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• Reed / Write Culture? 15.03.10

  

  Admit it. Does scrawling away on a notepad or bashing away madly at a keyboard give you a little shiver of happiness? Can you appreciate the understated power of a single word? Have you been harbouring a desire to work at the ABC? Whoops! You've just stumbled on the opportunity you've been waiting for.

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• Pool Featured Contributor: Sean McKenna 11.03.10

  

  Sean McKenna is perhaps better known on Pool as Kinchdedalus. Sean has shared some fantastic images and videos over the last year or so. In fact he's been such an active member of the Pool community that we thought we just had to find out a bit more about him!

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• Open wide, come inside, it's the ABC on Twitter! 08.03.10

  

  If you're not on Twitter, then you should be. Forget arguments that it is overrated, self indulgent and destroying the English language. If txt msges hvnt destroyed English grammar by now, then Twitter has no chance. It is merely a really simple conversation tool.

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• Featured Contributor Deidre Tronson 11.03.10

  

  Deidre Tronson - or d. as she's also known - is one of the most loyal members of the Pool community! Over the last few years d. has regularly been sharing her written stories and poems with us Poolies.

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• Talking about community 01.03.10

  

  As part of our ongoing social media experiment we're developing a new hybrid role of editor, curator and moderator as an extension of the usual contributor role. This is the "Mod Bod" as we have affectionately titled it.

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• Visitors' voices 23.02.10

  

  Pool visitors can now add comments without logging in. We hope this small but significant change will make it easier to grow Pool conversations.

  There are a couple of thousand registered Pool community members but we get many hundreds of anonymous visitors every day stopping by to have a look. It seemed a bit restrictive not to allow them to comment.
  

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• Delight not fright for 2010 17.02.10

  

  Millie Rooney was one of the contributors chosen to speak at the Hope 2010 event and she enthused the crowd with her aim for 2010 to be a year of “delight, not fright”, a topic she is exploring in her PhD. We asked her to share her experience of the event.
   

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• ABC Open to YOU 12.02.10

  

  ABC launches a new regional online social media project and is offering jobs as well as social media access, ABC Open

  For more than 75 years the ABC has been connecting local communities through regional radio. Now we're embarking on an ambitious initiative to interact with and engage our audience online.
  

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