Where's the Future? Or WTF? Is a blog that serves two goals. One, to create conversation about technology, web, social media and trends that are affecting organisations, government, small business and people today. And two, as a way for me to share my knowledge about the things I have learnt working with and for over 100 communities across Australia.
When it comes to making an impact, connecting and collaborating online we should all be asking, WTF? Or, Where's the Future?
I now have a new blog section called Hits from the Blog it's a shorter, more informal blog - I feel better about having a dedicated space that's a bit looser.
Unless it's one of my awesome memes, all images in the blog are from the excellent Gratisography website.
It's been one year since I put my hand up at work and said “can I please have a go at running the company?" At five months pregnant it was the most logical thing for me to do. But I couldn’t do...
Posted on Nov 15, 2016
Summary of this post: That I think organisations are wasting money by building apps . I had this post sitting unpublished this week and after seeing a third example...
Posted on Nov 10, 2016
My sister and her family recently moved to a town in Queensland. Both her and her partner found work with business that are using apps to schedule out their work. For her partner it's working out...
Posted on Nov 7, 2016
I only know awesome men so I don't really understand the men behind the online vitriol targeted at women, but it pisses me off. This post is about taking the meme back. Memes are hil-ar-ious - and...
Posted on Oct 21, 2016
If I ran a not for profit I'd have a swear jar and have the team pay a fine every time anyone said the phrase "we are just a not for profit". I hear it a lot, and I cringe every time. On...
Posted on Sep 13, 2016
It might be frustrating, but you really owe it to your community and site visitors to find shades that pass. Sorry. Designer: Ahhh only two of these colours pass wcag accessibility...
Posted on Aug 18, 2016
I was pretty shocked to see how poor the WCAG accessibility of the new Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet (PM&C) website is. It wouldn't pass A let alone AA, I know committment to...
Posted on Aug 3, 2016
A Country-Code Top Level Domain (ccTDL) is the the bit in your url that adds the country identifier - so the .au or the .uk - the bit you add to your .com or .org - which does tend to get hijacked by...
Posted on Jul 25, 2016
This is a follow up to my previous post on the Adelaide Zoo's PokemonGo map and their use of social media to promote it. It was a bit negative in that it was opinon based (hey, my blog), but I will...
Posted on Jul 21, 2016