Read it over at Nicholas Gruen on Gov 2.0 in Australia and cultural change.
Online social media is becoming an important tool for governments to engage citizens during emergencies to rapidly disseminate information. in fact it is even beginning to be credited with saving lives during health crises. According to Nextgov, Federal health agencies relied heavily on social media to inform the public about the recent outbreak of salmonella…
Nick over in the WA egovernment blog Web 2.0 showcase, posted an excellent article back in August entitled, Selling the idea of a social media strategy. This focused on approaches for encouraging government departments to look at social media – at least as a research tool to understand what people were saying. Nick referred to…
At the Gov 2.0 Conference in Canberra last Monday, Minister Tanner said, “We do want to ensure that we have the capacity for public servants to feel able to engage, and engage in robust discussion online.” His comments were captured in a CEBIT article, Tanner: Gov 2.0 about culture change, not technology – and in…
Governments around the world now rely on social media services to reach and engage citizens, disseminate information, to monitor what people are saying and source intelligence to help address crises. Many businesses also rely on digital channels for revenue and engagement reasons. So what happens when an online service that an organisation uses updates its…
Technorati has released its report, State of the Blogosphere / 2008, providing a view on the growth and application of blogs as a medium. The report can be summed up in the statement “blogging is here to stay”. Notable to me in the report was that the fifth top topic and sixth most used tag…
I’ll be liveblogging this conference today, and part of tomorrow. Co-Design conference
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