Che Tibby’s great post this week about how government can/should interact with people via the Internet, Free on the Range, throws up some very interesting issues and, for me, some questions about what it is we mean when we talk about Govt 2.0 (government in the Web 2.0 age).
Given that Web 2.0 is a term [...]
April 25, 2007 – 12:36 pm
This video is from a couple of years back (2005), but it is still a great example of a campaign executed with flair and humour. I laugh every time I watch this (and not just because I am Australian). What does it have to do with ANZAC day? Not much, really. The ad was originally [...]
There has been quite a bit of discussion in the blogosphere over the last fortnight about the blog as the new CV. It was started by a post by Adam Darowski, The Blog is the New Resume and subsequently picked up by Joshua Porter, who expanded upon the idea.
These posts are both well worth reading, [...]
At the beginning of March Gartner published a brief paper, titled ‘What Does Web 2.0 Mean to Government (no link: subscription required), that included some significant observations about our future operating environment, and it set me thinking about what this will mean for the public sector in big-picture terms.
Before we get to the report itself, [...]
By Jason Ryan
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Posted in Editorial, Technology, social media
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Tagged gartner, government, microformats, o'reilly, open source, public sector, semantic web, structured data, web2.0
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There has been quite a bit of discussion in the blogosphere since Tim O’Reilly published his draft Blogger Code of Conduct, and – apart from the incredibly naff logo – with good reason. (On the logo, though, do you think that a sheriff’s badge is really the right sort of image that bloggers would want [...]
Every once in a while you come across an idea or a product that is so obviously the result of unimaginable hours of hard work and intellectual brilliance completely detached from any semblance of reality. When I read this story in the Sydney Morning Herald, I had to check the dateline a couple of times [...]
One of the hardest aspects of coming to terms with the changes that social media are bringing to our working environment, particularly for public sector communicators, is exercising the sort of judgement that ensures the tools are deployed appropriately and support the overall communications and business objectives.
While in Australia this week, I came across a [...]
