm of Public Service Information and what should be done with it, just got a little more interesting./p pThe Australian Bureau of Statistics has announced that has part of it's a href=http://abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310114.nsf/Home/Website+Changes+Coming+Soon#Creative%20Commonsweb site revamp/a, it's going to be releasing most of the content under a a href=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/au/Creative Commons license/a that allows the following:/p pa href=http://collaborynth.com.au/blog/ABS_Goes_Creative_Commons target=_blankread more/a/p

pYesterday I spoke about the Federal Governments shiny new a href=http://collaborynth.com.au/blog/Federal_Government_Starts_BloggingDigital Economy blog/a and the question of what to do with Public Service Information (PSI)./p pWell here's an excellent example of what you can build using freely available PSI and tools such as Google Maps./p pa href=http://collaborynth.com.au/blog/GotGastro_Mashes_PSI_and_Google_Maps target=_blankread more/a/p

pI've just posted my first comment onto the Governments new a href=http://www.dbcde.gov.au/communications_for_business/industry_development/digital_economy/future_directions_blogDigital Economy Blog/a, specifically on the subject of a href=http://www.dbcde.gov.au/communications_for_business/industry_development/digital_economy/future_directions_blog/topics/open_accessOpen Access to Public Service Information/a./p pa href=http://collaborynth.com.au/blog/Federal_Government_Starts_Blogging target=_blankread more/a/p

pLast week I managed to make dimdim do my bidding, and I was able to hold an hour long introduction to the new a href=http://collaborynth.com.au/Local_Government_Services/CouncillorNetCouncillorNet/a service I was launching./p pWhen it worked it was actually quite impressive, easy to use and the ability to switch between desktop sharing and presentation was quite useful./p pa href=http://collaborynth.com.au/blog/Webinar_Take_2_-_Open_Source_And_Local_Government target=_blankread more/a/p

pI'm happy to announce a new service that Collaborynth hopes to provide to Councils across the country./p pa href=http://collaborynth.com.au/blog/Introducing_CouncillorNet target=_blankread more/a/p

pWhen I'm talking to clients, one of the things I really try and avoid doing is breaking out into Lingua Marketing. That very special language spoken by sales and marketing which can bamboozle the best of us. I don't like it and I don't think it's necessary. Even worse is when I see very cool ideas succumb to the perils of Lingua Marketing, I tend to get annoyed./p pOne such cool idea - more a collection of ideas really - is the concept of Web2.0./p pa href=http://collaborynth.com.au/blog/Web2.0_-_Taking_Some_Of_The_Marketing_Out target=_blankread more/a/p

p Just as a quick follow up to my previous post about Social Networking and Local Government, the a href=http://www.lgsa-plus.net.au/www/html/2544-lga-conference-2008.asp title=LGA 08 target=_blankLocal Government Association Conference/a is currently taking place in sunny Broken Hill, and they're encouraging participants who have twitter accounts, a href=http://search.twitter.com/search?q=lga08 title=Local Government Association Conference 08 on twitter target=_blankto micro blog their time/a. /p pa href=http://collaborynth.com.au/blog/LGA_Conference_On_Twitter target=_blankread more/a/p

p As some of you may know, I have joined the micro-blogging craze and registered myself a a href=http://www.twitter.com/purserj title=My Twitter Feed target=_blanktwitter account/a and it's been an interesting experience, something like a cross between slow motion irc and blogging. /p pa href=http://collaborynth.com.au/blog/Social_Networking_and_Local_Governments target=_blankread more/a/p

p When I'm not building up the business or exploring the world of New Media, I like to work on the vegie garden that we're building at home. We started this a month ago as a way to both teach the kids about the wonders of growing things and to take vegies out of the shopping equation. So far we're doing pretty well, however I've learnt some lessons in building the garden that can definitely be applied to building a collaborative project. /p p b1. Ensure Your Bed Is Built Right/b /p pa href=http://collaborynth.com.au/blog/Building_A_Collaborative_Project_is_Like_Growing_A_Garden target=_blankread more/a/p

p It's always nice to see your work being recognised, and last week Randwick Council, one of our local government clients – was awarded a Merit Award for Corporate Sustainability Excellence in Local Government. They achieved this through the use of an Extranet system that we support and host for them. /p pa href=http://collaborynth.com.au/blog/Randwick_Council_Merits_Award%20 target=_blankread more/a/p