Tag Archives: government

Gartner’s Government Hype Cycle

I have finally come across a copy of Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Government, 2006 (no link: subscription only). And while I am not a big fan of their literature – I find the hype cycle is too IT focussed and lacks a wider perspective – I thought that I might share a few (belated) observations [...]

mobile.govt.nz?

The excellent Read/WriteWeb (a blog that anyone interested in communications and technology should be reading daily) is running coverage of the Future of Web Apps 2007 Conference in London, and yesterday in their post one line really made me stop. Under the section entitled ‘The Mobile Web’ they note that:

A very interesting fact that is [...]

RSS in the government namespace

Yesterdays post about social tools in newspapers got me thinking about the prevalence of RSS feeds in the government namespace. I was saying that RSS was now mainstream and that it was only a matter of time before all our feed stats were going through the roof. Mmm, not quite.
I did a quick whip around [...]

Hard lessons in social media

This week has been a hard one for the New Zealand public sector as it comes to terms with social media. The furore over the blog critical of Child, Youth and Family Services (part of the Ministry of Social Development) has highlighted how much all of us, as public sector communicators, need to learn to [...]

Scoop goes social

Russell Brown mentioned in his Listener column this week that Scoop have a social news site up. So I went in and snuck a peek. Bearing in mind that this is still in alpha, which means that there is still probably a good deal of work to be done to customize and refine the site, [...]

Microformats and the social media release

There has been quite a bit of discussion in the blogosphere about the social media release and its subsequent adoption by some of the big PR firms. And, as some agencies here are starting to use microformatted information in other applications, I thought it might be interesting to look at what these standards mean for [...]

RSS and the web

Russell Brown said, during his talk last Friday - and I am paraphrasing because, unlike the more diligent among you, I wasn’t taking notes (if you want to write in and correct the record, please do) - that he thought RSS was going to play a huge part of the future of the web. I [...]