There’s plenty of good examples of how government is using social well – for policy development, service delivery, engagement and more.
A rising trend in overseas governments is to appoint people specifically into a role such as New Media Director with a responsibility for developing guiding an agency or department’s online participation initiatives. In the US Federal Government this type of role is becoming so important that it is becoming a political appointment (as are the…
I found out last week that Google had recently integrated YouTube with Google’s speech-text technology, allowing videos displayed on YouTube to have their captions and transcripts automatically generated. In addition, these captions and transcripts can then be translated, via Google’s text translation system, and displayed on the video in any supported language. The transcript can…
I read constantly to keep up-to-date with the Gov 2.0 and Web 2.0 world, so I thought I’d publish a list of what I’ve read today based on the pages I have open currently in my web browser. Global Gov 2.0 – “Generation GovLoop” Provoking Profound Change? Highlights how changes in public service demographics will…
Step Two will be running a free information session discussing the winners of the 2008 Intranet Innovation Awards in Canberra on Tuesday 11 November from 2-4pm. According to James Robertson of Step Two, the event will include a look at, Transfield Service’s uniquely effective approach to rolling outSharePoint team spaces. Highly successful collaboration amongst cabin…
I’ve been pinged by Pia Waugh to liveblog today’s GovCamp AU event. What is a GovCamp? The official definition is: GovCamp is an event in the spirit of BarCamp for governments and other public institutions to share social and technology solutions to turn them into Government 2.0. Note this won’t be a full view on…
The Department of Finance and Deregulation has announced on its Web Publishing Guide blog that it has opened its internal network to Facebook, Twitter and other social network tools and released a guide for staff, Social Media 101: A beginner’s guide for Finance employees. Social Media 101 includes guidance for staff use of social media…
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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