Blog on Cairns #2

Cairns Bloggers, welcome back to Blog On Cairns. Bloggers who have not updated their sites since last weeks Carnival are not included in this post. Many thanks to those dedicated few who have harnessed the power, marketing and reach of the blogosphere.

Andrew Griffiths: Andrew is one of the Ambassadors for ACT for Kids (the renamed Abused Child Trust). At the launch of Child Protection Week, ACT for Kids held a supporters lunch in Brisbane where Andrew was a guest speaker. Andrew says:

ACT for Kids is an organisation with one aim – to rid Australia of child abuse, in any form.

I’m right behind you Andrew. Many people in Cairns say no to child abuse. Can Cairns can it though?  Together we are making an impact and changing culture to one of zero tolerance against childhood violence.

Birdwing Therapies: Keran is hosting a Strengths Based training in Cairns on Tuesday and Wednesday this coming week. The training is FULLY booked.

The Strengths Based training with St Luke’s Innovative Resources (Bendigo, Victoria) at Imaginif in Cairns is booked out. Thank you for the fantastic response! We are all working hard to get the last details in place (we are talking catering of course!).We are looking forward to a sensational two days training with a fantastic group of local practitioners……

Cairns Blog.net: Michael Moore stands At the edge of the Cliff. In a beginning account of the Australian Federal Parliament’s introduction of a bill to remove discrimination against same-sex partners (I support this bill – stop ALL discrimination), Michael peeks into the bedroom of Cliff Richard. Cliff, sick to death of public innuendo, admits that he is in a long term live in companionship with a man – an ex Roman Catholic priest.

Cairns Unlimited: Steve and Maria are loving that Summer is back in the Tropical North. Breaking from their usual winter routine of drinking the first coffee at their computers, they threw winter out with the recycling and headed straight for the beach. Gotta love Cairns and our fantastic climate and lifestyle.

Have camera will travel: Documentary photography aims to create pictures where the people in them are acting naturally. However, when Being a fly on the wall, etiquette must be observed. Paul suggests a number of ways to both get natural looking shots and not upset people when they notice that you are snapping them. Who wants to be hit with a fly swat? Not me!

Imaginif Child Protection became Serious Business: Consider this your personal invitation to a private protest against sexual violence toward women and children – Teddies Reclaim the Night. On Friday, October 31st (Halloween), the annual and international Reclaim the Night rally will take place on Megan’s upstairs front verandah. With huge exposure to peak hour traffic, I hope you will join us to say no to violence against women and children. Gold coin entry, byo picnic tea, teddies and candels on sale.

Knowledge Solutions: Digital text can do better and blogs increase business bottom line! There’s a FANTASTIC video clip in Luke’s Is Web 2.0 still in a phase of Proliferation and I encourage you all to watch it. Web 2.0 makes use of digital networking, easy linking and borderless business premises. WEb 2,0 is the difference between a brochure and a conversation. WEb 2.0 platforms are business and blogs are just one tool of that business. If you are not embracing all that Blogs can offer your business then you need to rethink your marketing plan. Digital does it better!

Nicky Jurd: A word from Nicky – Is that all one word? Welcome back to blogging Nicky. I missed you…or should I say, imissedyou.com.au?

nunyaa: I made a joke recently about Nunyaa, the Flying Nun from Flying Fish Point. Well bugger me dead – guess what she has posted about this week! Flying Fish Point. Reminiscing about Damper, fishing, sand flies and barra, I’m with Nunyaa, the Johnston River crocodiles scare the life out of me and keep us both on the shore!!!!

Psych Matters: Char leaves us with some words of wisdom around Problem solving

We can look at exactly the same thing and yet divide it up in many different ways. Perception decides how we structure the world around us. Edward de Bono (1996)

Teddy Tour: Used to the effects of child sexual abuse (I am a therapist), I am always moved by the powerful words of survivors. In Why did you send me to stay with him, Forgotten ponders on her changed attachment to her carer

He abused me. I know he abused you too. Why did you send me to stay with him?  These are the truths unspoken between us, this is the question I have never asked you.  These are the words that lie in the silences between words, so that when we talk, we do not talk.  So do not ask me why I am so distant.

That’s it for this week folks. There hasn’t been a great deal of blog updating but thanks to those who do keep their blogs interestingly active. Don’t forget to get your posts in for next weekends Blog On Cairns carnival. Submit here.

Please visit each other and get to know who blogs about what in Cairns. Let me know of other bloggers I can add to the Cairns list. Link to each other, link to this carnival. Linking raises indexing and increases circulation remember what Luke showed us in his video – Digital is better).

Would anyone like to host this carnival one weekend…you will be amazed at how many hits you get as people check their trackbacks and key search terms bring new visitors.

Leave me a comment to let me know what you think about having the Cairns bloggers posts highlighted in a single place. Leave a comment for your neighbour bloggers too. Just as a Fly on a wall has etiquette, so too do bloggers. Lurking and stalking without comments is not a way to make new friends and encourage repeat visits.