Resources
Resources pages for all things useful and relevant to our work, including professional, inspirational and peripheral.
Resources
Conference presentations
Laughing Mind
- CISA- CommunIT, 1-2 May 2006: Changing your world with technology- The digital means to the Social End: CMS selection in the Not-For-Profit sector- A situation and options assessment PDF file, 0.9MB
Notable reference conferences and presentations
- Enterprise2.0: Enterprise 2.0-Efficient Collaboration and Knowledge Exchange
- Thomas Vanderwal: Bottom-up all the way down. How Tags help businesses organise
- Scott Gavin: Meet Charlie-What is Enterprise2.0?; Charlie goes mobile with Enterprise 2.0
Social Media, Online Communities for NGOs and Business
Social media strategy, community engagement and growth
Forum Platform Comparisons
- Forum Matrix: http://www.forummatrix.org/
- Forum Software Reviews: http://www.forum-software.org/forum-reviews
- DIA: The Design Institute of Australia
- GRI: The Global Reporting Initiative
- Health-e-directory: Online and printed eHealth provider directory for Australian Health ICT firms
- HFES: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society- USA
- HFESA: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society- Australia
- ISACA: Information Systems Audit and Control Association
- OGC: Office of Government Commerce, UK
- RMIT-Global sustainability: RMITs centre for global sustainability
- RMI: Rocky Mountain Institute
- WBCSD: World Business Council for Sustainable Development
- The IHS: The Insititute for Humane Studies
- Environment Business Australia: An Australian based think tank for sustainable business enterprises providing commercial solutions
- CHIK: For monitoring the pulse of Australian eHealth activity
- GMT consulting group: For selection of good people, fast.
- Atlassian: For leading edge enterprise Wikis, Issue management, SDLC innovation and Agile Project delivery platforms, fresh from Oz
- ISACA
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- CoBIT: Information Systems Audit and Control Association IT governance framework, freely available. Stands for Control Objectives for Information Technology
- ValIT Business Case: a part of the overall suite of tools for Value Management of ICT
- PRINCE2: PRINCE2 Project management methodology
- CSS and Accessibility standards: For quick CSS and accessibility references
- OGC Successful delivery toolkit: Office of Government Commerce, UK
- AGIMO (Australian Government Information Management Office):
- Plone: the leading Open Source Content Management System for all seasons and reasons
- Host-Tracker: useful little uptime and website performance verifier
- Business Process Trends (BPtrends): Provides a primary source of news and information relating to all aspects of business process change, focused on trends, directions and best practices
- Lombardi Blueprint: Lombardi software approach to BPM represents a very interesting use of the Atlassian Confluence product in a targeted approach to BPM
- UK Institute of Operations Management
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- Comparison of Lean and Six Sigma approaches in the UK NHS: Whilst healthcare focused, a useful comparison article of both approaches in practice.
- American Productivity and Quality Centre (APQC): For their well iterated Business Process Classification framework.
- Lean Your Company: For a good blend of Six Sigma and Lean techniques.
- SixSigmaFirst: Whilst Six Sigma focused, it's also a good reference for other Operations management techniques
- Australian Small Scale Offerings Board (ASSOB): providing a platform for direct investment into unlisted companies to fund their growth and expansion
- EcoDirectory: Australia's guide to being green. Useful.
- ACF: Australian Conservation Foundation:
- A List Apart: Advocates for clean, fast simple designs for the web and thought leaders for the web design community
- Apple Computer: Thought leaders in user interface development since the original Macintosh.
- Assai: Architectural solutions for Asia Pacific, culturally driven
- Ark Workspace: Displaying innovation and creativity in virtual office developments.
- Blogger: For cost free self service, easy publishing online..
- Bungendore Woodworks Gallery: An amazing collection of affordable, contemporary and unique design in the worlds most sustainable medium
- Freshly squeezed software: Squeezing talent from their brains to create some fine, fine software..
- Interaction Design Association: Applying a bunsen burner to the talent test tube for interdisciplinary interaction design- in, above+ beyond the online medium
- Maya.com: A soothing balm for complexity and chaos, with a trail of breadcrumbs left behind them..
- uxnet:User eXperience NETwork: Bridging pools of knowledge to help create a foundation for better user experiences
- Zoo: Friendly people, innovative workplace, agile methods.
- Spirit Rock: For vipassana 101 and insights on looking inwards, looking outwards.
- Worldchanging: The tools, models and ideas for building a better future lie all around us..
- CommunIT: Spreading the word of socially engaged ICT initiatives
- Chiara Fox: For a useful set of tips on Content Auditing for website revamps and redevelopment
- Corporate Punk: for leading edge thinking on Enterprise2.0, with implementation experience.
- Greg Bourne, president of WWF, and ex-head of BP (British Petroleum): Transcript of his 2005 Hawke lecture on why Australia must become a world leader in sustainability best practice, without delay. Thought provoking.
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Tools we use regularly and recommend
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Applications and Monitors
Business Operations Management
Sustainable Business
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