November 18, 2007 – 7:44 pm
When I first posted about the principles for public sector social media, sovereignty was the first of the ten principles I discussed because, once you have decided that you need to incorporate social media into your communications plan, the next most important decision is where you host the project. The answer at the time was, [...]
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, [...]
In the comments thread after the post on reputation management last week, Sam Farrow made some excellent points about search engine optimisation (SEO) and public sector communications. During the course of the conversation, I realised that this was a topic that needed its own post. Unfortunately, this isn’t it. Why? Because while composing that post, [...]
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 [...]
The State Services Commission today released the new version of the New Zealand Government Web Standards, version 1.0. The new standards draw heavily upon the previous document, the Web Guidelines v2.1, however there are some significant differences that should be of interest to public sector communicators who have responsibility for creating and maintaining web content.
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February 23, 2007 – 9:23 am
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 [...]
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 [...]
September 29, 2006 – 3:05 pm
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 [...]
