Monthly Archives: August 2007

Public sector blogging toolbox

August 26, 2007 – 8:05 pm

You have got the go-ahead to trial a blog within your organization after winning management over with your business case for a blog, and now you are down to the implementation. What are the sorts of tools (hardware and software) that you will need to make this thing work?
Before you begin downloading, installing and customising, [...]

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Wikipedia and public sector edits

August 19, 2007 – 12:35 pm

The blogosphere has been running hot this week with posts about a tool that allows you to track all of an organization’s edits of particular Wikipedia pages.
The data-mining tool, WikiScanner, which compiles and mashes up information that has always been available, matches IP addresses with the edits stored in the history pages in Wikipedia. The [...]

By Jason Ryan | Posted in Reputation management, social media | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (3)

BarCamp comes to Wellington

August 13, 2007 – 8:42 pm

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, BarCamp is coming to the Shaky Isles. The inaugural New Zealand BarCamp unconference is going to be held in Wellington on Saturday, September 15. The theme of the event is loosely based around the concept of Govt 2.0; loosely because it is really up to whoever shows up on the day [...]

By Jason Ryan | Posted in Editorial, Events, social media | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (2)

Blogging and your media policy

August 5, 2007 – 5:40 pm

It is almost inevitable that, right now, there are at least a couple of people in your agency running their own blogs. It is also a pretty safe bet to assume that if you open up your agency’s media policy, you won’t find anything in there about blogging. The policy will be very specific about [...]

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