November 18, 2007 – 7:44 pm
When I first posted about the principles for public sector social media, sovereignty was the first of the ten principles I discussed because, once you have decided that you need to incorporate social media into your communications plan, the next most important decision is where you host the project. The answer at the time was, [...]
November 11, 2007 – 2:56 pm
I have been wondering why it is that we are all working ourselves into early graves trying to transform government, the achievement of which will largely be driven by Internet based technologies, and yet we continue to disclaim the content we post to our websites?
It strikes me as being analogous to saying to someone who [...]
November 4, 2007 – 2:28 pm
Demos and the Victorian State Services Authority have embarked on a project to explore the concept of agile government. The first product of this collaboration was what they described as a provocation paper, released in September, and called – as you might expect – agile government PDF [238 KB].
The focus of the project is to [...]
October 13, 2007 – 4:10 pm
The volume of content on government websites is rapidly, and in some cases has already, outstripping the ability of conventional navigation and information architecture to make that content easily discoverable. When you pause to think that most government sites are only a decade old and, if you also consider the rate of content growth, you [...]
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October 7, 2007 – 10:40 am
I have posted previously about arguments for social media and a business case for a blog. And while there is plenty of discussion about the ROI of blogging in particular and social media in general, for public sector communicators it is important that we understand what we are committing our organizations to when we launch [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Censoring social media
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 [...]