The IBM Center for the Business of Government has just issued a hefty report into blogging in government. The report, The Blogging Revolution: Government in the Age of Web 2.0 [PDF 7.2 MB], is an excellent primer for anyone who hasn’t really been exposed to social media and is wondering what all the fuss is [...]
I have posted once or twice in the past about the need for government agencies to ensure that, as digital natives start to flood into the workplace, the working environment in the public sector is not too dissimilar from the networked social environment that this generation (and any other early adopters of social media) are [...]
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 [...]
The UK Cabinet Office has just released an independent review it commissioned into the ways government can better enable the public to access and reuse its information. The Power of Information [PDF 280 KB], co-authored by the founder and director of mySociety – a charitable project that connects people with their governments and communities, [...]
I posted about ReputationDefender in November last year, a startup whose mission was to remove potentially embarassing content from the web so that you could protect your online reputation.
At the time the company launched their services were confined to asking companies to take down the offensive material but, it seems they have (in true [...]
A lot of the (offline) feedback I have been getting about this blog has been along the lines of, “why are you so obsessed with social media?” And it is a fair question. There are plenty of other areas of public affairs that I could post about that would probably be of more interest to [...]
There has been quite a bit of discussion in the blogosphere over the last fortnight about the blog as the new CV. It was started by a post by Adam Darowski, The Blog is the New Resume and subsequently picked up by Joshua Porter, who expanded upon the idea.
These posts are both well worth reading, [...]
At the beginning of March Gartner published a brief paper, titled ‘What Does Web 2.0 Mean to Government (no link: subscription required), that included some significant observations about our future operating environment, and it set me thinking about what this will mean for the public sector in big-picture terms.
Before we get to the report itself, [...]
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 [...]
One of the hardest aspects of coming to terms with the changes that social media are bringing to our working environment, particularly for public sector communicators, is exercising the sort of judgement that ensures the tools are deployed appropriately and support the overall communications and business objectives.
While in Australia this week, I came across a [...]
