Mediation Communications
Shane Scanlan created media and communications business Mediation Communications in 1986.
Prior to that Shane was an A-grade metropolitan journalist.
Since starting the business, Shane has managed a number of other businesses and impressive consultancies in his "spare time".
These include:
- Being the State of Victoria's first whole of government webmaster in 1996;
- Being a founder and principal of Tenders Online which operated successfully from 1995 until 2006 when it was sold to an Reed Information Systems;
- Being a KPMG associate consultant and working successfully on the Victorian Government's Health Channel and later the Government's Education Channel;
- Conducting a "Reality Check" for Multimedia Victoria about how sucessfully the public found information on Victorian Government websites;
- Bringing together the acclaimed melbourne.org website - a collaboration between Multimedia Victoria, the City of Melbourne, Melbourne Convention and Marketing Bureau, Tourism Victoria, The Committee forMelbourne and Major Events;
- In 2006 project managing the Commonwealth-funded EasyBiz pilot program - designed to redefine the way businesses interact with Victorian local government online; and
- Designing and project-managing the award-winning FoodSmart program - which resulted in savings of up to $5000 for food retailers.