January 2010

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January 25, 2010
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Jeremy goes to DrupalSouth Wellington

  • Jeremy goes to DrupalSouth Wellington
  • Jeremy goes to DrupalSouth Wellington

I’m sitting right now in the main presentation room here at DrupalSouth Wellington January 2010, the second ever Kiwi Drupal conference. This is my second time representing Digital Eskimo at a Drupal event (previous one being DrupalCon DC last year), and my third Drupal conference. I was super-excited to be attending the first-ever Drupal event in Australasia to feature international guest speakers. After a full weekend of presentations, hack jams, mingling, and beverage guzzling (in no particular order), things are just about to wrap up.

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David Gravina
January 21, 2010
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live local nominated for two AIMIA Awards

  • live local nominated for two AIMIA Awards

We’re thrilled to announce that the online presence of the live local project has been listed as a finalist in the 16th AIMIA Awards.

The site has been nominated in both the Best Non-profit or Government and Best Science, Health or Environment categories.

The AIMIA Awards are Australia’s longest running and most prestigious Interactive Media awards and it’s fantastic to be recognised for our work on a low budget not-for-profit project such as live local.

Big ups to Piers Dawson-Damer who had the vision and courage to invest in the project. Also the project team here at Digital Eskimo; John Macfarlane, Jeremy Epstein, Chris Gaul and everyone in the project team for all their hard work. I should also thank all of the live local community who are what it’s all about in the end.  (We haven’t won yet so I’ll hold off continuing the acceptance speech until the awards night perhaps!)

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Sally Robertson
January 13, 2010
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Tweeting the live local challenge

  • Tweeting the live local challenge

Local living, global communications

In March 2009 we had just completed live local, an ambitious project which aimed to inspire people to improve their communities by experimenting with new ideas and sharing their stories. With the launch of the live local website fast approaching we needed an online strategy that would enable us to reach a broad audience without much of a media budget and few internal resources.

We decided to challenge two established bloggers, Kate Carruthers and Rebecca Varidel, who collectively have well over 30,000 twitter followers, to ‘live local’ for a week and to document their experiences on Twitter. The subsequent tweets created a fun, authentic real-time story that Kate and Rebecca’s community could  share with the blogger and created a buzz around live local that gathered steady momentum in the lead up to the launch of the site.

Read the full article by John Macfarlane, the Experience Architect on the project.

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January 7, 2010

All Things Considered

  • All Things Considered

(Image courtesy of uBookworm)

If you hang out for any amount of time at the Digital Eskimo studio, you’ll discover that the people who work here are interested in a fascinating array of things.

Have a seat on the couch and chat to someone and you may end up talking about iPhone apps, British comedy, Drupal conferences, Australian indie bands, cultural theory, motorbikes, zombies, or something that I’ve somehow left off that comprehensive list.

Those numerous interests often serve as the inspiration for cool ideas that emerge from Digital Eskimo. But this website divulges very little about the quirks and affections of Digital Eskimo’s staff, save for the fleeting glimpse provided by our compelling, eloquent biographies. Until now.

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