Stephen Collins

Stephen Collins

Founder at acidlabs

Canberra Area, Australia

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Stephen Collins’s Summary

Stephen develops strategy, drives corporate and cultural change, provides mentoring and delivers on bringing a strategic focus to his clients’ web presence with a focus on user experience, collaboration and community.

He helps clients with user experience strategy and design, with online communications internally and externally including business-to-client outreach, and with building organisational expertise with practices and tools that foster collaborative, innovative organisations.

He leads his clients on the journey of change needed to place people at the center of business, helping to change their capacity to retain, distribute and share knowledge and in helping them communicate in a more human way with their clients, customers and stakeholders.

Having spent 12 years in the Australian federal public sector, he is passionate Government 2.0 - reform of government to bring openness, collaboration, empowerment and public engagement to policy-making and program delivery.

He has extensive experience in government and private enterprise and has expertise in corporate communications, social media and networking, knowledge management, web strategy and project management, information architecture, user experience and business analysis.

Stephen Collins’s Specialties:

user experience design, public speaking, social media, social networking, web strategy, business analysis, enterprise 2.0, government 2.0, knowledge work, innovation, collaboration


Stephen Collins’s Experience

  • Board Member

    Electronic Frontiers Australia

    (Non-Profit; Public Policy industry)

    2009Present (less than a year)

  • Founder

    acidlabs

    (Privately Held; Internet industry)

    September 2006Present (3 years 3 months)

    Working with a range of public and private sector clients to bring powerful digital experiences to their staff, clients and users. Providing strategic advice and developing and implementing programs for collaboration, community building and engagement inside and outside client organisations.
    Projects include:
    - communications strategy for internal and external channels
    - web strategy and implementation including web project management
    - business analysis
    - social media strategy and implementation for marketing, collaboration and knowledge sharing
    - change management and evangelism
    - strategy, training and mentoring on collaboration and knowledge work
    - knowledge sharing, mentoring and dissemination strategy and implementation
    - development and implementation of strategy to support cultural change around collaborative enterprises
    - user experience design including information architecture, user testing and information design


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Stephen Collins’s Interests:

business communications, knowledge work, knowledge economy, social computing, web 2.0, enterprise 2.0, digital strategy

Stephen Collins’s Groups:

Web Standards Group, IIM National Conference 2007, Coworking , BarCamp, Social Media Collective, Office 2.0 Conference, DataPortability, E2EF Conference, Oz-IA 2007, Creative Skills Training Council, LinkedIn Bloggers, St Clare of Assisi School Council, Web Directions, WebDU

  •    Sydney IA-Peers
  •    Interaction Design Association
  •    Oz-IA Conference
  •    Speakers and Panelists
  •    Information Architecture Institute (IAI)
  •    WSG
  •    Swinburne AGSE Alumni Association
  •    eGov Community
  •    Social Media Today
  •    The Customer Collective
  •    Information Architect, IA
  •    Government 2.0
  •    Free Australia Wireless
  •    CTUB Canberra Twitter usergroup
  •    Enterprise 2.0 Group
  •    Electronic Frontiers Australia
  •    TED: Ideas Worth Spreading
  •    Social Media Club
  •    GovLoop

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