Tag Archives: blogging

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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IBM report on blogging and government

June 30, 2007 – 12:32 pm

The IBM Center for the Business of Government has just issued a hefty report into blogging in government. The report, The Blogging Revolution: Government in the Age of Web 2.0 [PDF 7.2 MB], is an excellent primer for anyone who hasn’t really been exposed to social media and is wondering what all the fuss is [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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