Category Archives: social media

Google’s Page Rank hiccup

October 28, 2007 – 8:18 pm

On Thursday morning I saw an interesting item in my feed reader from Darren Rowse at Problogger. The evening before, Darren had posted about his PageRank dropping from a 7 to a 4, in the space of a few hours. He was, naturally, concerned at this unexpected turn of events. As the story unfolded, it [...]

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The (real) cost of social media

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 [...]

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Social media and government consultation

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 [...]

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BarCamp and Govt 2.0

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 [...]

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Media monitoring and blogs

September 16, 2007 – 11:27 am

It was with some delight, tempered by wry amusement, that I opened the PDF forwarded on by a colleague this week that announced a new service launched by Chong Newztel, the media monitoring firm. From the end of this month they are going to be monitoring the blogosphere as well as traditional media.
Why delight? Announcements [...]

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BBC goes social: some lessons for govt

September 6, 2007 – 6:49 pm

The BBC introduced social bookmarking options for all of its news website pages last month. Not a startling move in itself; as one of the editors noted in his blog, they are following the lead of some fairly large media organisations, notably the New York Times and the Washington Post. Oddly, despite me blogging about [...]

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Social media and degrees of control

September 1, 2007 – 2:23 pm

On a recent edition of their excellent podcast, Inside PR, Terry Fallis and David Jones suggested five questions that you would want to ask your PR agency before you signed them to help you out with a social media campaign or project. I would recommend that you listen to the whole show, but to cut [...]

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Public sector blogging toolbox

August 26, 2007 – 8:05 pm

You have got the go-ahead to trial a blog within your organization after winning management over with your business case for a blog, and now you are down to the implementation. What are the sorts of tools (hardware and software) that you will need to make this thing work?
Before you begin downloading, installing and customising, [...]

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Wikipedia and public sector edits

August 19, 2007 – 12:35 pm

The blogosphere has been running hot this week with posts about a tool that allows you to track all of an organization’s edits of particular Wikipedia pages.
The data-mining tool, WikiScanner, which compiles and mashes up information that has always been available, matches IP addresses with the edits stored in the history pages in Wikipedia. The [...]

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BarCamp comes to Wellington

August 13, 2007 – 8:42 pm

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, BarCamp is coming to the Shaky Isles. The inaugural New Zealand BarCamp unconference is going to be held in Wellington on Saturday, September 15. The theme of the event is loosely based around the concept of Govt 2.0; loosely because it is really up to whoever shows up on the day [...]

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