Category Archives: Social media

5 principles for Govt 2.0

April 29, 2007 – 7:46 pm

Che Tibby’s great post this week about how government can/should interact with people via the Internet, Free on the Range, throws up some very interesting issues and, for me, some questions about what it is we mean when we talk about Govt 2.0 (government in the Web 2.0 age).
Given that Web 2.0 is a term [...]

By Jason Ryan | Also posted in Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (28)

Social media and your CV

April 22, 2007 – 2:02 pm

There has been quite a bit of discussion in the blogosphere over the last fortnight about the blog as the new CV. It was started by a post by Adam Darowski, The Blog is the New Resume and subsequently picked up by Joshua Porter, who expanded upon the idea.
These posts are both well worth reading, [...]

By Jason Ryan | Also posted in Communications, Reputation management | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (10)

Gartner on Web2.0 & Government

April 16, 2007 – 2:51 pm

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, [...]

By Jason Ryan | Also posted in Editorial, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (2)

Reputation mismanagement: automated social media

April 4, 2007 – 9:21 pm

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 [...]

By Jason Ryan | Also posted in Reputation management, Technology | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (6)

Pimpin’ government: social marketing & youth

April 1, 2007 – 2:03 pm

One of the hardest aspects of coming to terms with the changes that social media are bringing to our working environment, particularly for public sector communicators, is exercising the sort of judgement that ensures the tools are deployed appropriately and support the overall communications and business objectives.
While in Australia this week, I came across a [...]

By Jason Ryan | Also posted in Communications, Public affairs | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

How social media is changing public affairs

March 29, 2007 – 6:52 pm

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 [...]

By Jason Ryan | Also posted in Communications, Public affairs | Tagged , , , , | Comments (2)

Talkback and social media

March 27, 2007 – 12:53 pm

Graeme Turner, an Australian academic, has recently published his findings of a three-year research project into the world of Australian talkback radio. Reading about the report (it is only available via subscription), it occurred to me that Turner’s insights into talkback radio have some relevance to those of us thinking about the implications of social [...]

By Jason Ryan | Also posted in Communications | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Public sector comms hacks

March 18, 2007 – 9:06 am

Over the last couple of weeks I have had a couple of unrelated conversations with friends working in different agencies about ways to make the most of the social media tools that are becoming crucial to the way we work. Then yesterday, Colin McKay, on the recently launched SoSaidThe.Organization (more on this site below), made [...]

By Jason Ryan | Also posted in Communications, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (2)

Can we trust Wikipedia?

March 8, 2007 – 3:47 pm

News broke yesterday that one of the editors of the site was not the prominent theologian that he claimed, but was in fact a simple university student. It seems people are outraged that the editor, who claimed to be a Professor of Philosophy at a private university, faked his PhD.
Not only were his qualifications bogus [...]

By Jason Ryan | Also posted in Communications, Technology | Tagged , , | Comments (3)

Microformats & the govt media release [beta]

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 [...]

By Jason Ryan | Also posted in Public affairs, Web standards | Tagged , , , | Comments (14)