There has been quite a bit of discussion in the blogosphere since Tim O’Reilly published his draft Blogger Code of Conduct, and – apart from the incredibly naff logo – with good reason. (On the logo, though, do you think that a sheriff’s badge is really the right sort of image that bloggers would want [...]
Every once in a while you come across an idea or a product that is so obviously the result of unimaginable hours of hard work and intellectual brilliance completely detached from any semblance of reality. When I read this story in the Sydney Morning Herald, I had to check the dateline a couple of times [...]
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 12, 2007 – 7:38 pm
The TimesOnline ran a story last Friday, Fake bloggers soon to be ‘named and shamed’, heralding the passing into law of a EU directive that bans sockpuppetry.
And while I have to admit that this is admirable in its intent, I really am struggling to come to terms with how on earth they are going to [...]
January 26, 2007 – 11:38 am
This week has been a hard one for the New Zealand public sector as it comes to terms with social media. The furore over the blog critical of Child, Youth and Family Services (part of the Ministry of Social Development) has highlighted how much all of us, as public sector communicators, need to learn to [...]
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 8, 2006 – 7:06 pm
Wired magazine has reported on a new startup, called ReputationDefender (note the lack of a space between the two words, a sure sign that this company is certified Web 2.0™), whose mission in life is to:
…act on your behalf by contacting data hosting services and requesting the removal of any materials that threaten your good [...]
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 [...]
