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In government in Tassie? Come along to the IPAA Forum on Transforming public engagement through social media

Bycraigthomler 11 July 2012

I’m headed to Tassie in early August and whilst there will be presenting at an IPAA forum on the topic of Transforming public engagement through social media.

If you’re in a Tassie state agency or local government and interested in Gov 2.0, social media or community engagement, I’d like to invite you to consider coming along.

Details are available at the IPAA Tasmania website: http://www.tas.ipaa.org.au/events

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It’s time for government to consider the mobile internet
Bycraigthomler 12 January 2009

What do the Apple iPhone, Nokia N97, T-Mobile G1, Samsung Omnia, Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1, Blackberry Storm and Palm Pre have in common? Yes they are all sleek, carefully-designed handheld gadgets with a focus on usability. Yes they’re also all 3G smartphones – meaning they provide mobile access to email, web and video as…

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When the public controls the printing presses and corporations have more ‘citizens’ than countries, who holds the power?
Bycraigthomler 23 March 2010

There are now over 1.7 billion internet users in the world, sending more than 270 billion emails each day. Over 400 million people use Facebook each month (about 50% of them daily). Over 50 million Tweets are sent each day and over 75 million people visited Twitter’s site in January 2010. There are approximately 3…

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How do you sell the idea of a social media strategy in government?
Bycraigthomler 19 November 2008

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…

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Google launches Student Voice mock Australian election for high school students
Bycraigthomler 28 July 2010

Google has launched the Student Voice initiative, whereby 15-17 year old Australian students will be able to vote online in a mock election reflecting the current Federal election. The goal is to help these students learn more about elections and also provide a perspective on how Australia’s future voters (who will be eligible to vote…

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How are governments overseas using Government 2.0? (Public Sphere Camp Series)
Bycraigthomler 10 June 2009

Government 2.0 is a global trend and many governments around the world are already deep into online initiatives of this type. Below I’m going to touch on three examples which demonstrate some of the potential benefits of government 2.0 – accessibility, collaboration, transparency and engagement. If these only whet your appetite, there are further examples…

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Victoria launching $100,000 ‘Apps my state’ competition to create open data applications
Bycraigthomler 4 February 2010

Following the lead of the Gov 2.0 Taskforce’s MashupAustralia and NSW’s Apps4nsw competition (which runs until 24 March), Victoria’s Minister for Information and Communications Technology, John Lenders, has announced the ‘Apps my state’ competition. In his media release, Minister Lenders said that, “App My State is a competition to encourage software developers and members of…

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