Monthly Archives: December 2007

Turkey? Or ham? Both, methinks…

December 19, 2007 – 2:50 pm

Having finally arrived at the last couple of working days of what has been, without too much of an understatement, a pretty tough year I am only too happy to fulfill my obligations to those few loyal readers and send you off towards the break with a little light entertainment.
Once a decade or so, you [...]

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Online reputation management

December 16, 2007 – 7:15 pm

Andy Oram wrote a post on Friday that triggered some thoughts of my own about reputation management, and how public sector communicators can approach this issue. Oram attended a Yale symposium on Reputation Economies in Cyberspace and has since been providing thorough coverage and analysis.
What I found interesting about his first post (he has posted [...]

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Govt 2.0 and public value

December 9, 2007 – 5:52 pm

For two days earlier this week I was at the Online Social Networking conference in Sydney, the highlight of which was a terrific presentation by Seb Chan from the Powerhouse Museum.
Seb’s presentation, with the rather meandering title, A brief introduction to web 2.0 for government and non-profits: a perspective from the cultural sector included a [...]

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Censoring social media

December 2, 2007 – 3:27 pm

Some of you may have seen the post a couple of weeks ago on TechCrunch that caused a fair amount of comment and controversy in the blogosphere. The Secret Strategies Behind Many “Viral” Videos was a spectacularly ill-advised and unintentionally revealing account of one marketer’s techniques for placing client videos in prominent spots on the [...]

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