Tag Archives: media

Trust, the Media & the public sector

January 20, 2008 – 5:11 pm

Mark Thompson, the Director General of the BBC, last week on the BBC blog posted a speech he gave called The Trouble with Trust. At over 6,000 words it is a long post, but if you are a public sector communicator, it is well worth the read – for some very different reasons.
Thompson wants to [...]

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Review: Inside Spin

September 30, 2007 – 12:05 pm

Investigative journalist Bob Burton’s book Inside Spin, subtitled The dark underbelly of the PR industry, is an impressively researched look at the machinations of (principally Australian) PR practitioners – or, based upon the appallingly unethical behaviour he chronicles, what you would hope to be a very small subset thereof…
Fellow journalist, and onetime collaborator, New Zealander [...]

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del.icio.us and public sector PR

July 29, 2007 – 3:58 pm

When I posted some alternate uses for blogs in the public sector, one of the suggestions that I floated was for a linkblog as an internal communications tool. This started me thinking about other uses for del.icio.us and other social bookmarking sites, including the obvious use: as a site for storing your bookmarks…
If you haven’t [...]

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Channel selection: comms & the Internet

May 20, 2007 – 4:01 pm

My experience over the last two or three years in New Zealand government has taught me that one of the biggest hurdles that public sector communicators face is convincing senior management of the seismic shift in the public affairs function that the Internet is causing. All too often we encounter attitudes like, Yeah, but it’s [...]

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Launch of the portals

March 4, 2007 – 11:31 am

So, after much pre-publicity, speculation and hype, we now have two new Internet portals in the New Zealand market. Last week both Xtra and Microsoft revealed their offerings. And, while I really doubt if anyone outside the relevant organisations cares that much, I thought I would have a quick look at both and pass on [...]

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Do clothes maketh the man?

February 10, 2007 – 11:42 am

I thought John Keys’ decision to visit Waitangi dressed not in the expected suit, but in the very unexpected – a T-shirt (black, with a green tiki on it) – was a clever move. Doing away with the pin-stripe and tie for a day, and instead wearing clothes more typical of an “everyday Kiwi” [...]

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Social tools & NZ newspapers

February 1, 2007 – 4:02 pm

I posted before Chrsitmas about the launch of the new websites for the Herald and the Dominion Post. At the time I focussed on the fact that Fairfax, in keeping with their strategy for their Australian papers, had not implemented RSS feeds on the site. I charitably described it this way:

Smart move. Why would you [...]

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NZ newspaper sites relaunched

December 15, 2006 – 9:10 am

This morning both the New Zealand Herald and the Stuff websites (the Fairfax empire) were reskinned, and in the case of Stuff, relaunched with a new CMS. So, after a quick once over, what are my initial impressions?
Well, the obvious point to make is that they both look remarkably similar. Both have gone for CSS [...]

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