ANZAC day is the one public holiday that, for me, conjures a sense of what could almost pass for reverence.
I can’t think of anything more eloquent, or more appropriate, than this poem by the late John Forbes.
Anzac Day
A certain cast to their features marked
the English going into battle, & then, that
glint in the Frenchman’s eye [...]
This week it is your opportunity to put the social in social media
When I started this blog, there were two primary reasons that drove me to the keyboard week in and week out and, after a period of reflection, I have decided that I haven’t been at all successful in the second. And while I [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This video is from a couple of years back (2005), but it is still a great example of a campaign executed with flair and humour. I laugh every time I watch this (and not just because I am Australian). What does it have to do with ANZAC day? Not much, really. The ad was originally [...]
At the beginning of March Gartner published a brief paper, titled ‘What Does Web 2.0 Mean to Government (no link: subscription required), that included some significant observations about our future operating environment, and it set me thinking about what this will mean for the public sector in big-picture terms.
Before we get to the report itself, [...]
Allan Jenkin’s posted earlier in the week about a Swedish journalist cautioned for comments made on his private blog. What is interesting about this case is that the journalist is an employee of Swedish State Radio (Sveriges Radio), ie., he is a public servant.
I don’t pretend to know anything about the governance arrangements of the [...]
Before the conference last year one of the members (thanks Susie) floated the idea of setting up a series of smaller groups, self-selected, devoted to particular areas of expertise or interest in public sector communications. I thought it was an excellent idea but, during the run up to the day, it sort of got lost [...]
Well, we have made it. The final couple of days of the year to run out and then we are launching into 2007. I am guessing that, as is usually the case for comms people, most of you have staggered through the last quarter of the year, trying to stave off burnout and [...]
