This post by Steve Radick was brought to my attention by Steve Davies of OzLoop.
I thought it was worth flagging here and noting that these are not simply Gov 2.0 villains, but are the opponents of innovators and change-leaders in every organisation.
How many of these villains have you encountered – and what are the superpowers that can be used to defeat them?
Often those of us living in English-speaking countries focus on what is going on in other English-speaking nations, Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada, UK and so on. There’s a perfectly good reason for this, many of us don’t speak the languages used in other blogs around the world. However the impact of social media is…
I am co-presenting the first presentation on Wednesday at the Ark Group’s Advancing Intranet Management in the Public Sector conference in Sydney. My colleague and I will be discussing how our agency’s intranet was used to support staff through the recent major reform of the Australian Child Support Scheme and the cultural shifts through the…
Facebook’s active membership now exceeds 500 million users – that’s 1 in 13 humans. If it were a country it would be the third largest on earth. Its usage in Australia accounts for roughly 29% of the time spent online. Based on the average Australian internet user spending around 18.8 hours online each month (as…
This year is the 50 year anniversary of the creation of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency(ARPA) in the US in response to the Soviet launch of Sputnik I, the world’s first artificial satellite. ARPA went on to create ARPANet – the first computer network and the genesis of the internet. It is also the…
Cheryl from the Victorian eGovernment Resource Centre recently brought to my attention the launch of the BrandKarma website. The website aggregates information about top brands and allows the public to indicate whether they love, hate or want to watch them. It also allows comments and, in the best social networking style, the creation of personal…
Google will be hosting a hack session in support of the Gov 2.0 Taskforce’s MashupAustralia competition in Sydney on 14 October. In case you’re unaware, MashupAustralia is a competition being run by the Gov 2.0 Taskforce based on Federal and state government datasets released via data.australia.gov.au. There are cash prizes on offer for developers who…
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