Monthly Archives: January 2007

Hard lessons in social media

January 26, 2007 – 11:38 am

This week has been a hard one for the New Zealand public sector as it comes to terms with social media. The furore over the blog critical of Child, Youth and Family Services (part of the Ministry of Social Development) has highlighted how much all of us, as public sector communicators, need to learn to [...]

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Strategic Crisis Communications workshop

January 23, 2007 – 2:49 pm

As I mentioned late last year, the Network is hosting the first (of what we hope will be many) one-day workshop for members, on Strategic Crisis Communications.
You indicated in your feedback about the inaugural conference that you wanted more intensive, interactive professional development opportunities, so the Committee have begun putting together a programme of workshops [...]

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Scoop goes social

January 19, 2007 – 12:48 pm

Russell Brown mentioned in his Listener column this week that Scoop have a social news site up. So I went in and snuck a peek. Bearing in mind that this is still in alpha, which means that there is still probably a good deal of work to be done to customize and refine the site, [...]

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