Mark started it by asking, “What’s the Perth equivalent of Melbournite or Sydneysider? Would it be Perthian? Perthan?” Several dictionaries later, and after consulting her relations, WA-raised Sally replied, “Perthite.”
But it was too late. “Perthian” had already entered Mark’s personal lexicon.
As the project progresses, we have captured interesting or silly words and phrases on our [...]
We celebrated a project milestone at work this week. At yesterday’s meeting of Academic Board, the Vice-Chancellor tabled “Scholarly Information in a Digital Age: choices for the University of Melbourne.”
This consultation paper outlines:
changes in society and scholarly practice that affect how we value and manage our scholarly information
the history, size and resourcing of our current [...]
About a week ago, I was suddenly seconded to work on a new project. There was a half-hour meeting with my boss, Donna, and her boss, Linda. And voila, I walked out of the meeting with a new job.
In project management terms, this is a high-impact project. Many people, within and outside the organisation, have [...]
Before starting a web redevelopment project, you need to be able to answer questions like these:
Which pages or subsites are important enough to warrant immediate attention?
What, specifically, is wrong with those pages? (Consider both the organisation’s perspective and the end-user’s perspective — they may not match!)
What problems can be fixed at minimal cost to the [...]
