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webqem are proud to be a member of the Australian Human Resources Institute, the national association for human resource  and people management professionals. AHRI has more than 60 years experience in providing specialist education, professional development and training.

This membership gives us  access to the latest people management knowledge, and comprehensive, current and relevant HR expertise.  Combined with our experience and in depth knowledge of digital media, this helps us stay on top of our game and help you to find your online solution.

We are looking forward to further relations with AHRI.

webqem launched the new LUMIX Life: Focus on Australia website two weeks ago and submissions are already up over 1200 photos with 2 ½ months to go!

The purpose of the competition is to enter photos that have been taken with a LUMIX camera across Australia in the hopes that your photo will be selected to be in a book entitled Focus on Australia alongside other professional Australia photographers. There is also the chance to win one of three LUMIX GF-1 cameras

So pick up your LUMIX and start snapping some shots for your chance to win!

Fantastic 16 min video from TED earlier in 2009 here.

Working in the internet space means sometimes new ideas, technologies, paradigms creep upon us bit by bit and, while we ‘get it’, sometimes it can be helpful to step right back and put things in context.

This talk certainly does that, placing SM within the context of the history of human communication and punching home its significance…

http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_cellphones_twitter_facebook_can_make_history.html

This year webqem’s network engineer Derek Read and his wife are taking part in the Leukaemia Foundation’s World’s Greatest Shave. (Derek is going Kojak and Marianne is going for the coloured set). It’s easy to take part – simply ask family, friends or workmates to sponsor you, then shave (or colour) your hair in March.

Every hour of every day, at least one person in Australia is diagnosed with leukaemia, lymphoma or myeloma.
Every two hours, someone loses their life to blood cancer.

Please help Derek and Marianne raise as much as they can for the Leukaemia Foundation. Their vital work provides patients with practical support during their long and tough treatment, as well as funding important research.

You can help by making a secure online donation using your credit card at their profile page.

True Green Kids … 100 Things You Can Do to Save the Planet by Kim McKay and Jenny Bonnin, has won the award for Best Hands On Science Book at the AAAS/Subaru SB&F Excellence in Science Books awards, celebrating outstanding science writing and illustration for children and young adults.

The award will be presented in Chicago on Friday 13th February. It is one of four book prizes awarded by the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), the publisher of Science Magazine, and the SB&F (Science Books and Films).

True Green is an international environmental brand which aims to empower the everyday person to make a difference. The authors are part of the Clean up Australia/Clean up the World team (Kim is cofounder and Jenny is a board member). Kim and Jenny have written four True Green books, all about providing simple and useful actions you can take to change your behavior, presenting the tips in a very accessible way.

The True Green Kids book was launched in Australia by Environment Minister Peter Garrett last April and covers 100 points, from the obvious (use cloth bags and turn down the heat), to the creative and fun (set up a local carbon trading card system or help organize a ‘trash’ free lunch day at school).

webqem worked with the authors to produce the True Green @ Work E-Learning Program, using Adobe Flash and Adobe Presenter.

http://usc.edu.au/University/MediaPublications/News/MoreNews/GayleBeijing.htm

University of the Sunshine Coast business lecturer Gayle Mayes used Adobe Connect to bring the Beijing Olympics into her classroom.

Ms Mayes spent two weeks in Beijing for the Olympic Games, and organised live video links with her Sport and Event Marketing classes during their scheduled lecture times, covering the sports marketing topics discussed in her University classes.

Issues included ticket prices, politics and sport, drugs in sport, security, the cultural, economic, political and environmental impacts of mega events, and the challenges of marketing and managing an international event in China.

Ms Mayes uses experiential education as her main teaching strategy. This approach last year earned her a $10,000 grant from the Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education.

A few of us have decided to get involved in this great event, by growing a mo for the month of November. Movember aims to raise awareness about male health issues, in particular prostate cancer and male depression, by encouraging guys to let their mo’s grow for a month. We’ll keep you updated on our progress, a few radical concepts for individual mo’s have been thrown around but let’s let the mo’s do the talking!

Movember donations are tax deductible and can be made at http://www.movember.com.au/ or 1300 GROW MO.

Go the mo!

Ikea has launched a fun new mini-site to promote their wardrobes. Like a remarkable kitchen mini-site they had created earlier which rotated through different kitchen scenes frozen in time, this new site is another engaging experience built in Flash.

A set of five well-appointed rooms, stacked one on top of each other, are visited by choosing levels from a set of elevator buttons, giving you a voyeur’s view of rooms as you pass up and down on your way to your destination.

The site makes good use of Flash video with people coming and going into the rooms, leading the viewer into the features currently being displayed.

IKEA: Kom In I Garderoben

Google Map’s addition of street mapping for Australia on Friday didn’t go unnoticed, it inspired us to add a dynamic location map to the contact section of our site.

The launch itself was unofficial, features like searching and driving directions are yet to come, rest assured we’ll add those features once they’re available…

Discover your location on Google Maps.

Nice interface, interesting photographer… Karl De Keyzer photography