We’ve just released a new parking product called UPark Plus. Good timing – we released it during COVID-19 as a ‘touchless parking’ option and attached a cheap $8 parking offer for parking in the CBD. Uptake has been pretty good. To create a UPark Plus account, it’s necessary to sign up on the UPark website…
Author: Clayton Wehner
Easy English Guide for COVID-19
The sheer volume of COVID-19 information out there makes it difficult for most people to absorb and comprehend, let alone those members of our community who have low English literacy, or have vision or cognitive impairments. To help, we’ve just published an “Easy English” guide on our website that explains which City of Adelaide services…
Chatbot case study from Hopstay
Hopstay have put together a nice case study PDF about the City of Adelaide chatbot.
Adelaide Living Podcast Ep.7 is live: Damon Gameau
You might recognise his face from his roles in films like ‘The Tracker’ and ‘Balibo’, or TV shows like ‘The Kettering Incident’, ‘Love My Way’ and ‘Underbelly’, but Adelaide-born Damon Gameau has found his true path behind the camera, as a filmmaker. His latest doco, ‘2040’, tackles the subject of the effects of climate change with a…
Minecraft Adelaide covered in Sunday Mail
The City of Adelaide’s Minecraft ‘Adelaide 2021’ world was covered in an article in yesterday’s Sunday Mail. Kudos to Jonathon Bailey and Josh Roberts, who together are the driving force behind our Minecraft project. Jonathan is a final-year Maths student at the University of Adelaide and worked on the project as a work experience student…
Our Mother’s Day video for 2020 (including an appearance from the clowns)
Mel Stewart produced this great Mother’s Day video with Shootsta’s help. Maddy and Alex both appear in it.
Minecraft ‘Adelaide 2021’ World is now live
We’ve taken the ‘Adelaide 2021’ Minecraft world live today at https://www.cityofadelaide.com.au/minecraft. The new world has the built-form of Adelaide in place, created using GIS data. Today’s release follows on from the earlier release of ‘Adelaide 1836’, which contains Colonel Light’s original town plan, before building has commenced. The 1836 world has had over 820 downloads…
Nobody’s booking, so it’s the best time to work on our Adelaide accommodation options
We’ve done a bit of work on our accommodation listings on the City of Adelaide website over the past couple of months during the COVID-19 situation. These listings are powered by data from the Australian Tourism Data Warehouse. We’re trialling affiliate bookings through Booking.com to see if there’s a revenue source for the council. We’ve…
Many hats of video conferencing
Video conferencing fatigue was always going to set in at some stage with this COVID-19 business, so we decided from the outset to wear a new hat to every single meeting to keep it ‘fresh’. What I have learnt is that some of my team members have far deeper inventories of hats than I do.
Spring clean of our email marketing lists
We’ve done a bit of a spring clean of our email marketing mailing lists in City of Adelaide, and done a bit of an internal and external push to get as many new subscribers as possible… Who said email is dead? Despite the emergence of social media and messaging apps, many of us are still…
Adelaide Zoom, MS Teams and Google Meet Backgrounds
Wish you were back working in the city, Adelaideans? Help relieve your longing for normality by installing one of our special ‘City of Adelaide Virtual Meeting Backgrounds’ for your next online meeting! We’ve got 20+ great city backgrounds to download right now. Not only will you look great on camera, you’ll also impress your workmates…
Colouring-in is an adult pursuit
Colouring-in. There was a time when this pursuit was reserved for the kiddies, but today it’s also recognised as an activity for ‘grown ups’, bringing with it a host of positive mental health and wellbeing benefits. In the current circumstances, we need all the help we can get to stay sane, so we’ve published a…
Digital and marketing support for City of Adelaide’s COVID-19 effort
The City of Adelaide is continuing to provide essential services to the community during COVID-19, including public cleansing, waste management, horticultural care, business support and customer service. Rundle Mall and the Adelaide Central Market remain open, with the latter offering a fantastic drive-through pickup service. Our car parking business UPark is offering $8 capped parking…
Unprecedented.
Google Trends reports that the appearance of the word ‘unprecedented’ in search results in Australia over the past 2 months is unprecedented.
Stackla news feed widget for COVID-19
We’re using a Stackla news feed widget that aggregates COVID-19 from trusted news sources in South Australia, and we’re displaying the feed on the City of Adelaide website. The feed pulls in COVID-related content from SA Health, The Advertiser, the Federal Government Department of Health, as well as displaying COVID-related posts from the Premier, Steven…
The old buildings of Adelaide
My latest heritage piece on the City of Adelaide website. This one is based on a State Library photo album containing photos of buildings that have mostly been demolished in the city, like the wonderful Exhibition Building that used to stand on North Terrace…see below. A bit of a travesty. The full heritage piece is…
ANZAC Day 2020
ANZAC Day is going to be a little different this year with the COVID-19 situation, but it’s so important that we remember the servicemen and women who fought to keep our country safe in times of war — as well as acknowledge the ADF personnel who are currently serving overseas, and here in Australia as…
Six podcasts down…more to come
Exhausted your Netflix playlist? Need a more wholesome pursuit after binge-watching Tiger King? Why not have a listen to the Adelaide Living podcast. We’re 6 episodes in, and after a short hiatus due to COVID-19, we’ll be publishing more episodes shortly. Listen to some great stories from Adelaide people right now – Mike Turtur AO,…
The Heritage Places of Adelaide: 2,400+ places in our online database
Delve back into the past with our new Heritage Places of Adelaide online database, containing a comprehensive listing of all 2,400+ heritage places in the Adelaide CBD and North Adelaide. Check it out here: https://explore.cityofadelaide.com.au/heritage-places/ The database has a user-friendly map user interface; it is filterable by Local, State, Commonwealth and National Heritage Places; and…
Minecraft Adelaide is live
Kids driving you nuts yet? Mine are. Here’s an idea to keep them occupied for a short while. Last week we released the ‘Adelaide 1836’ Minecraft world and so far we’ve had 600+ downloads. Your kids can take Colonel Light’s original plan of Adelaide and build an entirely new city, whether it’s sympathetic to Light’s…