Web 2.0 downunder

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• By:John
• May 16, 2007
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As we put the fin­ish­ing touches on the launch of Web Direc­tions South 2007 due in a cou­ple of days (I think you’ll be very excited withat what’s on offer), a cou­ple of things over at Fair­fax news­pa­pers that will hope­fully be of inter­est to the Web Direc­tions community.

Brad Howarth, prob­a­bly the most web savvy Aussie journo has a long arti­cle pub­lished today at the Her­ald and the Age about Web 2.0 in the enter­prise. At his blog, he also lists Aussie “web 2.0″ com­pa­nies. Many of these I was aware of, but some of them I wasn’t aware were Aus­tralian. Def­i­nitely encour­ag­ing to see. Brad’s blog is essen­tial read­ing for those want­ing to keep up with the web/​biztechstartup scene in Australia.

Mean­while, a swag of Aussie entre­pre­neurs have a new, startup focussed blog for Fair­fax. Par­tic­i­pants include Tangler’s Mar­tin Wells and Pod­cast Network’s Cameron Reilly (yeah, they are both Aussie based!)

And keep an eye out for our startup focussed events at Web Direc­tions. Any day now.

4 responses to “Web 2.0 downunder”:

1. • By:Business and Web 2.0 in Australia at acidlabs
   • May 16th, 2007

   […] SMH jour­nal­ist Brad Howarth has an inter­est­ing and insight­ful piece on Web 2.0 pen­e­tra­tion in Aus­tralian busi­ness (it’s also been noticed by the folks at Web Direc­tions). It strongly reflects my view that largely it’s small busi­ness that is begin­ning to “get” Web 2.0 here. The big end of town and gov­ern­ment mostly have a fair way to travel before these tech­nolo­gies gain any sig­nif­i­cant pen­e­tra­tion in their oper­a­tions. Frankly, that’s a pity, as adopt­ing the tools of Web 2.0 could be help­ing many of them with the increas­ing issue of good and pro­gres­sive knowl­edge man­age­ment, pro­duc­tiv­ity and stake­holder engagement . […]

2. • By:knowledge is everywhere
   • May 17th, 2007

   A great turnout for Destra and Brad Howarth at The Domain…

   Brad Howarth and Domenic Carosa (CEO of Destra) drew quite a crowd at The Domain net­work­ing event in Mel­bourne, held at Dig­i­tal Har­bour in the Dock­lands. Atten­dees received a music CD from Destra and a copy of Aus­tralian Anthill mag­a­zine (Sub­scribe to …

3. • By:Rob Varghese
   • May 17th, 2007
   

   An inter­est­ing arti­cle John, but the first line of your post “As we put the fin­ish­ing touches on the launch of Web Direc­tions South 2007 due in a cou­ple of days (I think you’ll be very excited withat what’s on offer)” is what inter­ests me the most. I look for­ward with much antic­i­pa­tion to see what you and Max­ine have lined up :)

4. • By:acidlabs » Business and Web 2.0 in Australia
   • July 22nd, 2008

   […] piece on Web 2.0 pen­e­tra­tion in Aus­tralian busi­ness (it’s also been noticed by the folks at Web Direc­tions). It strongly reflects my view that largely it’s small busi­ness that is begin­ning to […]

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