Tag Archives: govt 2.0

Social media & change management

April 28, 2008 – 3:00 pm

Reading and responding to the comments left on the last couple of posts had me returning to a question that I have wrestled with periodically over the last year or two: how do you convince senior management of the need to begin planning for online engagement? One tactic that occurred to me is to use [...]

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Public sector wikis

March 2, 2008 – 5:00 pm

Chris Wilson posted an interesting article on Slate last week, The Wisdom of the Chaperones, that uses some interesting data on Wikipedia and Digg contributors to look critically at the notion of the wisdom of the crowd.
Essentially, Wilson points out that these social sites are not built and maintained by the masses, rather they are [...]

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Govt 2.0 and public value

December 9, 2007 – 5:52 pm

For two days earlier this week I was at the Online Social Networking conference in Sydney, the highlight of which was a terrific presentation by Seb Chan from the Powerhouse Museum.
Seb’s presentation, with the rather meandering title, A brief introduction to web 2.0 for government and non-profits: a perspective from the cultural sector included a [...]

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GOVIS 2007

May 13, 2007 – 4:53 pm

The last three days of last week were taken up by the 2007 GOVIS conference, this year the theme being Innovation in IT. And yes, there was quite a lot of focus on Web 2.0 and what it means for government here in New Zealand. There was even a bit of discussion about the role [...]

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