A change in seasons, change in circumstances and change in structures is always a good time to reflect on situations and review the current state. I’ve been doing a lot of reflecting and reviewing following my honeymoon and, looking around at some of the other long-time Government 2.0 supporters in Australia, it appear others have…
Below is a copy of a comment I have posted to the ABC The Drum in response to an Alan Kohler article, Big media inquiry, little industry change. I thought I’d repeat it here as it covers some of the changing landscape that government communicators are facing. I recommend reading Kohler’s article (or at least…
I’m attending the full second day of the Social Media in Government conference, however will not be liveblogging until after morning tea as the first two presentations, on The Line (FaHCSIA) and the Don’t Turn a Night Out into a Nightmare campaign (Health and Ageing), both represent areas which I’ve blogged about before. I am,…
Tenille Bentley, founder of Socialite Media is now presenting on trends in engagement by people. She says that the amount spent by state government on online engagement vastly under-rates the proportion of people’s media time spent online (around 41%). Tenille is illustrating the falling reach of newspapers and as their circulations decline, how their ad rates…
I’m only here for a few presentations today at Informa’s Social Media in Government conference, so are blogging rather than liveblogging the presentations. First up this morning is Mia Garlick, now at Facebook and previously with experience in Commonwealth Government and with Google. She’s talking about using Facebook in government. Mia has started by talking…
Last week the Department of Human Services changed its policy regarding staff who participated in volunteer activities – unpaid work undertaken on their own time. The Department decided that, in order to protect against potential conflicts of interest, public servants had to report their volunteer activities to their Manager and seek approval to do it….
What do the the Arab Spring, Anonymous, the Occupy movement, Iranian election protests, Anti-Putin protests, the #VileKyle push and the #Qantasluxury incident all have in common? Each of them was a demonstration of collective action by groups of people without a clear hierarchy of leadership against traditional hierarchical organisations. In each case the traditional organisations…
Continuous learning is a way of life for me, I can’t recall spending a day where I didn’t attempt to broaden my knowledge or understanding on a topic I’m interested in – and I have broad interests. Coming from a background of working in, and operating, small and medium businesses, the ability to continually learn…
A favored term amongst political operatives and advisors is ‘oxygen,, the share of the public discussion a politician, government or issue manages to obtain. Sometimes the goal is to have the largest possible share, starving other commentators and viewpoints. Other times the goal is to to minimise the share of oxygen a viewpoint or issue…
Beth Noveck, formerly the White House Deputy CTO, has published a fantastic paper on why it is so important to evolve democratic systems for the 21st century, and providing details of how a range of governments around the world are doing so. The paper is titled “Evolving democracy for the 21st Century” and is available…
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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