Australian Regulatory Compliance Review

1000th post

This is my 1000th post since this weblog began as a spin-off of my other sites on 17 July 2004 ! Here's my first post (the passage of CLERP9).

If you google "australian financial services compliance" it is the number 1 website.

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Australian Blogging Conference

You may not realise it but this site is a weblog (blog).

QUT will be hosting the Australian Blogging Conference on 28 September.

The program includes Business and Corporate Blogging and Legal Issues.

It is being organised by Peter Black. Recommended.

Report to my readers

If you've come to www.djacobson.com looking for External Insights, don't go! External Insights is still on this site but no longer on the front page.

That honour now goes to Australian Regulatory Compliance Review (ARCR) which has overtaken External Insights in reader interest. ARCR will still also be accessible at its previous location if you had it bookmarked. The RSS feed will not change.

After 664 posts over 3 years I will be gradually redesigning ARCR (any suggestions from readers will be considered).

In case you're wondering how I decide what to write about, here are my basic rules: I do not promote third party products, take ads or payments and do not talk about current client matters. I aim to find the original source for regulatory material and do not rely on media reports if I can avoid it.

Most of you are aware of my free monthly e-newsletter. Hundreds of people every day receive the daily emails of new ARCR items and the RSS feed. (You don't use these? Subscribe in the right-hand column).

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Collaborative compliance wiki

We are all looking for ways to store and find that document or piece of information we're going to need in the future.

And just as importantly we are looking to find ways to share that information with others.

In my quest for a solution, I have set up a wiki to help share tools and information to manage compliance. The goal is to create a "how to" resource as much as a "what to do" resource collectively with like-minded persons and to co-operatively improve our compliance resources.

Unlike Wikipedia which is an encyclopaedic open wiki, this wiki will be limited to compliance and can't be changed unless you register.

Communities of practice have become a cornerstone of the knowledge strategy of leading organizations.

If you're interested in risk management and compliance I invite you to join.

Go to www.complianceonline.com.au and have a look.

The site is designed to be co-operative: by registering (there is no fee) you can suggest topics, create new pages or add to or comment on existing topics. You can contribute by identifying problems you are trying to solve, outcomes you are trying to achieve, lessons learned or solutions you've already devised.

Or you may wish to focus on one issue rather than the variety I have started on.

Let me know what things are important to your business or the things that interest, challenge, excite or intrigue you. If we have common interests  I will try to provide the resources on the wiki.

You can just read collaborative compliance wiki if you want to but if you want to participate you will need to register.

Daily updates by email now available

As a lot of people still like to get an email when something new is posted about regulations and compliance, users of Australian Regulatory Compliance Review can now receive daily updates by email. If you wish, a message will be delivered to your email address if I have produced new content on that day. No new content, no email for you.

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