I have been looking through the results of Euroblog 2007, a survey of 409 PR professionals from 24 european countries asking how they use and perceive social media (called “social software” in the survey).
The results of the survey started me thinking about how social media is fundamentally changing our profession. It is, however, not just [...]
March 27, 2007 – 12:53 pm
Graeme Turner, an Australian academic, has recently published his findings of a three-year research project into the world of Australian talkback radio. Reading about the report (it is only available via subscription), it occurred to me that Turner’s insights into talkback radio have some relevance to those of us thinking about the implications of social [...]
The State Services Commission today released the new version of the New Zealand Government Web Standards, version 1.0. The new standards draw heavily upon the previous document, the Web Guidelines v2.1, however there are some significant differences that should be of interest to public sector communicators who have responsibility for creating and maintaining web content.
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Over the last couple of weeks I have had a couple of unrelated conversations with friends working in different agencies about ways to make the most of the social media tools that are becoming crucial to the way we work. Then yesterday, Colin McKay, on the recently launched SoSaidThe.Organization (more on this site below), made [...]
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March 15, 2007 – 12:36 pm
I have finally come across a copy of Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Government, 2006 (no link: subscription only). And while I am not a big fan of their literature – I find the hype cycle is too IT focussed and lacks a wider perspective – I thought that I might share a few (belated) observations [...]
March 12, 2007 – 11:37 am
On Thursday 1 and Friday 2 of March, the Network hosted the first full-day workshops for members, on Strategic Crisis Communications. To facilitate these workshops, we asked Kym and Dick Lynch from Lynch Communications to come over from Melbourne and share their knowledge and considerable expertise with us.
Before I get into my impressions of the [...]
News broke yesterday that one of the editors of the site was not the prominent theologian that he claimed, but was in fact a simple university student. It seems people are outraged that the editor, who claimed to be a Professor of Philosophy at a private university, faked his PhD.
Not only were his qualifications bogus [...]
So, after much pre-publicity, speculation and hype, we now have two new Internet portals in the New Zealand market. Last week both Xtra and Microsoft revealed their offerings. And, while I really doubt if anyone outside the relevant organisations cares that much, I thought I would have a quick look at both and pass on [...]
