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April was a record month for the Agency website I manage. We’ve been on an uptrend for awhile, but this month saw the traffic (measured in visits and unique visitors) jump north to an extent I did not anticipate. It’s definitely a nice surprise and gratifying to be able to claim that the website is…
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Jane McConnell of NetStrategy jmc has released the Global Intranet Trends for 2009 report. As one of the participants in the survey, my agency received the report last week. I personally found the report provided an excellent insight into current intranet best practice and the shared challenges of intranet managers around the world. It’s worth…
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This is a guest post from Jayden Castillo, a colleague of mine at Accenture and an active member of Canberra’s innovation community. Read the original post at LinkedIn: I recently attended the Australian Trucking Association (ATA)’s Hackathon aiming to target driver fatigue, aptly named ‘FatigueHack’. I’m fairly new to Hackathons, this was my second after…
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Over the last few years I’ve often thought about the value of having a complete picture of web traffic to the Australian government. This would require a common way to track and report on the usage of each discrete government website and the ability to track and measure the traffic between them over time (using…
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