Professional & Academic Engagements

September 2000 Finalist judge for the Australian Financial Review Internet Awards.

September 2000 Workshop presenter for a day long seminar on online writing and publication for the Victorian Writers' Centre.

November 1999 Panel speaker for the State Library's Business Forum Series on electronic publication and commerce.

November 1999 Guest on 3RRR radio to speak about the future of online media.

October 1999 Invited speaker for the Content is Key conference held by the Australian Writers Guild. Spoke on writing and publishing for the Internet.

August 1999 Finalist judge for the Telstra/Financial Review Australian Internet Awards.

April 1999 Invited speaker for Swinburne postgraduate course in electronic writing organised by Lisa Gye.

October 1998 Finalist judge for the Telstra/Financial Review Australian Internet Awards.

July 1998 Invited speaker for the Australian Film Commission's Being Connected conference.

December 1997 Guest speaker for the Masters of Multimedia lecture series at RMIT.

November 1997 Panel speaker on writing for digital media at Crack the Binary Code, a conference in conjunction with the Interact exhibition.

October 1997 Finalist judge for the Telstra/Financial Review Australian Internet Awards.

October 1997 Panel speaker on writing for digital media at the Australian Teachers of Creative Writing meeting.

August 1997 Guest Speaker for the Australian Society of Technical Communicators dinner.

August 1997 Guest speaker on women in computing and the Internet for Women in Film and Television meeting.

August 1997 Panel head and organiser for papers on digital storytelling for the Australian Interactive Multimedia Industry Association conference.

July 1997 Panel speaker for RMIT Creative Writing Department's literary lunch.

July 1997 Panel speaker for Experimenta, an avant garde literary group.

May 1997 Guest speaker for Society of Business Communicators meeting.

February 1997 Guest speaker for the Australian Society of Editors conference.

February 1997 Consulted to the Cinemedia think tank on the development of a new national museum of screen culture.

January 1997 Participated in the Hyperwave Consortium meeting at Graz University of Technology, Austria.

October 1996 Finalist judge for the Telstra/Financial Review Australian Internet Awards.

October 1996 Delivered paper at the AIMIA conference, Melbourne.

November 1996 Delivered paper ACM Multimedia 96, Boston.

August 1996 Interviewed by MSNBC about my work in digital media for US radio broadcast.

Augsut 1996 Participated in a debate sponsored by the Electronic Frontiers Australia at University of Melbourne concerning Internet censorship.

June 1996 Interviewed by The Bookshow about literature and digital media for TV.

April 1996 Guest speaker for the Digital Aesthetics Conference, which was combined with the Language of Interactivity Conference run by the Australian Film Commision.

November 1995 Guest speaker for Seminars for Women in Management & Leadership organised by the Tasmanian Educational Consortium.

October 1995 Guest speaker for the Melbourne Writers' Festival giving a speech titled, "Playing in the MUD".

September 1995 Guest speaker for the AUUG '95 & Asia Pacific World Wide Web '95 Conference speaking on "You think This Is a Revolution, You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet".

September 1995 Guest lecturer on publishing and the Internet at the Sapporo Hyperlab of the University of Hokkaido, Japan.

September 1995 Guest speaker at The Second National Book Summit organised by the National Book Council speaking on "The Electronic Story".

July 1995 Asked to run a one day workshop in good web design by the Professional and Graduate Education program.

February 1995 Interviewed by Beyond 2000 about online shopping for TV.

1995 Gave general talks about what is the Internet to the national Meeting Industry Association meeting, national Dun & Bradstreet conference, Box Hill Library, Frankston TAFE.