Online Insights on FIVEaa Sunday September 05 2010
This month on Online Insights, we will celebrate fathers day, look at parking in a whole new light, view incredible video tricks, and think about a calendar that falls to pieces.
First though, Google unveiled a new tool in Gmail accounts since we last spoke. If you have a Gmail email account you can turn on priority sorting. This means that Google applies some clever thinking in your inbox, based on your usual email habits to help sort your more important email from less important stuff. For example, if you always open emails from certain people, they will sit at the top of your inbox and vice versa for emails you usually leave unopened or delete. Another clever tool from Google – sometimes I wonder how I’d navigate the world without them!
Fathers Day
It’s Fathers Day today and that brings us to Australian Camp Connect. I’d never heard of this group but it exists to help dads connect or reconnect with kids. It says it is all about grabbing your kids, a sleeping bag and a torch, and heading off on a journey to deeper relationships. Continue reading
Online Insights with Steve Davis on FIVEaa, Sunday, August 9, 2009
Baby Boomers
There are five million Baby Boomers in Australia so I suppose there must be a number listening right now. Therefore, I thought I should share a website created by an Adelaide man, David Stephens, who has probably been researching Baby Boomers for two decades on behalf of governments, agencies and universities. And I must say that what he has created does not fit into what I would have expected a boomers site to look at. I worked with David and his team through Patrick Baker and Associates in the planning stages of this project and it has completely shifted my understanding of that massive bubble in our population aged between mid-forties and mid-sixties or, to be precise, born between 1946 and 1964.
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