The NBN is going to change the way we communicate with each other and the world. South Hobart has been included in Stage Two of the National Broadband Network rollout with construction commencing shortly. To find out what exciting benefits fibre optic broadband will bring to you and your community, visit an information session any time between 10am–1pm on Saturday 29 October 2011 at the following venue:

South Hobart Primary School (Gymnasium)
59 Anglesea Street South Hobart
10am – 1pm

No RSVP is necessary.

OzHub has been launched as a result of an economic papercommissioned by Macquarie Telecom and produced by economist Nicholas Gruen of Lateral Economics. Ozhub is an coalition to build Australian consumer and business confidence in cloud computing. Together with the Australian Communications Consumers Action Network (ACCAN), OzHub is working together to understand consumer needs, and to develop a self-regulating framework and a set of protocols for cloud computing here in Australia.

A recent business online report by MYOB, showed that only 35% of Tasmanian businessess had a website. In response to this startling figure, an exciting new online business initaitive was launched today by a collaboration between three well known Hobart businesses, Ionata Web Solutions, Hobart Design and Alastair Brett Photograhy.

Led by Martin Anderson, Principal of Ionata Web Solutions, dobusinessonline is a response to energise and let small businesses in Tamania know that they can easily go online and grow their business. New tools and technologies put the capabilities of effective online business well within the reach of small buisnesses. It is about evolving  businesses and providing additional customer service to existing customers as well as reaching out to new ones.

Congratulations to the dobusinessonline group, an excellent inititaive!