The following represents post made to this website before the advent of the blog. It's harder to read and search, but it's all there.....

After fairly consistent prodding and poking from various individuals (yes Graham, that includes you) I have decided to update the home page and archive the old news in the usual spot. The whole site probably needs a bit of a revamp and I may well use the same system that LiveJournal uses for my posts there. Not that I necessarily want the two sites linked so directly as my LJ posts are fairly academic and this is primarily a personal and professional site. Still, blogging is the way things are going for me professionally, and as Dr Stephen Dann noted today over lunch, the stuff I normally publish at joannejacobs.net is tantamount to a professional-annotated-bibliography-styled blog anyway, so why not combine the forces?

On procedural issues here is the agenda for the next several months:
- Australian Marketing Institute E-Marketing Conference, May 8 2003 - I am on the organisational committee for this industry conference. Flyers available soon. I'll also be involved in staging the seminars during the year, as I am on the Executive of the E-Marketing Special Interest Group.
- Australian and New Zealand Communication Association Conference, July 9-11, 2003 - I am on the organisational committee for this conference, am Secretary/Treasurer of ANZCA and will be one of the Editors of the Conference Proceedings
- Communications Research Forum, October 2003 - submitting a refereed paper
- Australia and New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference, December 1-3, 2003 - submitting a refereed paper
- Teaching Strategic Internet Marketing (x 4), E-Business (x 2), E-Communications Policy (2 versions), E-Publishing, Strategic Use of Information Technology (x 3) and Public and Commercial Policy in the ICT sector during the course of the year.
- Submitting 5-6 journal articles to Media International Australia, the Australian Journal of Communications, and the International Journal of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, and possibly the International Journal of Political Economy.

My media commitments have been reduced to an on-call basis, which probably is better promotion for the Brisbane Graduate School of Business as the last several months, though very enjoyable, have been a bit of a Joanne Jacobs Show rather than a promotional vehicle for the ideas and output of the School. I very much enjoy the opportunity to contribute to news print as well as broadcast media, so I hope to get those calls, but it's also nice to be able to prepare well and provide interesting content for the audience of these media presentations (the next one looks like it will be for Australia.internet.com - I've just checked my in-box and have a rather incisive series of questions from Craig Liddell on the ABC).

I am also still involved as a back room girl for the National Forum Incorporated, a project of Graham Young and his On Line Opinion Journal. Yes, I mean back room girl. I throw ideas around at meetings. That's it. I may well submit a few articles based on those blog posts on LiveJournal. Nothing else :-)

Personally I plan to spend this year doing less than last year. Yes even after all those things I have mentioned above, if I contain my work to just this, I hope I will end the year a little less stressed than last year! Nine (yes that is *nine*) conference and seminar presentations last year as well as developing a whole new academic specialisation, designing and teaching brand new courses, joining several professional associations and moving immediately into executive roles in those associations, consultancy work, and publishing rather took its toll on me. Plus moving to Brisbane at the beginning of the year was a bit tiring, and getting used to the place does take some time. But the good news is that I am very happy here, and feel rather at home. I'm looking forward to investing in property here hopefully later this year.

On the social scene, I want to just take things easily this year. No pressure, no expectations I think is the best strategy. I will miss Andy and Raechel when they move down to Canberra but I wish them both well and I promise to stay in regular communication (we'll have to get you two a blog!). Melissa's baby is due in April (although I have just heard it may come sooner than that!) and I lok forward to seeing Melissa and Michael happily starting their family together. I wish Liz all the very best for her exercise and health kick she is now adopting and look forward to many mornings of yoga and many coffees, dinners and great nights out! It's great to have such lovely friends in Brisbane! I also want to send *hugs* to all of MelbXF and a sepcial *hang in there - we love you* to Robin Harrison. Your world tour is amazing, hon. And to my dear GWHS girlfriends *hugs and love* I miss you all. Finally to my extended family, the Vogts, Gary,Naomi & Rachel, Trev, Marg, Katherine & Jessica, Chris, Carolyn & Sam (and baby #2) and the Jacobs family (Dad - see? I do update every now and then!), and the Dann Clan I want to say a big *hello, hugs and love* to you all and I look forward to catching up this year!

