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
Farewell video for Liz – Stay by Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons
We pulled together a farewell video for Liz. Kudos to Hayden L for the production work.
Stackla event support for #ADL40under40
We created a number of big screen event widgets for the #ADL40under40 event at the Adelaide Town Hall last night.
Happy 1st birthday, City of Adelaide website
Launched on 27 June 2019, the City of Adelaide is now 1! Liz cooked an awesome baked cheesecake and threw a surprise party.
New chatbot & voice assistant page on City of Adelaide website
I’ve produced a new page that explains our chatbot and voice assistant project. https://www.cityofadelaide.com.au/about-adelaide/smart-city-adelaide/ai-chatbot-voice-assistant/
Eye in the sky
Our man Hayden went above and beyond today. At the top of a cherry picker in Victoria Square to take some nice photos in the pouring rain. Thankfully the weather cleared a bit, but now poor Hayden has vertigo…hang in there buddy. All captured on our Vic Square webcam: https://explore.cityofadelaide.com.au/webcams/town-hall-south/
Adelaide Living Leaderboard
Below are the top 25 articles on Adelaide Living, by Page Views, since the ‘new’ AL platform went live in August 2019. Content queen Georgie S takes out the top spot, with her ANZAC biscuit recipe taking the cake (or the biscuit?). Overall, AL has had 72K users and over 124K page views since August 2019.
UniSA students share the stories of the city in a content collaboration with City of Adelaide
In addition to our content collab with Wakefield Press, we’ve also entered into a collab with UniSA, too. Back in 2019, Jeanmay H got in touch with Dr Ben Stubbs at University of SA. Ben is the author of ‘The Croweaters’, a book of stories about South Australia (it’s a great read BTW), and he’s…
City of Adelaide content collab with Wakefield Press
We’ve been working with Wakefield Press on a little content collaboration for our online storytelling platform, Adelaide Living. Wakefield Press is a proudly South Australian-owned and operated independent book publisher, based in Adelaide. Many of their publications are inspired by Adelaide local identities, events and places, which makes them a great fit for Adelaide Living. Since…
The Adelaide Town Hall…in Minecraft
Twitter user David Cubic tweeted his Minecraft creation over the weekend. Inspired by the ‘Adelaide 2021’ world, he’s built the Adelaide Town Hall in its full grandeur. He’s also built the pipe organ on the inside…will try and get some screenshots for a future post.
Daniel Goleman’s 12 emotional intelligence traits
The best leaders exercise emotional intelligence. The ‘father’ of emotional intelligence, Daniel Goleman, identifies these 12 traits of the best leaders: Emotional self-awareness: knowing your strengths and limitations Emotional self-control: calmness under pressure and ability to recover quickly from upsets Adaptability: agility in the face of change and uncertainty Achievement orientation: desire to strive for…
UGC for background images on City of Adelaide website
We like to use user-generated content (UGC) for our website home page backgrounds. This one has just gone up on the Explore Adelaide home page. A misty winter morning in the Adelaide Park Lands. Photo credit to Ben Campbell. https://explore.cityofadelaide.com.au/
Final three episodes of our inaugural Adelaide Living podcast series
We’re now down to the final three episodes in our inaugural Adelaide Living podcast series. The first series of ten episodes has flown by! A couple of weeks back we released our eighth episode, with the co-founder of IVF AI and imaging company Presagen/Life Whisperer, Michelle Perugini. On Monday this week, we released our ninth…