Last week I read a book called ‘The Resilience Project’ by Hugh van Cuylenburg. Craig Burton brought the book to my attention and lent me his copy (thanks Craig, it’s mine now – haha). The Port Adelaide Football Club use ‘The Resilience Project’ as part of their player wellbeing programs. Indeed, the program has been…
UPark Cost Estimator
This one was difficult! This new tool provides a cost estimate for customers who wish to park at UPark on a casual basis. For example, if I enter UPark Grote St at 8.30am on Monday and then leave at 4.45pm on Friday, how much will it cost me? The algorithm that Halton Stewart has built…
Popeye article on Adelaide Living
I’ve just published a new article on Adelaide Living about our ride on Popeye. https://living.cityofadelaide.com.au/adelaides-popeye-boats-heritage-icon-and-childhood-memories/
70+ trails in our Adelaide Trails and Guides collection
We’ve released a collection of city trails and guides. There’s no better time to get out and about in your own backyard. We’re inspiring local exploration of Adelaide with a collection of 70+ city trails and guides that are available online at https://explore.cityofadelaide.com.au/see-and-do/adelaide-trails-guides/. Whether you’d like to check out North Adelaide’s highly-acclaimed Musée Extérieur on…
Staycation dynamic pages with offers
This week we spent some time building out a series of dynamically-driven Staycation offers pages, powered by the Australian Tourism Data Warehouse database. We were able to turn these around in quick time with the help of Blis. These pages replaced a set of manually maintained pages – the new pages are much less labour…
Stobie Pole story on Adelaide Living
I wrote a story about stobie poles on Adelaide Living. The first stobies were erected on South Terrace back in 1924. Despite being an enduring solution for power poles in SA, they haven’t caught on elsewhere. https://living.cityofadelaide.com.au/stobie-pole-adelaide-icon-or-eyesore/
Smart City section on City of Adelaide website
We’ve taken a new section live on the City of Adelaide website – Smart City Adelaide. You can see it here: https://www.cityofadelaide.com.au/about-adelaide/smart-city-adelaide/ The section contains information about all our smart city initiatives, including projects that I have been heading up: chatbot, voice assistant and virtual tours
Pitching to be the ICF’s ‘intelligent community of the year’
We’ve spent the last two days pitching to be the ‘intelligence community of the year’.
Minecraft presentation to Intelligent Communities Forum
Today I delivered a ten-minute presentation about our Minecraft project to the Intelligent Communities Forum Adelaide pitch. I was supported by Josh Roberts who drove Minecraft, while I did the speaking. Here’s the narrative: Hello again gentlemen. My name is Clayton and I’ve got a colleague Josh helping me today with the presentation. He’s driving…
Adelaide Virtual Tour presentation to Intelligent Communities Forum
Today I delivered a ten-minute presentation about our virtual tours for the Intelligent Communities Forum Adelaide pitch. Our virtual tours can be found at: https://www.cityofadelaide.com.au/about-adelaide/smart-city-adelaide/virtual-tours-drones/ Here’s my narrative: G’day ladies and gentlemen My name is Clayton and today I’m going to take you on a quick virtual tour of Adelaide, my favourite city in the…
Interviewed about public service announcement videos on The Shootsta Show
I was interviewed by Mel de Coster and Luke Walker about ‘public service announcement’ videos on The Shootsta Show. You can see the video here: https://shootsta.com/tss-s3-ep1-recording-the-future-of-public-service-announcements-is-video-2-september-2020
Victoria Square in Minecraft
David Cubic continues to use the Adelaide 2021 Minecraft world to build the city. A vision for Victoria Square is his latest creation, after the fantastic work he did on the Adelaide Town Hall interior and exterior.
Stackla webinar: How Marketers are Powering Their COVID-19 Response & Recovery with UGC
I recently spoke on a Stackla webinar about how the City of Adelaide responded digitally to the COVID-19 crisis, along with Damien Mahoney from Stackla and Tyra Gunnis from Michael Hill Jewellers.
Use Google Assistant to get answers on parking spaces and bin day in Adelaide
We’ve been doing a bit of work to incorporate a number of council information services into Google Assistant. You can now use Google Assistant to: Find out how many spaces are available at our nine city UParks Find out which is the closest UPark to park at Find out when your bin day is We…
Adelaide Living podcast in SA Life magazine – the digital edition
The Adelaide Living podcast was recently covered in an SA Life article. They have now released the digital version of that article:
Accessibility of the City of Adelaide website
As a government entity, we need to give close attention to the ‘accessibility’ of our websites. This ensures that the content of our websites can be consumer by people who have a visual impairment. We’re held to an international standard known as the Web Content Accessibility Guidlines (WCAG). We’ve been doing some work recently to…
Nostalgia sells – The Cargo Club on Hindley Street
Nostalgia sells. This article has attracted a huge audience (2.7K+ page views) over the past couple of days on Adelaide Living. Written by UniSA student Faye Couros, via our collaboration with the uni, the article reminisces about The Cargo Club which operated on Hindley Street from 1988 to 1999. https://living.cityofadelaide.com.au/cargo-club-profile/ Look at that trendline!
Minecraft Town Hall continues to take shape
Our Town Hall Minecrafter is continuing his work – the facade is coming together nicely! Update as at 13 July…it’s nearing completion.
The Art in Adelaide online database
Still working on this one. There are 48 art pieces that are currently ‘live’ in the database. We’ve just imported data for the remaining 170 art pieces and the Public Art team is going to be busy adding the photography and descriptions over coming months. Visit: https://explore.cityofadelaide.com.au/see-and-do/arts-entertainment/art-in-adelaide/
The SCARF Model
These are the common factors that can activate a reward or threat response in human beings – status, certainty, autonomy, relatedness and fairness. A good model