Particularly notable was how high an adopter of these types of tools was government (‘Public Administration’) at 74%, which closely reflects the share of Australian Government agencies I’ve tracked as now using social media officially (73%).
Erik Qualman of Socialnomics has released the 2013 annual Social Media video, chock full of awe-inspiring statistics on the continuing rise of social media and its increasing influence on the world today. In a new twist, it’s available with two different music tracks (for those of you tired of an annual dose of FatBoy Slim)….
I’ve long lamented the speed at which academia was embracing the internet, social channels and 2.0 approaches – with limited courses available on modern online techniques for under and post graduates, old fashioned-approaches to research and publication. There’s been hints of brilliance overseas – with US universities placing courses online and UK universities embracing social…
Would you mandate that all your staff must use social media, at least to give it a try? That’s what one company in the US, Domo (a business intelligence startup), has done. The CEO, Josh James, has mandated that all 130 of Domo’s staff complete 20 social media and online tasks over eight weeks, from…
I’ve posted previously about whether it is time for government departments still using the nine-year old Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 to upgrade to a more modern web browser. This topic has become a matter of political interest in the UK, raised in a question to British Parliamentary Ministers last week and reported in an article…
A few weeks ago Ann Steward, the Australian Government Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Deputy Secretary leading AGIMO (the Australian Government Information Management Office) announced she was retiring from the public service after seven years in her current role. Her announcement was widely covered in the media, and there’s been a number of public and,…
A group of students from Penn State University have developed a methodology for assessing the personal risk to privacy when participating in online social media. It’s an interesting attempt to quantify objectively the risks for individuals and could be a useful starting point for government departments to help their staff understand the impacts of their…
This archive mirrors the original eGov AU blog — Craig’s professional commentary on AI, digital government and technology in public life, running since 2006.
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