Social Media in Government – Day 2
I am, however, catching Tweets as they occur.
Below is my liveblog for the rest of the day…
I am, however, catching Tweets as they occur.
Below is my liveblog for the rest of the day…
I’m not a fan of terms such as Web 2.0, which seems to refer to any internet development since 2001. The web is an evolving medium, just like any other. We don’t see the term ‘Television 2.0’ (or 5.0 considering all the generational changes) used to refer to reality TV. I’m even less comfortable with…
Davied van Berlo‘s two books “Civil Servant 2.0” and “Civil Servant 2.0 beta” have finally been translated into English and are available online for free. I’ve admired and followed the work of Davied, a Dutch Civil Servant, for several years now. Davied has been using the internet for about as long as I have and…
2009 has been called the year of mobile internet – and with good reason. The iPhone has become the fastest adopted consumer electronics product in history. Google’s Android has become a serious mobile platform and smartphones of every shade have continued to multiple exponentially. The mobile internet has been growing faster than any digital platform…
We’re in the first workshop of the day at the CEBIT Gov 2.0 conference. It is led by Andrew Stott, the Director for Digital Engagement for the UK government. The first exercise of the day has been to come up with reasons that government may give for not releasing data online. I don’t know if…
With the news this week that Fairfax is following News Ltd in introducing paywalls to their major metro online news mastheads, organisations need to think deeper about their social media strategy. With a paywall strategy two things happen. Firstly a large number of people stop using the paywalled websites. For example it’s been reported in…
GovFresh celebrates Gov 2.0 Heroes Day every year on 15 June. Gov 2.0 Heroes Day celebrates, in the words of GovFresh, …citizens inside and outside government who go above and beyond the call of duty and creatively leverage technology to build a more open, transparent and collaborative democracy. The ‘usual suspects’ of social media are…
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