February 27, 2007 – 2:31 pm
I posted last year about microformats and the social media release, as an introduction to developments in this space and how microformats have the potential to radically alter the way that we produce, publish and syndicate content across the government namespace.
Rather than just comment from the sidelines, I thought I would prepare and publish a [...]
February 23, 2007 – 9:23 am
The excellent Read/WriteWeb (a blog that anyone interested in communications and technology should be reading daily) is running coverage of the Future of Web Apps 2007 Conference in London, and yesterday in their post one line really made me stop. Under the section entitled ‘The Mobile Web’ they note that:
A very interesting fact that is [...]
February 19, 2007 – 8:52 am
If you have worked through your communications strategy, evaluated all of your options and channels and the most appropriate course of action is a social media solution (blog, wiki or podcast), then here are some points that you may want to consider before you rush off and launch.
Please note, I am only covering corporate [...]
February 16, 2007 – 1:05 pm
Allan Jenkin’s posted earlier in the week about a Swedish journalist cautioned for comments made on his private blog. What is interesting about this case is that the journalist is an employee of Swedish State Radio (Sveriges Radio), ie., he is a public servant.
I don’t pretend to know anything about the governance arrangements of the [...]
February 12, 2007 – 7:38 pm
The TimesOnline ran a story last Friday, Fake bloggers soon to be ‘named and shamed’, heralding the passing into law of a EU directive that bans sockpuppetry.
And while I have to admit that this is admirable in its intent, I really am struggling to come to terms with how on earth they are going to [...]
February 10, 2007 – 11:42 am
I thought John Keys’ decision to visit Waitangi dressed not in the expected suit, but in the very unexpected – a T-shirt (black, with a green tiki on it) – was a clever move. Doing away with the pin-stripe and tie for a day, and instead wearing clothes more typical of an “everyday Kiwi” [...]
February 8, 2007 – 2:50 pm
Before the conference last year one of the members (thanks Susie) floated the idea of setting up a series of smaller groups, self-selected, devoted to particular areas of expertise or interest in public sector communications. I thought it was an excellent idea but, during the run up to the day, it sort of got lost [...]
February 2, 2007 – 3:32 pm
Yesterdays post about social tools in newspapers got me thinking about the prevalence of RSS feeds in the government namespace. I was saying that RSS was now mainstream and that it was only a matter of time before all our feed stats were going through the roof. Mmm, not quite.
I did a quick whip around [...]
February 1, 2007 – 4:02 pm
I posted before Chrsitmas about the launch of the new websites for the Herald and the Dominion Post. At the time I focussed on the fact that Fairfax, in keeping with their strategy for their Australian papers, had not implemented RSS feeds on the site. I charitably described it this way:
Smart move. Why would you [...]
