There’s been a very active and engaging discussion in the Gov 2.0 Australia group regarding safe and effective social media use by government agencies. I thought it was a topic worth discussing in this blog. One of the challenges government agencies face is whether or not to get involved with the discussions already occurring about…
The Society for Digital Agencies (SODA) has released its Digital Outlook for 2010. This is a great read and provides insight into the thinking and activity around the digital space from a global perspective. Note that they are having an event in Sydney this Friday (Media 2010, Introducing the next media decade), which I am…
This year I’ve started holding events to help bring together Gov 2.0 practitioners and interested parties to encourage discussion and information sharing. After a successful Gov 2.0 dinner in January, the next event is a lunch at Parliament House with Edmonton’s CIO, Chris Moore. Chris is well-known internationally for the work he’s done to open…
Minister Tanner has been making statements in conference speeches about having public servants use social media to engage the community for at least a year now. Yesterday he took this a step further and wrote an article, published in the Sydney Morning Herald, entitled The government wants to blog. Given that the Australian Government has…
If you’ve ever been required to collect ideas from the public – or wanted to – have you considered the use of a ‘ideas market’ or similar system for collecting. allowing comments on, prioritising and reporting back on the use of ideas. Dell and Starbucks both use these systems extensively to seek public ideas to…
Has your organisation ever considered sharing your photo library with other government organisations? With the costs of conducting new photo shoots, why not share your images with other organisations who might use them – and encourage them to share their images with you. Some agencies may even wish the public to reuse their images. Some…
I will be liveblogging as much as possible of BarCamp Canberra 2010, however note that I am also speaking and the other two rooms may not have wifi – so I will post my notes later. This year BarCamp is standing room only, with around 90 attendees at the start of the day, and more…
BarCamp Canberra 2010 is on today, a free ‘unconference’ (meaning it is community organised and anyone can speak) focusing on internet and design related topics from technology through social media and edemocracy to culture (including Government 2.0). If you’re around the city today, why not drop in for a few sessions at the Computer Science…
I was alerted to the release of VisualPlace at the start of this week, and have spent the last few days playing with the site to get a feel for its potential. From the site, VisualPlace’s purpose is to, …show the value of an interactive GIS-enabled service for the visualisation of location-based government information. The…
It’s going to be a Victorian Government day today in my blog, with the state launching a number of Gov 2.0 based initiatives, from their ‘Apps my State‘ competition to VisualPlace (see my post Friday afternoon). Significantly, Victoria’s government has made a commitment this week to use Creative Commons as the default copyright licensing system…
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