These is my log of professional, political and sometimes personal thoughts and observations. I am Bettina Walter, a Senior Information Architect (IA), Interaction Designer and Usability Professional.
I am co-owner of PunkLogic.
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This letter was handed out to parents at our primary school.
My daughter had taken these tests Anna Bligh refers to last year. She did very well and the teacher had skilfully protected the children as much as she could from the stress it could have potentially injected. This was the teacher’s achievement, and I was [...]
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Originally uploaded by Barack Obama
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I’m hooked.
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The quality, functionality and sophistication of Obama’s website and Clinton’s website blow me away. The blogs, the shops, the features, the use of social computing… – both candidates are doing well and setting very high standards. The attention to detail especially with Obama’s online campaign are astounding – check the well design, coherent, custom made [...]
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So it turns out I have been elected for the Noosa Creative Community Leadership Program – a 12 month project including a two day seminar with Richard Florida’s Creative Class Group.
From the Commitment Letter:
The purpose of the Noosa Creative Community Leadership Project is to empower you and 29 other leaders to work together and [...]
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PS: Enrique Peñalosa is speaking in Brisbane on the 7th of February. The event is booked out. If you are attending or know of any reports, pictures or notes from it afterwards – please drop me line. Thanks.
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KEEN – Big Bob and Joe Natoli show down
This was a good night (sorry not such a good photo) at Noosa Gallery – a meeting of Noosa’s Knowledge Entrepreneurs to pick the brains of the mayoral candidates for the post-amalgamation Noosa-Maroochydore-Caloundra Super Shire.
Coinciding with this I came across Enrique Peñalosa – former mayor of Bogota, [...]
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Mark Stockwell, Sarah, Bob Abott and Richard Florida
‘Knowledge and Creativity’ was held at the J., Noosa Junction, on 23/Nov/2007
I attended out of curiosity to check out what the ‘Noosa Creative Alliance’ is all about. After all:
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing [...]
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