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About Me

Stumbling into a career in information and records management, I have spent about 10 years in government helping organisations sort out better ways to capture and keep their knowledge.

I am currently doing a personal development project I've called A Year of TED. This involves implementing the ideas from TED talks into my daily life - feel free to join the insanity www.kyliedunn.com

A year into our treechange I am trying to spend more time on creative pursuits, which fortunately has been able to include design work in my job.

Location:
Australia, Hobart
Current organization:
Disability, Housing and Community Services - Tasmanian Government
Past organizations:
Housing Tasmania - Tasmanian Government, Roads & Traffic Authority of NSW, Australia, Royal Australian Air Force
Current role:
Manager, Strategy, Performance and Information
Gender:
Female
Areas of expertise:
Explaining a complex topic in understandable ways, Conceptualisation, Visually representing complex topics, Writing, information management and use
I am:
Artist, Atheist, Blogger, Change Agent, Designer, Educator/Teacher, Idea generator, Public servant, Technologist
Associations:
Records and Information Management Professionals of Australasia
My website links:
A Year of TED, Simply Managed
Universities:
University of Technology Sydney (UTS), University of Wollongong, Australia
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I'm passionate about

Learning and sharing those learnings with others.

An idea worth spreading

Listening and being inspired by all of the speakers is only one part of the process - there is also the doing.

I am currently doing "A Year of TED", incorporating some of the more inspiring and tangible talks into my life. Focusing on how I might become a better person and maybe even do something exciting through the process.

I have a blog to capture the process (www.kyliedunn.com) thereby achieving the connection and sharing part of all of this - I just hope that I can do these amazing people justice.

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  • TEDCred score: +15.60 TEDCred reflects your contribution to the TED community.

  • A comment on Talk: ShaoLan: Learn to read Chinese ... with ease!

    May 8 2013: An amazing concept, now I want to learn more. Fascinating and so simple.

    Thank you ShaoLan
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    A comment on Conversation: What is your Six Word Story (http://www.sixwordstories.net/) as a result of watching this TED?

    May 8 2013: I wish I had a Rita

  • A comment on Talk: Shane Koyczan: "To This Day" ... for the bullied and beautiful

    Mar 9 2013: That was amazing Shane, such beauty and passion. Definitely a talk I will share with others. Thank you
  • +4

    A comment on Talk: Janine Shepherd: A broken body isn’t a broken person

    Dec 4 2012: The power of the human spirit should never be underestimated, and you are proof of that Janine. Thank you for sharing your very powerful story.

  • A reply on Conversation: What motivates you?

    Sep 25 2012: I would have to agree with this, or more appropriately I guess the speakers from TED. They have motivated me enough to have almost completed a Year of TED - www.kyliedunn.com
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    A reply on Talk: Jon Ronson: Strange answers to the psychopath test

    Aug 19 2012: My brain just flashed to A Clockwork Orange when I started reading this reply. That is a fantastic creative work on the very topic of the morality about forced treatment of 'disorders'.

    It would be nice to not have the extreme of these characteristics, but where is the line drawn? When do we become bland personalities because we lack some of these elements, when are we willing to lose the positive things that they can produce in the world as well? Very murky ground indeed.

  • A comment on Talk: Rives: Reinventing the encyclopedia game

    Jun 30 2012: Great talk Rives, as always. Don't you think that it does lose something in the serendipity though? When you would look up an entry in a book the content you were looking for lived within a heap of other content that you had to go past (including images and diagrams), and that is when you would end up sidetracked or discovering something completely random and new.
    Don't get me wrong, I love the speed that you can do this sort of discovery with on the internet, especially a site like wikipedia that is all linked together. I just think that there is something that gets lost in the process by not having all of the surrounding content.
  • +2

    A comment on Conversation: Fill in the Blank - What the World needs now is __________ ?

    Jun 26 2012: ACCOUNTABILITY
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    A reply on Talk: Megan Kamerick: Women should represent women in media

    Jun 18 2012: Long bow Andrew, I have never missed work due to my period, and I have only ever worked with one woman who (very rarely) missed work for this reason. I agree with your main point that our biology is partly to blame for the setup around having children, but let's leave it at that. Otherwise you are passing a vast generalisation that we are so biologically inferior that we need more sick leave just to deal with our period.
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    A reply on Conversation: What is your biggest regret so far?

    Jun 11 2012: I don't think it is regret free, I think that it helps you come to terms with the regrets and let them go, but you cannot identify the mistake and the lesson to be learned if you don't experience regret about the situation in the first instance.

    When you truly work out how to do this let us all know. I'm trying to let go of my regrets as well, some successfully but others not so much. If you learn how to do that, then that is an idea truly worth spreading :-)
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