The Australian Broadcasting Corporation(ABC), Australia’s leading public broadcasting group, is live with Pluck tools on their site.  The ABC provides services to national and International audiences through ABC TV, Internet Radio (DIG), ABC Local Radio, ABC Radio National, ABC News Radio, ABC Classic FM, Triple J National Youth radio, Radio Australia, ABC New Media, ABC Asia Pacific, and ABC Enterprises.  In addition to providing programming of all types of media, the ABC has an active and engaged online community throughout Australia and the world.

ABC is currently live with photos, audio recordings and videos.  ABC will soon begin extending their usage of Pluck tools to include the use of comments.  I encourage you to check out Pluck in action on the site today and stay tuned for more as the ABC continues to extend their community.


Heywire:   HEYWIRE is a space and a competition for young people from regional Australia.  Their users have the ability the share their stories and opinions in text, photo and video. 

• http://www.abc.net.au/heywire/recent.html?type=photos 

Q&A Adventures in Democracy: Q&A is a television program airing on ABC1. 

• ABC community members have the ability to upload video questions for the Q&A team to answer:  http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/video-questions.htm
• ABC Community members are also encouraged to create video satires on Australian politics called Mashups.  Q&A Mashups on any topic can be uploaded to the community homepage:  http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/video-mashups.htm 

Adam Hills: Adam Hills in Gordon St Tonight is a weekly talk show staring… the comedian Adam Hills.

• Viewers of the show are able to upload photos and videos to the Show And Tell portion of the ABC website for use on the air.  Each week there is a new theme.  You can see some of the galleries here:  http://www.abc.net.au/tv/adamhillsIGST/show_tell/all_galleries.htm

Many more to come…  ABC is just getting started and I expect to see a plethora of interesting community features and engagement from them in the future.