Mark Scott, the Managing Director of ABC, has written a very interesting piece in Unleashed about the future of ‘old media’ empires entitled, Media after Empire.
While it’s not specifically about Government, I thought it had some very interesting comments about ’empires’ which resonate with some of the challenges that the public sector faces in the digital age.
I’ve had a continuing interest in start-up ecosystems across Australia, having been a member of several of these ecosystems & helping to mentor and support a range of start-ups over the years. I’ve maintained a Canberra ecosystem map for about four years now, mostly for my own interest and to understand some of the relationships…
This is a presentation I gave on Monday to NSW Health, including a review of Australian social media adoption, how agencies have been using social media, risks to watch out for and some examples of good public sector social media execution. I’m happy to come chat to any government agency or council on these topics…
I’m liveblogging at least the morning session of CEBIT’s Gov 2.0 conference in Canberra. Please add your comments and questions and I’ll seek to pass them on to the speakers and blog the responses. For those of you on Twitter, the hashtag to follow is #gov2. Gov 2.0 Conference – Morning
In the run-up to GovHack this weekend, Australian governments have been hard at work preparing new or updated open data sites, many using CKAN as their base technology. This includes the new Australian Government beta data.gov.au site, the new South Australian government’s data.sa.gov.au and the NSW government’s new data.nsw.gov.au/data/. We also have Queensland’s data.qld.gov.au, Victoria’s data.vic.gov.au and the ACT’s data.act.gov.au (which uses…
There are now over 1.7 billion internet users in the world, sending more than 270 billion emails each day. Over 400 million people use Facebook each month (about 50% of them daily). Over 50 million Tweets are sent each day and over 75 million people visited Twitter’s site in January 2010. There are approximately 3…
Marketing Daily has published an excellent article on the learnings of top executives about using and engaging via social media. All of the realisations and strategies mentioned apply equally to the public sector. You can read it at, Top Execs Dish About Social Media Strategies.
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You can also see/hear Mark Scott's address here: http://live.unimelb.edu.au/episode/smith-lecture-journalism
Thanks Dave.