Tag Archives: public sector

The (real) cost of social media

October 7, 2007 – 10:40 am

I have posted previously about arguments for social media and a business case for a blog. And while there is plenty of discussion about the ROI of blogging in particular and social media in general, for public sector communicators it is important that we understand what we are committing our organizations to when we launch [...]

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Social media and government consultation

September 26, 2007 – 11:58 am

For those of us who are watching how governments begin to engage with social media, it has been a particularly active week. Colin McKay at the Canadian Office of the Privacy Commissioner has launched an official blog and there has been a bit of activity here in the antipodes as well.
Police wiki
First, as part of [...]

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Media monitoring and blogs

September 16, 2007 – 11:27 am

It was with some delight, tempered by wry amusement, that I opened the PDF forwarded on by a colleague this week that announced a new service launched by Chong Newztel, the media monitoring firm. From the end of this month they are going to be monitoring the blogosphere as well as traditional media.
Why delight? Announcements [...]

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BBC goes social: some lessons for govt

September 6, 2007 – 6:49 pm

The BBC introduced social bookmarking options for all of its news website pages last month. Not a startling move in itself; as one of the editors noted in his blog, they are following the lead of some fairly large media organisations, notably the New York Times and the Washington Post. Oddly, despite me blogging about [...]

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Public sector blogging toolbox

August 26, 2007 – 8:05 pm

You have got the go-ahead to trial a blog within your organization after winning management over with your business case for a blog, and now you are down to the implementation. What are the sorts of tools (hardware and software) that you will need to make this thing work?
Before you begin downloading, installing and customising, [...]

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Wikipedia and public sector edits

August 19, 2007 – 12:35 pm

The blogosphere has been running hot this week with posts about a tool that allows you to track all of an organization’s edits of particular Wikipedia pages.
The data-mining tool, WikiScanner, which compiles and mashes up information that has always been available, matches IP addresses with the edits stored in the history pages in Wikipedia. The [...]

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BarCamp comes to Wellington

August 13, 2007 – 8:42 pm

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, BarCamp is coming to the Shaky Isles. The inaugural New Zealand BarCamp unconference is going to be held in Wellington on Saturday, September 15. The theme of the event is loosely based around the concept of Govt 2.0; loosely because it is really up to whoever shows up on the day [...]

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Blogging and your media policy

August 5, 2007 – 5:40 pm

It is almost inevitable that, right now, there are at least a couple of people in your agency running their own blogs. It is also a pretty safe bet to assume that if you open up your agency’s media policy, you won’t find anything in there about blogging. The policy will be very specific about [...]

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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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Alternate uses for public sector blogs

July 22, 2007 – 2:51 pm

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 [...]

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