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News from Datalink HQ.2010 Local Government Technology Solutions Conference
04 August 2010
Datalink will be presenting at the 2010 Local Government Technology Solutions Conference .
The theme for this year's event is "Navigating the Path of Change"
The conference is being held on 12 - 13 August 2010 at Sofitel Melbourne On Collins with representatives from about 50 councils from around Victoria likely to attend.
Datalink's Managing Director, Scott Davey will present "Web Innovation" including case studies from innovative councils.
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Christmas office hours and support 2009
14 December 2009
Office closure during the Christmas period
Datalink's offices will be closed from Friday 18th December at 1pm and re-opening at 9am on Monday 4th January. We wish you and your staff a safe and happy festive season and look forward to working with you in the New Year.
Access to support
For support over the holiday period, Datalink has a premium support service for our maintenance and hosting customers.
If you are a Datalink customer and have a problem with your hosting service, your website or your intranet, then you can contact our support team here. Simply fill in this form and an on-call support engineer will get back to you.You can use the form to report system outages, and to request critical and urgent support for your Datalink-managed website or intranet. Lithio hosting outages will be rectified free of charge, but all other support will incur a charge.
With 24 hour support covering both hosting and your website code, you're in safe hands with Datalink.
Merry Christmas
Datalink would like to wish our customers a merry Christmas and a safe and prosperous new year.
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MECC Presentation to Bushfire Royal Commission
29 April 2009
A Royal Commission into the February 2009 "Black Saturday" Victorian bushfires, the worst in Australia's history, was held in April. One of the key purposes of the Commission was to review the Government's bushfire strategy.
The MECC Central system, piloted by Alpine Shire MECC (Municipal Emergency Co-ordination Centre) was put into practice to manage the emergency as Bright and mountain hinterland was threatened by several fires which burned a total of over 30,000 hectares during the bushfires.
While there were no deaths in Alpine Shire, there were in neighbouring Indigo Shire. There was significant property damage in both shires.
Due to the significance of the event Datalink, with Alpine Shire, was part of a report presentation on the effectiveness of the web based system (one of the first of its kind) in the bushfire emergency co-ordination effort.
Many other MECCs operate purely using old fashioned face-to-face and call-centre type communication. MECC operators have traditionally been hesitant to embrace technology in an area that is so hands on. However the experience at Alpine Shire was positive and the consensus was that it complemented the traditional communication. It may well have helped saved lives and property.
As a result, several other local councils are now looking into integrated web based solutions for emergency co-ordination in preparation for next year's bushfire season.
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Datalink News Archive
- Youth Portals play small but important role in bushfire relief - 12 February 2009
- Datalink Responds to Bushfire Crisis with MECC offer - 09 February 2009
- Alpine Shire to get a Youth Portal - 03 February 2009
- Christmas Trading Hours 2008 - 13 December 2008
- Google Street View glitch or UFO attack on Datalink ? - Sean Fishlock - 13 August 2008
- Youth Websites take out the Design Awards - 17 July 2008
- Datalink celebrates 10 years - Scott Davey - 30 April 2008
- Athletics Australia wins Australian Sports Award for their Datalink website - Sean Fishlock - 26 March 2008
- Datalink supports Earth Hour Melbourne 2008 - 26 March 2008
- Sydney web design & development - Sean Fishlock - 15 February 2008
- Christmas office hours and support 2007 - 20 December 2007
- Datalink support gets an upgrade - Scott Davey - 14 December 2007
- Australia China project management presentation - 12 November 2007
- City of Whittlesea launch new Youth Website - 20 September 2007
- Talking e-Democracy with Government of China - 18 September 2007
- TADVIC to redevelop website - 17 September 2007
- Local Government Technology Solutions Conference - 08 August 2007
- Shire of Yarra Ranges to redesign youth website - 16 July 2007
- Welcome to our new website - Scott Davey - 09 April 2007
- Government e-Citizenship presentation for LGPRA - Scott Davey - 06 April 2006
- Endorsed Government Supplier - Scott Davey - 05 April 2006
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