Monthly Archives: August 2010

This is part 2 of my interview in Sydney with Peter Williams (@rexster), the CEO of Deloitte Digital.

I’ve already blogged about their policy and I had a bunch of other stuff I’d wanted to talk to him about. For example, Deloitte has a great relationship with the entrepreneurship program at RMIT and he’s been invited to speak at TEDxCanberra…

During the interview we got talking about social media and all of a sudden Pete was describing how he’d used it to help organise the relief effort in the town of Flowerdale after the Victorian Bushfires:

“[We used] social media and web 2.0 tools, like pbworks, blogger, vimeo and youtube, flickr to communicate, raise funds and build a temporary village and more importantly to help residents vision a safer and sustainable future.”

Here he is telling the story:

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TRANSCRIPT:

The biggest thing I learnt was self-organisation in a disaster – community works so much better than officials or agencies coming in.…