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We first have a complimentary meeting with you to understand where your business is at, where your competitors are, and develop a plan to move forward. We follow this step with further target market research, craft branding and messaging, and construct a solid social media content plan. From that you'll get a lead funnel to guide your client's target market towards conversion. We then can help your wellness coaching business rank higher in search engine results and increase the targeted visitors to your online course/seminar sign-up page by conducting a website audit and blog content strategy while fully optimizing and maintaining your website. We're here to develop a social media strategy that is tailored to your business. We set up and/or optimize your social media profiles, create and distribute high quality content for all your channels, and we also take care of the analytics and tracking, so you can get back to your business with a peace of mind. We offer a comprehensive AI Consulting Service through a number of integration strategy sessions. The aim is to save your business time and money by helping you navigate the complex world of AI and find solutions that work for you. We help you to build your wellness brand and authority on social media through customised social media coaching sessions. We understand, that as a highly competent coach working in the wellness space, you don't have the time to work out social media tasks on your own. We save you and your business time and effort. Our goal is not only to help you develop your brand and fill course or seminar seats, but to empower you to thrive even after you have worked with us. We can provide ongoing coaching calls to help you continue to develop great courses for your clients and maintain your authoritative brand on your social channels and your website.

14/09/2026

This morning Ahron Young and I chatted about two news headlines on Ticker.
Both came back to the same issue: laws stop at borders, and technology does not.

On the calls to slow down AI development:

The platforms themselves are now saying safety research cannot keep up with what is coming next.

What spooked them:
OpenAI tested an agent in a sandbox. It broke out and hacked into another site
Anthropic had a model detect a software vulnerability never discovered before

The worry is these systems go looking for those weaknesses elsewhere.

Everyday people do not get to see what is happening inside the labs.
Ahron made a fair point though.
Anyone using AI daily knows it still makes plenty of mistakes.

What is being proposed is frontier model leaders being open with each other, and governments worldwide coordinating.

The race to AGI is on and the money involved is enormous.
Governments move glacially.
Some of these companies are worth more than entire nations.

On Tesco and the fake casino ads:

pages built to look like they came from Tesco.
A bank involved too. Sporting celebrities apparently used to endorse an online casino that is illegal in the UK.

Meta only took them down after the Guardian investigated.

Why scammers target trusted brands:
Trust online takes a very long time to build. Why start from nothing when you can borrow a brand that already has it?

Tesco called the police. The operator sits offshore.
Very hard to penalise a company under UK law when it is not in the UK.
Shut up shop, reopen elsewhere, try again.

The part that gets less attention:
This damages the brands doing the right thing.

Legitimate businesses are paying the price for scams they had nothing to do with.

Cutting through is about to get much harder.

University of the

07/09/2026

AI Political Ads in Victoria. Age Checks for ChatGPT in Europe.
This morning Ahron Young and I chatted about two news headlines on Ticker.

Both came back to the same question: do we regulate the technology, and/or provide greater education about how it works and what the risks are?

On AI-generated political ads in Victoria:

Less than 100 days out from the election, videos are circulating showing situations that never occurred.

The groups behind them are not officially linked to any political party.
We don't know who is funding them.

The extreme versions travel furthest.
People share what confirms what they already suspect.

The detection problem now runs both ways.
Sometimes content is real and looks fake. That confusion is its own kind of damage.

Some countries require creators to flag AI-generated content and penalise platforms that fail to enforce it.
Here it remains a grey area. Ads from parties get scrutinised.
Ads from unnamed bodies do not.

On the European Union's tougher rules:

ChatGPT, Roblox and Reddit have been brought under the bloc's strictest online safety obligations. Age verification, private-by-default accounts, changes to how content is recommended to children.

There have been genuinely tragic outcomes involving young people and AI chatbots. The concern behind these rules is real.

Once platforms build age assurance for Europe, it becomes much harder to argue it cannot be done anywhere else. Singapore is already reading it that way.

The practical question is how.
Social media platforms have not managed age verification well so far.

My position:
Restriction alone does not teach anyone anything.

Young people need to understand how these systems work, where the risks sit, and how to use them well and ethically.

Regulating something does not stop people accessing it. It just stops the conversation about how to use it properly.