28 January 2003

And so much for the last three months...

The trouble has been that I have presented four conference papers (see publication details here) and taught five subjects, written a study guide, flown interstate twice, spent far too much time and money in physiotherapy for my back, and basically had a fairly stressful three months. Birthday came and went fairly unspectacularly, but it was great to see people in Melbourne during the few brief hours I was there for the ANZMAC conference. I'm about to fly off to Melbourne again for Christmas and will be back home in Brisbane for New Year. Haven't worked out what I am doing for New Year's yet, but I know what I don't want to do, and that's spend time at a party playing games or just sitting around. I'd rather spend New Year's this year either out on the town among the beautiful people, or quietly with a few good friends. Oh well - we'll see what happens.

But the BEST news of all in the last three months is that my brother, Andy G, announced his engagement to the lovely Eloise! *BIG HUGS TO YOU BOTH!* It's just fantastic to see you so happy, and I wish you both a lifetime of joy and peace. Congratulations and much love to you!

Well so much for those 2 months. July ended on a good note with teaching and writing to keep me busy. In August, after some 'issues' with the apartment, everything started to get hectic again and things started happening in Steve's life that sort of intervened over everything else. He resigned, and his brother departed for England and before you knew it, the month was over. Finally as September dawned, Mum came to stay and it was great to have her here. *many hugs to Mum* Thanks for your patience with my work schedule and with my tiredness at the end of the day. Amazing thing with the weather. It's been cold pretty much since you left.

Now I'm back to having papers written (with more to write), study guides to prepare and the upcoming trip to Canberra to plan for. In the meantime, several hospital tests have cleared me of any nasty things going on and instead I'm finishing each day in a fair bit of pain with a suspected shredded ligament that normally stretches from the base of the pelvis to the hip. Nasty and uncomfortable, but life (and work) must go on.

June is always the busiest month of the year. I have completed the study guide for GSN470 E-Business and am plugging away at Powerpoint slides and the next study guide. They take a *long* time to get done. I have the ANZMAC paper due on Friday this week and the Communications Research forum paper due the following Friday. I will be at the ANZCA conference the following week, presenting my designs for the new ANZCA website to the Annual General Meeting. I am also meeting regularly with the strategic development group on the On Line Opinion expansion project and am preparing my seminar paper for the Australian Institute of Management. Have also just returned from Thailand on a QUT mission for international students, and a quick trip to Melbourne to do talk-back radio and meet with old Monash co-workers. Some interesting projects being tackled by Monash with the Biographical Dictionary going online. Thankyou to my Mum for having me in Melbourne - was great to spend time with you Mum - and to my friends for making my stay so restful and happy.

I have also *finally* updated calendars for June and July. August coming soon...

Where does the time go? Straight after the last news post I spoke at the SBCQ breakfast and Stephen broke his hand. I completed my marking and submitted results for Semester 1A and began work on the study guides for subjects beginning in a matter of 8 weeks. My uncle David came to stay for a few days as he attended medical conferences here in Brisbane and my mother departed for her trip around Europe. I then had a pitched battle with the mouse who had set up a nice little arrangement behind my display units at home and hope I have conviced it not to return. I then spoke at a Uni of Queensland Sociology seminar last Friday on the Australian Digital Citizen, and hope the research may prove useful to others in a similar field. Finally, we have established just on Tuesday that I am going to Thailand in June and have my airfares booked for that and the Melbourne trip in the same week. I've had Hepatitis A & B shots and Typhoid this week and have yet to get my Tetanus/Diptheria and second Hep A & B shot.

Oh yeah and Star Wars:Attack of the Clones opened at midnight last night. :-) There's my geek nature peeping through again. I just *had* to go see it. And to celebrate, Steve got his cast off the afternoon. YAY for him!!! :-)