I have been looking through the results of Euroblog 2007, a survey of 409 PR professionals from 24 european countries asking how they use and perceive social media (called “social software” in the survey).
The results of the survey started me thinking about how social media is fundamentally changing our profession. It is, however, not just [...]
February 27, 2007 – 2:31 pm
I posted last year about microformats and the social media release, as an introduction to developments in this space and how microformats have the potential to radically alter the way that we produce, publish and syndicate content across the government namespace.
Rather than just comment from the sidelines, I thought I would prepare and publish a [...]
February 19, 2007 – 8:52 am
If you have worked through your communications strategy, evaluated all of your options and channels and the most appropriate course of action is a social media solution (blog, wiki or podcast), then here are some points that you may want to consider before you rush off and launch.
Please note, I am only covering corporate [...]
February 16, 2007 – 1:05 pm
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 [...]
February 1, 2007 – 4:02 pm
I posted before Chrsitmas about the launch of the new websites for the Herald and the Dominion Post. At the time I focussed on the fact that Fairfax, in keeping with their strategy for their Australian papers, had not implemented RSS feeds on the site. I charitably described it this way:
Smart move. Why would you [...]
December 13, 2006 – 1:39 pm
There has been quite a bit of discussion in the blogosphere about the social media release and its subsequent adoption by some of the big PR firms. And, as some agencies here are starting to use microformatted information in other applications, I thought it might be interesting to look at what these standards mean for [...]
By Jason Ryan
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Also posted in Communications, Web standards, social media
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Tagged data, government, govt2.0, hcal, hcard, hrelease, microformats, pr, rss, social media, social media release
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December 7, 2006 – 10:35 am
Late last week Gallup launched their Worldwide Corruption Index, a poll ranking 101 countries according to perceptions of corruption in business and government. New Zealand ranks equal second with Denmark, behind the squeaky-clean Finns.
This comes on the heels of Transparency International’s assessment of NZ as equal first in their annual Corruption Perceptions Index, this time [...]
November 13, 2006 – 12:05 pm
I have just finished reading a white paper on Social Media written by Trevor Cook and Lee Hopkins. It is a very good introduction to how new media is changing our working environment.
What really got me, however, was a quote in the front of the paper that, given my recent comments about reputation management [here [...]
November 1, 2006 – 3:28 pm
The last couple of posts have been about new media, so I thought I would mix it up a bit by having a look at a more traditional approach to public affairs. South Australia’s Aboriginal Drug and Alcohol Council have issued a set of playing cards, under a campaign titled Don’t Gamble with Your Health.
I [...]
October 28, 2006 – 3:30 pm
What is it about these two (relatively, particularly in the case of blogging - Blogger was launched in 2000) new media that is causing such fundamental changes to the environment in which we operate? And, more importantly, how will these changes manifest in the public sector environment?
If you are still feeling your way around the [...]