University of the Sunshine Coast Dharana Digital

Many organisations are focused on how to adopt AI.Far fewer are thinking about how to govern it.As AI becomes part of ev...
31/08/2026

Many organisations are focused on how to adopt AI.

Far fewer are thinking about how to govern it.

As AI becomes part of everyday work, businesses need clear guidelines around approved use, data privacy, verification, accountability and risk management.

Without those guardrails, the risks can quickly outweigh the benefits.

This quote comes from Dr Karen Sutherland's latest article, A Practical Guide to Reducing AI Inaccuracies in Your Work, which explores the risks of relying on AI outputs without proper oversight.

If you're looking at how AI is being used in your organisation and want to understand the risks, opportunities and next steps, book a AI Strategy Call with Dr Karen using this link.

https://calendly.com/drkarendharanadigital/start-now-dharana-strategy-call?month=2026-08

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AI can sound incredibly convincing.That doesn't mean it's always right.In our latest blog, Dr Karen Sutherland looks at ...
27/08/2026

AI can sound incredibly convincing.

That doesn't mean it's always right.

In our latest blog, Dr Karen Sutherland looks at why AI inaccuracies happen, the risks of relying on AI outputs without checking them, and a practical three-stage process for reducing errors in your work.

As Dr. Karen puts it, beware of the "articulate idiot."

Well written does not always mean correct.

Read the full article for practical steps you can build into your AI workflow.
https://dharanadigital.com/post/reduce-ai-hallucinations


Still time to register!Our free AI for Event Planning webinar is happening today.Join Dharana Digital Director, Dr Karen...
24/08/2026

Still time to register!

Our free AI for Event Planning webinar is happening today.

Join Dharana Digital Director, Dr Karen Sutherland, for three practical demos showing how AI can take some of the fiddly, time-consuming parts of event planning off your plate.

You’ll see what AI can help with, which tools suit different tasks, and where human judgement still needs to sit.

Can’t make it live? Register anyway and we’ll send you the recording.

Register here:
https://streamyard.com/watch/KUEViaVuQH9j

24/08/2026

This morning Ahron Young and I chatted about two news headlines on Ticker.

Both came back to the same problem: we are building systems faster than we are building the accountability around them.

On AI agents spending your money:

You tell an agent to find something.
You tell it not to buy without your approval. It buys anyway.

The retailer sees a valid order. The payment service sees a valid charge.
The agent provider holds your instruction.
None of those records talk to each other.

Where it gets worse:

Agents are very good at finding blurry areas in your instructions and filling in the details themselves
Some websites carry hidden code designed to derail an agent and push it into making purchases
Returns policies were not written for this

"My AI agent did it" is not a returns policy.

On South Australia's royal commission into AI:

Peter Malinauskas went to Silicon Valley, photographed with Tim Cook at Apple Park, and came home and announced a royal commission.

Royal commissions do not happen overnight. The technology is moving rapidly. By the time the report lands, will it still describe the world we are in?

The education focus is worth watching. How students use AI without getting it to do the learning for them.

What I see in my own students:
The ones who struggle are not struggling because they used AI.
They did not engage with the material, so they could not prompt properly or tell right from wrong in the output.

You need to be the subject matter expert to use AI well.

Every government conversation right now is about what we can stop AI doing. Very little is about what we could harness.

Reducing the harm matters. So does building the capability.
We are only having one of those conversations.

University of the Sunshine Coast Dharana Digital

Event planning is a hundred small decisions, and most of them happen in your head before anyone else sees them.The date ...
20/08/2026

Event planning is a hundred small decisions, and most of them happen in your head before anyone else sees them.

The date that doesn't clash with everything else on the calendar. The numbers spread across four different spreadsheets. The room you can picture perfectly but cannot describe to the venue.

AI cannot run your event.

But it can take some of the fiddly, time-consuming parts off your plate.

AI for Event Planning is the topic of our next free 30-minute webinar, presented by Dharana Digital Director, Dr Karen Sutherland

In this practical session, Dr Karen will share practical ways to streamline those practices, with three live demos.

What you will walk away with:

- Three workflows you can use on your next event
- A clear sense of which tool suits which job
- The prompts that actually get you a useful result
- An understanding of where the human judgement still has to sit

DETAILS:
Date: Monday, 24 August
Time: 4pm AEST
This is a free event.

