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 [...]
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, [...]
I posted a couple of arguments for getting a blog up as an internal communications tool some weeks ago, Business case for a blog. However, as a blog is a content management system, there are any number of other ways to turn this tool to your communications needs.
Bob Conrad at The Good, the Bad, the [...]
I posted a couple of months ago about how the Internet was changing the way people source and consume media, and one of the arguments that I advanced then was that there was a process of (technological) natural selection at work; hence the name, Darwinism. And I concluded the argument with the following question, which [...]
I have posted once or twice in the past about the need for government agencies to ensure that, as digital natives start to flood into the workplace, the working environment in the public sector is not too dissimilar from the networked social environment that this generation (and any other early adopters of social media) are [...]
The UK Cabinet Office has just released an independent review it commissioned into the ways government can better enable the public to access and reuse its information. The Power of Information [PDF 280 KB], co-authored by the founder and director of mySociety – a charitable project that connects people with their governments and communities, [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
