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Nick Hodge is a professional geek and digital diplomat for Microsoft in Australia. More info lives underneath the About Box...

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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

… to paraphrase the quotation below. Thanks to danah boyd for the inspiration.
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Thanks to Mark Pesce for the recommendation to the Essentials journalist, Nick Galvin.
Oh, and Fiona Morris had a version of the photo taken with cats. The cat versions were funnier. Behind the scenes: when the photo as [...]

New Business Card Title?

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

According to Stewart Greenhill, I am "the friendly face of the evil empire Nick “professional geek” Hodge"
Lulz.

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Creating in SecondLife

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

Thanks to Uncle Dave Wallace (to the left), I now feel properly attired in SecondLife:

Hanging out on the The Podcast Network island, where the Australian Twitterarti drop in and out. Donated some money to Cameron so he's not taking food from his family's mouth to create a place to visit.
Duncan Riley from Techcrunch posted his [...]

Small Geek in the Wheel

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

More cluely people join the Australian DPE team. It's way cool having smart friends on the team to balance my ignorance on all Microsoft matters important.
A Special shout out to the ever helpful Jeffa and Captain Coates.

Frank seems to be relieving his end-of-year frustrations by changing my title in the HR system. It [...]

Notes: Mount Gravatt ICT Day April 2007

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

Web 2.0: needs extra work to map to teaching outcomes (del.icio.us, flickr) Many Web 2.0 sites still blocked by policy. It makes it difficult to use all the cool web 2.0 stuff in school, especially when these tools will be used by the students for project delivery. Think a mashup as a project handin. (cool!)
If [...]

Difference of Opinion: Digital Age

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

It has been an excellent week for the ABC. The Curtin "docu-drama" gave a portrait of a man of his time: Prime Minister John Curtin during the 1941 through 1942.
Last night, Jeff McMullan did a standard "journalistic show" wrapped as debate on new technologies, and the impact on community on "Difference of Opinion: Growing Up [...]

Got the T-Shirt, now the Business Card

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

First, the email:
progeek@microsoft.com
Second the T-shirt:

Lastly, the business card:

Now I feel at home!

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