Monthly Archives: September 2007

Review: Inside Spin

September 30, 2007 – 12:05 pm

Investigative journalist Bob Burton’s book Inside Spin, subtitled The dark underbelly of the PR industry, is an impressively researched look at the machinations of (principally Australian) PR practitioners – or, based upon the appallingly unethical behaviour he chronicles, what you would hope to be a very small subset thereof…
Fellow journalist, and onetime collaborator, New Zealander [...]

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Social media and government consultation

September 26, 2007 – 11:58 am

For those of us who are watching how governments begin to engage with social media, it has been a particularly active week. Colin McKay at the Canadian Office of the Privacy Commissioner has launched an official blog and there has been a bit of activity here in the antipodes as well.
Police wiki
First, as part of [...]

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BarCamp and Govt 2.0

September 23, 2007 – 12:31 pm

I attended two conferences over the course of the last week, each providing very different perspectives of the same fundamental issue: what does Govt 2.0 look like, and how well are we placed to get there from here?
The first was BarCamp Wellington, where 50-odd people from all parts of the country gave up a Saturday [...]

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Media monitoring and blogs

September 16, 2007 – 11:27 am

It was with some delight, tempered by wry amusement, that I opened the PDF forwarded on by a colleague this week that announced a new service launched by Chong Newztel, the media monitoring firm. From the end of this month they are going to be monitoring the blogosphere as well as traditional media.
Why delight? Announcements [...]

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Dominion Post goes digital

September 9, 2007 – 4:46 pm

The Dominion Post, the Wellington morning newspaper, has launched a digital edition, currently available to paper subscribers for a 3 month trial or to the merely curious for a 7 day preview. This offering comes less than a year after Fairfax (the parent company) redeveloped the Stuff website, a redevelopment I was less than enthused [...]

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BBC goes social: some lessons for govt

September 6, 2007 – 6:49 pm

The BBC introduced social bookmarking options for all of its news website pages last month. Not a startling move in itself; as one of the editors noted in his blog, they are following the lead of some fairly large media organisations, notably the New York Times and the Washington Post. Oddly, despite me blogging about [...]

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Social media and degrees of control

September 1, 2007 – 2:23 pm

On a recent edition of their excellent podcast, Inside PR, Terry Fallis and David Jones suggested five questions that you would want to ask your PR agency before you signed them to help you out with a social media campaign or project. I would recommend that you listen to the whole show, but to cut [...]

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