If you can't attend live, register anyway and we'll send you the recording afterwards.

Register here:
https://streamyard.com/watch/KUEViaVuQH9j

Missed our recent live webinar?You can now watch AI for Email on the Dharana Digital YouTube channel.In this practical 3...
17/08/2026

Missed our recent live webinar?

You can now watch AI for Email on the Dharana Digital YouTube channel.

In this practical 30-minute session, Dharana Digital Director Dr Karen Sutherland looks at how AI can help with some of the everyday challenges of managing email, from inbox triage and personalised replies to subject lines and send-time optimisation.

The aim is simple: use AI to make email easier, without turning your communication into corporate porridge.

This is the latest in our series of free monthly webinars, where Dr Karen explores practical ways businesses can use AI in their everyday work.

Watch the webinar here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK5MoC9SZRE

One of the themes throughout our recent AI for Email webinar was that AI works best when people continue to be involved....
13/08/2026

One of the themes throughout our recent AI for Email webinar was that AI works best when people continue to be involved.

Yes, AI can help you draft, review and refine your emails

But before you press send, remember that every email still represents you and your organisation.

As Dr Karen Sutherland (SFHEA) reminded attendees, "always add your human sparkle to it."

You can watch the latest Free AI Webinar - AI for Email on the Dharana Digital YouTube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ4dfXFbfZihgkgC9xuKh9aUQO_FWAc57

12/08/2026

Rogue Agents. Addictive Design. Two Industries Marking Their Own Homework.

This morning Ahron Young and I chatted about two news headlines on Ticker.

Both stories came back to the same question: who is actually checking?

On AI agents breaking out of their sandboxes:

OpenAI and Anthropic have both been called before United States lawmakers.

OpenAI was testing an autonomous agent in a sandbox. The agent broke out and went onto the internet to try and solve one of the tests it had been set.

Anthropic ran an assessment across roughly 141k+ tests and found three breaches where agents had done the same thing.

These two companies are the ones who told us.
There is no legislation requiring any of it.
OpenAI reported when they really did not have to.
We only know what we are told.

This has been the year of the autonomous agent.
They have been in development for a while. This is where they have hit their stride.

Remember when OpenClaw was released, and a Meta security expert posted that it had deleted all of her emails without her consent because it was trying to free up room?

The unpredictability is what has everyone concerned.

The real risk for businesses:
1. You give agents access to your emails
2. You give them your files
3. You give them your sensitive information

The upside is real. It gets to know you,
it becomes more relevant, it saves you time.

The trade-off is that you have handed sensitive information to something that can behave unpredictably.

That weighing up is the conversation most organisations have not had yet.

Governments want to stop AI causing harm. Meanwhile these companies have promised investors that AI will soon think like humans, so businesses will need fewer of them.

More testing at that frontier means more breaches. That is the direction of travel.

Closer to home:
South Australia has announced a royal commission into AI. Victoria will have a Minister for AI in Ben Carroll's new front bench.

The question I have is how any of them will know what is going on.

Industry and international standards exist. The legal side still has to catch up with the technology.

On the social media lawsuits:
More than 3,000 cases against Meta and other platforms have been allowed to proceed.

The critical detail is that they are not examining content. They are examining design.

How the platforms were built. How the algorithms surface content.
Why young people cannot put their phones down.

Where this could end up:
-Significant financial penalties
-Platforms forced to redesign with young people in mind
-Or more countries simply banning under-16s, which we already know is hard to enforce

The argument the platforms will run:
That the young people who struggled were struggling for other reasons too.

Ahron put it well. If there is a crack in the road and you fall in it, who is responsible? You for not seeing it, the council for not fixing it, or whoever made it?

Where does platform responsibility stop and parental supervision begin? That question will take a long time to answer in court.

Commentators who worked at Meta have said mental health experts emailed executives to flag concerns and were ignored. Allegedly.

If that evidence holds up, this stops being a debate about design philosophy and becomes a question about what the companies knew.

The theme running through both stories:
In each case, the people best placed to identify the harm were the ones building the product.

Transparency should not be optional.

University of the Sunshine Coast Dharana Digital

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