April CPD event cancelled

Due to low attendance numbers, this event at the University of Qld has been cancelled.

Next event coming in May!

Delay in production of Qld Legislation bound volumes 2009

Helen Gambley reports that there has been a delay in the production of the 2009 Queensland Acts As Passed Bound volumes.

Due to Franklin Book Binders closing down, SDS Publications have had to find new binders so it has taken longer than usual.

They should hopefully be with everyone within the next 4 to 5 days.

April CPD event - an update on Web 2.0 tools

Looking forward to the ALLAQ April CPD event - an update on Web 2.0 tools

RSS feeds, blogs, wikis, twitter, podcasts.

Date: 29th April

Time: 5-6pm

Where: Social Sciences & Humanities Library (UQ)Travel:

City Cat leaves from the Riverside Centre at 4.09pm or 4.22pm.

This is a link to the UQ Social Sciences Library so that you can find your way. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/ssah/#location

Following the session we can adjourn to the Pizza Cafe for drinks and pizza at your own expense.

Please RSVP to allaq.cpd@gmail.com by the 27th April 2010.

This event is open to all ALLAQ members.

Twitter archives

Google announces that they are already online with a searchable version of the new Twitter archive. As of today, the Google’s Twitter archive only goes back a few months to February, 2010 but “eventually” the entire archive back to day one would be available and searchable.

See article - The Twitter Archives from the Library of Congress & Google: The Facts As We Know Them

Govt agencies move on social media policy

Federal Government departments have revealed they are moving ahead to implement social media policies, despite the government having not yet responded to recommendations in the Government 2.0 Taskforce report.

see full article

Report from Berkeley School of Law comparing Information Privacy Attitudes amongst Young Adults and Older Adults

Information Privacy Attitudes and Policies, How Different are Young Adults from Older Adults

Many commentators claim that young people “are less concerned with maintaining privacy than older people are.” Surprisingly, though, few empirical investigations have explored the privacy attitudes of young adults. This report is among the first quantitative studies evaluating young adults’ attitudes. It demonstrates that the picture is more nuanced than portrayed in the popular media.

A gap in privacy knowledge provides one explanation for the apparent license with which the young behave online.