Monthly Archives: May 2007

Eraser Inc, Part 2

May 26, 2007 – 1:16 pm

I posted about ReputationDefender in November last year, a startup whose mission was to remove potentially embarassing content from the web so that you could protect your online reputation.
At the time the company launched their services were confined to asking companies to take down the offensive material but, it seems they have (in true [...]

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Channel selection: comms & the Internet

May 20, 2007 – 4:01 pm

My experience over the last two or three years in New Zealand government has taught me that one of the biggest hurdles that public sector communicators face is convincing senior management of the seismic shift in the public affairs function that the Internet is causing. All too often we encounter attitudes like, Yeah, but it’s [...]

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GOVIS 2007

May 13, 2007 – 4:53 pm

The last three days of last week were taken up by the 2007 GOVIS conference, this year the theme being Innovation in IT. And yes, there was quite a lot of focus on Web 2.0 and what it means for government here in New Zealand. There was even a bit of discussion about the role [...]

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Social media: the numbers

May 5, 2007 – 4:43 pm

A lot of the (offline) feedback I have been getting about this blog has been along the lines of, “why are you so obsessed with social media?” And it is a fair question. There are plenty of other areas of public affairs that I could post about that would probably be of more interest to [...]

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