If you want to share an Office document on the web, you will either upload it to a document sharing website (like SlideShare, Scribd or even Google Docs) or, if the content is private, you’ll probably send a copy of the document as an email attachment. Now there’s another neat alternative that you should explore

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Put Your Documents on the Web with Docs.com

When you think of portable digital cameras that can capture both still photographs and HD video, the first products that spring to your mind are pocket camcorders like the Flip and Kodak Zi8 – they are compact like your mobile phone and pretty affordable as well.

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A Digital Camera That’s Very Small and Also Very Affordable

Gizmodo, the popular gadget blog that everyone is now talking about for their iPhone 4G scoop, may have paid a hefty price to buy a non-working prototype of a phone but the site owners may still be having their biggest paydays ever .

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The iPhone May Have Made Gizmodo Richer by $150,000

If you are looking to find the right kind of font /typeface for designing your book, your website logo, for an handwritten invitation letter or a font for annotating an illustration, this flowchart from graphic designer Julian Hansen should come handy. Start from the center of the flowchart, pick the type of your design project – it could be a logo, a book or something else – answer a couple of (sometimes funny) questions and you will quickly discover the most appropriate font family for your project. Julian has considered only the top 100 fonts for her typeface selection chart and you may therefore not find every single font here.

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Choose the Right Font for your Project [Flowchart]

The Greater Taree City Council’s proposed smoke free outdoors policy was given the nod on March 11, 2010 after a three month community consultation was delivered using Engagement HQ.

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Greater Taree City Council smokes out real opinion with online engagement

Way back in November 2008 I posted a list of advantages and disadvantages of online communication draw from Wikiversity . At the time I posted the lists with very little comment. It has since proven to be one of the most consistently popular posts on our blog, so I thought it was about time for a revisit and rethink

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Online Communication (Revisited)

I n the case study highlighting the online community engagement strategy that Greater Taree City Council use d to gather opinion on a “Smoke Free Taree” we wrote that: “The decision to introduce the proposal means that smoking will be banned at all Council facilities, sporting grounds, children’s playgrounds, alfresco dining area, beaches, parks and reserves, at all Council run or sponsored events, public carparks, covered bus stops and taxi ranks.” In fact, the Councils Smoke-Free Area Environment Policy has far more definition and been given greater attention to detail. It follows: Councils Smoke-Free Environment Policy extends to: Within 10 (ten) metres of all children’s playgrounds Within 10 (ten) metres of Council playing fields, sporting grounds and at outdoor sporting facilities On all land used for alfresco dining At all events run or sponsored by Council Within 10 (ten) metres of Council owned building entrances; and At all covered bus stops and taxi ranks The following areas HAVE NOT been included: All ocean and harbour beaches In all bushland, parks, reserves and public plazas In all Council car parks

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Greater Taree City Council case study correction

Thanks to guest poster Anne Bransdon (left) for this great article on how Broken Hill used online engagement to gather community opinion. ” About a year ago, we engaged online consultation software experts, Bang the Table, to consult our community about the fees, activities, infrastructure and day-to-day management of the newly refurbished Regional Aquatic Centre.

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Broken Hill Breaks the Mould with Online Engagement

I had been involved in the world of online community engagement for literally days when I was extracted for a month to re-emerge intensively aware of the how, what, where and the when. Buffed, spick and span, my head full of knowledge and senses tingling with a combination of trepidation and excitement, I thrust myself into the world of EngagementHQ savvy clients

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My new friends ‘notinmybackyard’, ‘bigbloke’, ‘nefertiti’ and ‘radox’

The council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI),at its 292nd meeting held on January 13th 2010, has decided to require members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) to include, in addition other requirements relating to signature on the Audit Report, as prescribed under the relevant Standard on Auditing, the registration number of the firm as allotted by ICAI, in the audit reports signed by them and Ensure that the resolution passed by the company regarding appointment of the statutory auditor of the company under section 224 of the Companies Act, 1956, also contain the registration number of the firm of the auditor(s) with the ICAI with effect from 01st April,2010.

