I’ve seen (and spoken with colleagues about) a number of austerity measures taken in government agencies around Australia over the last few months. With various governments across the country looking to cut spending to balance budgets, or at least reduce debt levels, lower 2011-12 budgets require many agencies to look long and hard at what…
I’ve been watching, and participating, in some of the discussions around whether government agencies and entire governments should centralise or decentralise their web presence. For some reason a number, such as the UK government, South Australia and the ACT, have decided that centralising all their websites into a single portal is the right approach, although…
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…
I am presenting from 3.20pm today, and my presentation is now available on slideshare, viewable as below. Developing an agency social media infrastructure View more presentations from Craig Thomler.
I’ve taken some time off this morning to put together some extra slides for my presentation, so are not yet in the room, however have a liveblog running to capture the tweeters who are… My presentation is at 3.20pm today and will be on slideshare shortly afterwards. AMI Government Marketing Conference day 2
Hi, I’ll be liveblogging parts of the AMI Marketing and Communications Conference today and tomorrow. You can also follow the conference at the hashtag #amigov2011 AMI Government Marketing & Communications Conference
I will be liveblogging much of the Walkley Public Affairs in the Nation’s Capital conference today. See below for the liveblog, or follow the event on Twitter under the tag #wpanc. There is also a blog for the day at http://walkleypanc2011.posterous.com/ written and edited by a team made up of the Walkley Foundation’s Kylie Johnson…
With well over 20% of local governments in Australia using social media in their communication and engagement activities I’ve been please to begin seeing state Local Government Associations begin to release social media guidance papers. To my knowledge both the Municipal Association of Victoria (MAV) (whose document appears to be inaccessible online at the moment)…
“We are all cyborgs now” claims Amber Case in her January 2011 TED Director Talk (see her video below). The concept of humans as purely biological beings ended long ago, potentially 3,000 years ago, with the first documented prosthetic limb on an Egyptian Mummy. However the widespread use of mechanical or electronic devices to aid…
I’ll be missing the Gov 2.0 conference that CeBIT is holding for the third time this October (25-26 October) due to my honeymoon. However I do recommend to others that they consider attending. In my view this is the most mature Gov 2.0 conference in Australia and has managed to step beyond the ‘101’ nature…
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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