For full details, see Pia’s post on the Gov 2.0 Google Group.
Of course, if you already subscribed to the Group, you’d have had a head start 🙂
As a follow-up to my post last week Familiarity trumps understanding (dealing with Neophobiacs), John Sheridan has made me aware of a Sydney Morning Herald article by Chris Berg on One hack of a crime wave, or so they say. The article argues that while claims have been made that online hacking and cybercrime industries…
Google Trends is a great tool for tracking the ebb and flow of ideas, products and personalities in the public eye. I’ve used it, for example, to track customer awareness of an agency name change – which gave my agency a good handle on the speed at which our communications was shifting perceptions. This is…
Thirty years ago if you wanted to read the news, you bought a newspaper. A paper newspaper, with real money. As a result all of a government’s announcements – media releases, Ministerial statements, advertising and other content had a price tag by default. You didn’t get to see them if you didn’t pay the paper’s…
Recently Luke Fretwell over at Govfresh asked the question Time for government to plug into one platform? While I am a big fan of Luke’s and agree with his view that transferring government websites to Facebook, granting partial control over them to a foreign-jurisdiction company, is not a good idea, I find it harder to…
Following from my post this morning on Telstra’s use of Twitter, Chris Brogan wrote an excellent piece last month on how organisations can use Twitter to better engage their customers titled, 50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Business. For me (as it was for Chris) the number one reason or idea for using this type…
Following my security theme today, I’ve never seen much value in passwords as strong security measures – they need to be easy to remember for the user, and therefore rely on common letter and number patterns of relevance to the user, which inevitably become easier to break.People need to remember passwords for many different services….
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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