News & Discussion: Adelaide City Council

[monotonehell]

Geez I did fire up some emotions there!

I agree we need to continue to support development of our customer interface on all levels – face to face, snail mail, facebook, apps, webpage etc etc etc!

In my mind this is not about Apple or Microsoft or their products – it’s about being a modern corporation that gets information to users using a range of media.

We spend masses of $ on sponsorship, web site, media relations etc so $20K to develop a useable app that connects some of the dots is a very cheap way to help change the image, culture and information sharing of ACC. One more customer service staff member in Pirie Street centre would cost $50k – so lets explore cost effective innovation and try and set the trend in Local Government.

So start with what people want and need to know. Work out they best delivery methods and channels for that information. Develop the channels and publish. If one of those channels is an app then yay. The current website is becoming a morass of unsearchable pages.

[david]

Councillor's Notes - Issue 41

Getting information to the people!
-Copenhagen - What was agreed and what wasn't
-Plains to Plate
-Some Council decisions

[Nathan]

Councillor's Notes - Issue 41

Getting information to the people!
-Copenhagen - What was agreed and what wasn't
-Plains to Plate
-Some Council decisions

Great to hear about approval for the Exeter to use Vaughan Place, despite objections. I'm guessing all objections were from residents in the hideous apartments behind the Ex? The noise and rowdiness is far worse from the Elephant, than the actually quite well behaved Exeter crowds, so glad common sense prevailed.

Would love to hear some of the ridiculous bridge names, along side the winning choice!

[Clr Yarwood]

Hey guys, I’m a big supporter of Renew Adelaide; http://bit.ly/b9KDDk.

12th March in the evening in Peel Street I will be speaking with a few pple about making opportunities & removing obstacles for artists to use unused spaces.

Part of Format Festival, more info to come...

[Prince George]

Hey guys, I’m a big supporter of Renew Adelaide; http://bit.ly/b9KDDk.

12th March in the evening in Peel Street I will be speaking with a few pple about making opportunities & removing obstacles for artists to use unused spaces.

Part of Format Festival, more info to come...

Stephen, along these lines I'm interested in investigating what are either called Hackerspaces or Makerspaces. Essentially they are a combination of a community centre, laboratory, and workshop for tech-creatives; from a business point of view, it's something like an incubation centre, only at the level of ideas rather than businesses. There are a number of examples already across Australia - see here.

I'd love the chance to talk to you sometime about how we might make something like this happen.

[david]

Hi Nathan,

Attached is the report to Council listing all the bridge names. You can be the judge as to how many were 'sublime' and how many were 'ridiculous'! (Council has yet to make a decision)

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[Howie]

Thanks David, some of those bridge names are downright hilarious

[Wayno]

Hi David, will the Foot Bridge be opened on Feb 18? what time? and will there be a ceremony for it?

[Nathan]

I hope we go with the sensationally named "Bridge Over The River Torrens"

Thanks David!

[monotonehell]

Ouch. That list of names is ... painful. One person even has the wrong location. If we're going to put these things to the public, we should just call it 'Mister Splashy Pants' and be done with it.

[rogue]

I vote for "The Margaret Jackson-Nelson Pissant Panda Backwater Footbridge over troubled waters".

[skyliner]

A few carry any degree of respect for the exercise - many suggestions are very poor. Something linking Adelaide with significance events/people in our history or with a grandness about the name. (not a joke instead). it could complement names of the other bridges over the Torrens. A name that will not be dated by passing fads itsneeded. A couple of good ones in the first few IMO.

SA - STATE ON THE MOVE

[monotonehell]

Can anyone tell us what the intended use of this footbridge is? Now that I see its actual location, I can't work out who it's supposed to serve.

http://www.nearmap.com/?ll=-34.911869,1 ... d=20091226

[rogue]

I think its part of the parklands loop pathway

[david]

It is a part of the Park Lands Trail.
The attached map might be helpful. The footbridge (and cyclists) links Botanic Drive with War memorial Drive.
David

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