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    The blog of Nathanael Boehm, UX/IxD web designer and developer currently employed by the Australian Government and doing freelance work, co-coordinator of the Free Australia Wireless project, unorganiser of BarCampCanberra, online community manager and front-end developer for OpenAustralia, an active member in the web industry with an interest in all things 2.0 - including eGovernment, social media and networking and citizen journalism.

    Main skills are with HTML, CSS and JavaScript with a focus on usability, UCD and accessibility - experienced in PHP/MySQL and C#/MSSQL development, e-Learning, information architecture, systems architecture, technical lead, contract negotiation, vendor management, risk management and search engine optimisation.

    Musician (drums, bass guitar, keyboards and synths) and photographer.

    Meyers-Briggs personality type: INTJ.

    Signal Patterns:
    Personality: Curious, Conscientious, and Prudent.
    Musical: Electrical, Percussive, and Distorted.

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Another bad implementation of Twitter for corporate social media

Posted by Nathanael Boehm on September 30th, 2008 in Conversation and Collaboration, General, Social Networks, User Experience

BigPond Team doing bad things with their implementation of Twitter as a social media communication channel.

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Rights to blog and the Australian Olympic Committee

Posted by Nathanael Boehm on June 11th, 2008 in Conversation and Collaboration, General, Rights and Censorship, Social Networks

The indignation of the suppression of freedom that you can’t even say “Well done Team Member 1″ on your own personal blog.

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What I’m *really* interested in is conversation

Posted by Nathanael Boehm on June 3rd, 2008 in Conversation and Collaboration, General, Social Networks

I’m the kind of guy who wants reciprocity in his social networks and particularly Twitter.

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New Twitter account: NathanaelB

Posted by Nathanael Boehm on May 12th, 2008 in General, Social Networks

I was planning on just purging my @pureCaffeine account and unprotecting it - but lost interest in that for now, so I’ve created a new account @NathanaelB which will replace my old account (with it’s 10,800 tweets) and will be public. Which means less spontaneity and less quantity of tweets - which means turning my […]

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Watering your network

Posted by Nathanael Boehm on May 5th, 2008 in General, Social Networks

We have this running joke at work about “watering” friendships - effectively the activity of maintaining a friendship with a person by frequent contact, regardless of how meaningful, frivolous, brief or length those conversations are.
Read a few posts about Twitter today - one by Stephen, one by Mark - and got me thinking about how […]

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