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News alert: NCA’s Data Privacy Week webinars highlight data protection for consumers, businesses

The Last Watchdog

Throughout the week, NCA will emphasize the critical significance of digital privacy for both consumers and businesses through a series of educational webinars featuring experts from various industries. “Knowing how to safeguard your personal information has never been more important than it is today.

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Australasian Virtual Worlds Workshop 2008 - November 28/29

ChiefTech

At the end of the month, Swinburne University is hosting the Australasian Virtual Worlds Workshop 2008 : “ The Australasian Virtual Worlds Workshop is an event for Australasian researchers, educators and business people involved in virtual worlds, to meet and discuss topics related to virtual worlds.

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Day two at OSNBC 2008

ChiefTech

innovators from the speakers line up, Phillip Bower from Centrelink and Dheeraj Chowdhury from the NSW Department of Education (see below). During 2007 the held a forum in Second Life to gather feedback on how they might use the space and in April 2008 they held a virtual youth forum to celebrate Youth Week.

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Day one at OSNBC 2008

ChiefTech

Some of his tips include: Start simple; Remove any disincentives and make sure you have the right incentives to participate; Expect to fail - label everything as a ‘beta'; Use working groups to help guide future development of the tools; and Don't stop evangelising, encouraging and educating. That's enough about day 1.

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IDEA 2008: An Interview with Andrew Hinton

ChiefTech

As IDEA 2008 draws closer, the IA Institute is conducting a series of interviews with the speakers for the conference. As Event Coordinator for IDEA , I fill a variety of roles, including the Interviewer of IDEA Presenters (which I proudly share with Liz Danzico). RU: How did you get your start in Interaction/Information Design?

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Spotlight: National Women’s Conference of 1977

Unwritten Record

Record Group: 220 Records of Temporary Committees, Commissions, and Boards, 1893-2008 Series: WC Photographs Used to Illustrate the Report, “Spirit of Houston: The first National Women’s Converence”, 1977-1978. Bella Abzug, Betty Freidan and Billie Jean King accompany torch relay runners into Houston. 220-WC-30-H.

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Information Architecture for Audio: Doing It Right - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design

ChiefTech

Boxes And Arrows : The Design Behind the Design Register or Log In Search Stories Ideas Forums People Events Jobs About December Issue, 2008 Jens Jacobsen 32 Reputation points Jens likes writing for multimedia and loves tracking down usability issues. He founded the company “ Content Crew ” in 2006, and is its CEO since this time.