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Don’t prosecute the messenger

by Alex on 25. Feb, 2010 in Blog, Opinion, Technology

I subscribe to the Google Public Policy Blog and get updates every few days. Today, I got sent a story about a case in Italy where three Google executives have been prosecuted for a video of an autistic student being bullied at school.
In late 2006, students at a school in Turin, Italy filmed and then [...]

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Seven online campaigning activities you should already be doing

by Alex on 01. Feb, 2010 in Blog, Campaigning, Elections, Technology

In Australia, most elections take place during the normal, general election period. The accepted wisdom is that local campaigns make up, at most, 3 percent of a candidate’s primary vote. The rest comes from the central campaign from party head office: television ads, the leader’s personal appeal, the party’s policies and so on.
There are some [...]

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Collaborative online tools for political campaigning

by Alex on 21. Jan, 2010 in Blog, Campaigning, Elections, Technology

You don’t need to be a big national campaign to use the myriad suite of free online tools. With the analysis of the Brown victory in Massachusetts continuing, it is emerging that this state-level campaign made extensive use of Google Apps:
But something else has Google reps particularly chuffed: how much the Brown campaign, they say, [...]

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Using Google Docs in your union campaign

by Alex on 14. Jan, 2010 in Blog, Campaigning, Technology

Google Documents is a free online service that provides word processing and spreadsheets that are stored online (in the “cloud”).

Google Docs basically allows you to mimic Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint. The main feature (in my view) is that it is online, so it can be accessed from any computer connected to the Internet, and [...]

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Migrating to Google Mail

by Alex on 14. Jan, 2010 in Blog, Technology

Macquarie University has announced that it will migrate its staff email accounts over to Gmail:
About 14 Australian universities have already outsourced their student email to Gmail or Microsoft’s Live@edu service, but this week Macquarie became the first to migrate staff to the so-called cloud in a deal with Gmail.
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However, the university was concerned that data [...]

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