Connections

Bring people together with digital media

Skype makes video calls simple and cheap - even for groups.

We’re moving far beyond the time when a community is bound by geography. Is there some way you could use broadband and video to reach out to and engage people remotely with your activities?

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Meetups and get togethers – the Meetup website helps arrange them

The Meetup website.

The Meetup website helps groups organise get-togethers. Their mission is to revitalise local community. It’s worth a look.

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Wellington free wi-fi

Wellington waterfront.

Free wi-fi for downtown Wellington could be real soon.

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Kiwis get broadband

Network.

The number of New Zealand homes using broadband to connect to the Internet has doubled in the last 3 years. 80% of the total population use the Internet.

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Pointless babble or dismissive snobbery?

Twitter is not a platform for great rhetoric. It’s not the place for life-altering pronouncements. It’s not some kind of holy book, being written 140 characters at a time. Twitter’s a place where groups of friends and acquaintances chat.

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Because of the connections

Over on the most excellent Wise Women mailing list someone was asking about blogs — what’s the point, why do people do it? It sounds like a lot of clutter taking up space on the web This was my response: Well, one woman’s clutter is another woman’s treasure… I like to blog because there’s a [...]

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