This post began as a review of how well government websites are doing making their content available to mobile devices. I had looked at this in February last year, and had hoped that over those 12 months we might have seen an improvement. These hopes proved, as you might guess, somewhat optimistic. This exercise did, [...]
By Jason Ryan
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Posted in Communications, Technology, Web standards
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Also tagged everyblock, govt2.0, holovaty, mashup, microformats, mobile, public value, search, semantic, strategy
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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 [...]
Let’s assume that you have a new project in your agency that requires thorough and structured (internal) communications. When you are writing up your communications strategy, how do you sell senior management on the idea of a blog as one of the key channels? What arguments can you bring to bear that might persuade them [...]
There has been quite a bit of discussion in the blogosphere since Tim O’Reilly published his draft Blogger Code of Conduct, and – apart from the incredibly naff logo – with good reason. (On the logo, though, do you think that a sheriff’s badge is really the right sort of image that bloggers would want [...]
The State Services Commission today released the new version of the New Zealand Government Web Standards, version 1.0. The new standards draw heavily upon the previous document, the Web Guidelines v2.1, however there are some significant differences that should be of interest to public sector communicators who have responsibility for creating and maintaining web content.
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March 12, 2007 – 11:37 am
On Thursday 1 and Friday 2 of March, the Network hosted the first full-day workshops for members, on Strategic Crisis Communications. To facilitate these workshops, we asked Kym and Dick Lynch from Lynch Communications to come over from Melbourne and share their knowledge and considerable expertise with us.
Before I get into my impressions of the [...]
February 8, 2007 – 2:50 pm
Before the conference last year one of the members (thanks Susie) floated the idea of setting up a series of smaller groups, self-selected, devoted to particular areas of expertise or interest in public sector communications. I thought it was an excellent idea but, during the run up to the day, it sort of got lost [...]
December 20, 2006 – 11:29 am
Well, we have made it. The final couple of days of the year to run out and then we are launching into 2007. I am guessing that, as is usually the case for comms people, most of you have staggered through the last quarter of the year, trying to stave off burnout and [...]
