Semi-Permanent gets underway at Darling Harbour, Sydney, next Friday, 19 March, and features two days of art, design, creativity, and a line up of speakers that includes triple j presenter and writer Craig Schuftan, US photographer Jill Greenberg, and Melbourne graphic design duo Tin&Ed.

Changes in methods of communication, which have become more immediate and direct by way of social media and networks, will increasingly change the way we work, and look for work, with today’s high-school students appearing to be well-equipped to negotiate future working environments.
One of their distinguishing characteristics is their extraordinary ability to multi-task and do [...]

Working as a slash careerist is – for the most part – a blast. You can roll a couple of interests into a hybrid sort of overall occupation, and if one or two parts of the equation aren’t exactly hauling in the cash, no problem, hopefully another of the slash/options will.
The hours might be [...]

Leonardo Borges’ reduced size business cards for recessionary times.

There’s only so far you can take online networking, especially if you’ve met very few of your virtual contacts in person. Getting together face-to-face over a coffee at least once is therefore a pretty good idea.
A cup of coffee is an opportunity to meet someone, talk about a few other things, make a friend [...]

Could a business card could be considered a concealed weapon in the hands of a lawyer?
Take into consideration the edges of your business card. A spa, for example, may make better use of a rounded card. It’s softer and feels more relaxed. A very serious law firm, as another example, who likes to keep things [...]

Ross Dawson: conferences as we know them are dead, long live unconferences.
Offering many opportunities for people to keep up to date on new trends and ideas, plus benefit from being able to connect with their peers. I believe and hope that traditional conference formats will struggle in coming years. Traditional event formats are dry and [...]

For best results professionally (and I dare say, personally), combine the power of social networking and face-to-face gatherings:
Using these electronic tools indiscriminately is a big mistake, say experts. “We have to use offline and online strategies and tools to be effective in today’s marketplace. It’s not an ‘either/or,’ it’s a ‘both,’” says Susan RoAne, a [...]

There has been a pronounced surge in the use of micro-blogging application Twitter in Australia since 2009 ticked over.
Why? Because not only is Twitter addictive, it is also a useful way to locate information and build networks, and it looks more people are beginning to understand this.
Prolific Sydney based Twitterer Stilgherrian (@stilgherrian) sums up [...]

The economic downturn means we finally have time for all those lunch dates we used to avoid a year ago because we were “too busy”. And even if time remains short they are still worth the effort, explains Michael Bierut:
In boom times, no one has time to talk. “Let’s have lunch” can be [...]