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Firm Regn No: in audit reports from 01.04.2010.

VicRoads has launched an online consultation about the future of Hoddle Street (pictured below) in Melbourne’s east . The State Government has allocated $5 million to commence engineering investigations to determine the feasibility of improvements along Hoddle Street between just north of the M1 (Citylink), up to and including the entrance to the Eastern Freeway.

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Talking about Roads! Hoddle Street Study Consultation Online

Austin City has launched an online climate change discussion. The overarching goal of the Austin Climate Protection Program is to make Austin the leading city in the US in the fight against climate change. In February 2007, the City Council passed a resolution that directed the City to begin taking action to respond to climate change.

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Austin City talks climate change

Warrigah Council on Sydney’s northern beaches has just launched an online conversation about its Draft Community Management Plan . The Strategic Community Plan is the annual planning document for Warringah and contains a ten year strategic direction and financial forecast including: Proposed operational budget 2010-2011 Proposed budget and service delivery for 2010-2014 Proposed Fees and Charges for 2010-2011 Council have asked the community to think about the main issues confronting the area over the next ten years; anything that might be changed in plan; what are the strengths and weaknesses of the draft plan; and finally, what services would people be prepared to see reduced in order to maintain Council’s financial strength

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Community Planning in Warringah

Internet Use By Australian Residents From Non English Speaking Backgrounds View more presentations from Bang the Table . When I am talking with government agencies around Australia it is not uncommon for questions to come up about the suitability of online methods for engaging with new migrant communities and people from non-English speaking backgrounds. The concern is that online systems might be exclusionary

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Online Community Engagement and Migrant Communities

Willoughby City Council in Sydney’s north has this afternoon launched an online discussion about its draft Smoke Free Environment Policy . This is the third such online consultation we have seen recently, with Bega Valley Shire having a similar conversation right now , and Greater Taree having hosted a similar discussion up until a couple of weeks ago . The objectives of Willoughby City Council in banning smoking in various Council areas is to: Improve the health of community members; Improve public amenity and maintenance of Council property; Raise community awareness of the issues associated with smoking; Provide community leadership in taking measures to protect the health and social wellbeing of the community; and Minimise cigarette butt pollution on Council owned beaches, waterways, parks and other open space areas

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Lighting up in Willoughby?

Greater Taree City Council on the New South Wales mid north coast has this morning launched an online discussion and participatory budget . Council has asked the community to talk about upsides and downsides of a special rates levy increase to fund a long list of infrastructure projects.

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Taree talking about participatory budgeting and rates pegging

We wanted to explore the backwaters of Kerala so we asked the tourist guys outside the ship and they made arrangements for us to meet this guy in Ernakulam. I really didn’t want to do something with a tour guide, but we had such little time and no idea how to get to the … Allan lived in India growing up and then Dubai for a few years, then the UK with his brother for a few months, and just recently came back to India to work for his brother’s tourism business

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Micha at Sea: My taste of India

There are several situations in which assessee relying on the advise of his tax consultant or auditor decides not to pay tax. However, after sometime by an amendement in the Act or subsequent court decisions , tax liability is confirmed and this leads to considerable headache not only to tax payer bu to consultants as well.

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whether penalty attracted, if tax payer relied on the advise of his consultant/ auditor.

Here at least they go out, some even work . I have only ever seen the woman from the Muslim household up our lane twice outside the house – once with her husband on their bike and once with another woman buying from a street vendor.

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ashramblings – or the story of Sheila's sojourn in India: A …

A similar opinion is voiced by a contemporary western philosopher dealing with Indian philosophical texts, when asked to opine about the work of Sri Aurobindo. We find this, for example, in Peter Heehs biography The Lives of Sri Aurobindo, … from within and outside India ; but I shall not enquire into the nature and cause of the circumstances responsible for this growing volume of suspicion.

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Can Indian Philosophy Be Written in English? By Nalini Bhushan …