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Celebrating 30 Years of Looking ForwardAustralian Policy Online (APO) goes open source...Speaker: Amanda Lawrence, Managing Editor, Australian Policy Online Amanda will discuss the process of upgrading the Australian Policy Online website, which was launched in its new form in May this year. In particular she will look at the process of selecting a content management system for CCI and APO, and the implementation of the open source CMS Drupal. About the speaker: Amanda Lawrence is managing editor of the gateway website Australian Policy Online hosted by the Institute for Social Research at Swinburne University of Technology. She also edits the Creative Economy weekly newsletter and manages the website for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation. She is currently completing a Graduate Diploma in Library and Information management at RMIT. Since completing an arts degree with honours at the University of Melbourne, Amanda has worked in various roles in the book industry, including manager of the Literature Program at the Asialink Centre from its inception in 1996 until 2005, program manager at the Victorian Writers Centre, newsletter editor and bookseller at Readings books and music, and coordinator of the 1999 Melbourne Festival of Poetry. Not a VALA member?
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