Comments on: Blog Open Week

By: Karen Jones

Karen Jones — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:30:53 +0000

Hi Jason

I am more a blog reader than a blog writer as you know but, echoing the contributor above, I appreciate the thought you put into your posts. I realised that I was falling behind when all my Crown entity comms team said they have Facebook pages (your points noted) so realise the need to upskill myself on the social media scene!

By: Natalie Ferguson

Natalie Ferguson — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 09:46:06 +0000

Hi Jason,

I have a web design company in Wellington called Decisive Flow We work with a lot of web 2.0 startups internationally helping the techie people make their websites super simple to use and help them market to the ever increasing wave of non-techie people who are getting excited about the internet. I Twitter, am on Linked In and Facebook and everything that they let me sign up to really…
On a side note, I really enjoy how much thought you put into your posts, I’m yet to read one I don’t get something out of.

By: Fergus Hogarth

Fergus Hogarth — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:44:49 +0000

Hi Jason and all, I work in the South Australian Government and am interested in all sorts of online things including where this world of social networking is headed and what can be applied in a bureaucracy. Before heading to SA I worked on the Queensland Government’s online engagement space. I have had a play with LinkedIn and am increasingly using YouTube and Picasa to send pics of the kids to my family interstate and elsewhere. I wonder if there are other Adelaide lurkers out there… if so, get in touch.

By: Miraz Jordan

Miraz Jordan — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:37:17 +0000

I'm a writer with a particular interest in technology and the Internet, where it's going, what's happening, and how that affects regular folks and also community groups. I'm involved with Webstock and Webguide, I write my own blog TiKouka, free weekly MacTips, and am one of the authors of WordPress 2 Visual QuickStart Guide (second edition being written now). Oh, yes: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn. I have other profiles, such as Flickr, but most are because I need to know about such things rather than because I really use them.

By: Nicholas O'Flaherty

Nicholas O'Flaherty — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 01:26:42 +0000

Greetings Jason, at Bullet PR we made a decision some time ago to upskill ourselves considerably on social media. As a result we have been able to deliver a number of online projects for clients. These include the Life Insurance blog for Pinnacle Life; the Digital Future Summit blog for the MED before the event in November; this CEO blog for AIM Proximity; the Waitangi Day site for Maori Television's live billboard with web cam, including assisting with the moderation of comments; and we have rebuilt our own site which includes rss feeds for news updates. There are a few other exciting social media initiatives we are currently working on - I will keep you posted. Thanks for the invitation Jason. I have been reading and admiring your blog for a long time - I promise to be a little more active with the comments! Cheers

By: Nick Cowie

Nick Cowie — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:40:00 +0000

Ok I work for the State Library of Western Australia I consider myself more of a public service web geek than a public service communicator. I blog, try and promote gov use of web2.0 which is a little hard in Oz and I am an bit of a social media junkie and use twitter too much.

By: Sam Farrow

Sam Farrow — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:55:56 +0000

Hi Jason, I also think this is a great idea. I work for NZPA, managing the New Media Business. I have worked with the web since forever, but have always found myself on the old media side of the fence. This has meant I have had a top down approach to the web, as opposed to a more consensus social media bottom up view. I guess I have always favoured the illusion of control. I have promised myself this year to blog at pellacor.com - and have a history of comments and the occassional post at Metafilter dating back to 2002. My view of the webs changed during 2007 as I was exposed to social media ideas here and experienced an epithany during a presentation given by Thomas Scovell last November. Previously I had considered social changes are being driven soley by enabling technology (I have tried to find my comment here to that effect, to no avail); but now understand we live in a time of social change and emergent social phenomina independent of the network structure they sit atop of.

By: Mark Harris

Mark Harris — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:51:38 +0000

I know where you live. Your daughter is named after my cat.

By: Tim Jones

Tim Jones — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 03:00:04 +0000

I work for Webstruxure, a Wellington web application development company. We've developed sites and applications for Government agencies including Land Transport New Zealand (Fuelsaver and Rightcar) and Immigration Appeals Authorities. We also make a range of products for web designers. I blog for Webstruxure on our products and other matters we're interested in, such as Government procurement policies - see Small is Beautiful and Dangerous Enthusiasms.

By: Ryan Kennedy

Ryan Kennedy — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:40:39 +0000

Hi Jason, I’m too outspoken to blog so I still use friends-only livejournal so I can stay employed. Still vaguely peeved you never replied to my last email.