Tag Archives: blogs

Blogging as a public servant

February 16, 2007 – 1:05 pm

Allan Jenkin’s posted earlier in the week about a Swedish journalist cautioned for comments made on his private blog. What is interesting about this case is that the journalist is an employee of Swedish State Radio (Sveriges Radio), ie., he is a public servant.
I don’t pretend to know anything about the governance arrangements of the [...]

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Replacing email

December 2, 2006 – 5:03 pm

If you accept the proposition that email is broken, (and if you don’t I would be interested to hear how it is working for you) then I thought that it might be worth exploring a few options for working around the problem.
The first thing to acknowledge is that, as much as we would like to [...]

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Blogging + Podcasting

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 [...]

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Astroturfing

October 18, 2006 – 2:17 pm

The font of all knowledge, well maybe not knowledge but certainly a wellspring of information, Wikipedia, has a page on Astroturfing that, given recent developments in the public affairs/communications space, is a must read.
Wikipedia defines astroturfing as:

formal public relations (PR) campaigns which seek to create the impression of being a spontaneous, grassroots behavior. Hence the [...]

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