Monthly Archives: June 2007

IBM report on blogging and government

June 30, 2007 – 12:32 pm

The IBM Center for the Business of Government has just issued a hefty report into blogging in government. The report, The Blogging Revolution: Government in the Age of Web 2.0 [PDF 7.2 MB], is an excellent primer for anyone who hasn’t really been exposed to social media and is wondering what all the fuss is [...]

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Cybrarians at the gate: digital natives and the public sector

June 23, 2007 – 1:19 pm

I have posted once or twice in the past about the need for government agencies to ensure that, as digital natives start to flood into the workplace, the working environment in the public sector is not too dissimilar from the networked social environment that this generation (and any other early adopters of social media) are [...]

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Business case for a blog

June 16, 2007 – 12:05 pm

Let’s assume that you have a new project in your agency that requires thorough and structured (internal) communications. When you are writing up your communications strategy, how do you sell senior management on the idea of a blog as one of the key channels? What arguments can you bring to bear that might persuade them [...]

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The value of government information

June 10, 2007 – 1:27 pm

The UK Cabinet Office has just released an independent review it commissioned into the ways government can better enable the public to access and reuse its information. The Power of Information [PDF 280 KB], co-authored by the founder and director of mySociety – a charitable project that connects people with their governments and communities, [...]

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Public relations & HTML

June 4, 2007 – 11:56 am

In the comments thread after the post on reputation management last week, Sam Farrow made some excellent points about search engine optimisation (SEO) and public sector communications. During the course of the conversation, I realised that this was a topic that needed its own post. Unfortunately, this isn’t it. Why? Because while composing that post, [...]

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