Liveblog for Govinnovate 2014 Day 1
Over the next few days I will be liveblogging and tweeting from GovInnovate 2014, so follow my blog and Twitter feed for all the latest views on the use of digital within government.
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Make government data freely available
An interesting article was released in the Yale Journal of Law & Technology earlier this year discussing a view that government should focus on providing usable data online rather than full-blown websites. Titled Government Data and the Invisible Hand , the premise was quite simply explained in the abstract: Rather than struggling, as it currently…
Guesting on #GovChat today
This week I am the guest on #GovChat, a Canadian operated weekly Twitter chat through PSLeader, featuring high profile public service and thought leaders from around the world. The chat starts at 10:00AM today for Aussie east coasters, 9:30AM in the middle and at 8:00AM if you’re in the west. For participants around the world:…
Presentation Zen in Sydney 4 July!
James Robertson from Step Two Designs has organised for Garr Reynolds, presentation guru and writer of the Presentation Zen blog (and now book) to give one public event in Sydney while he’s in Australia. It’s not free, but it’s well worth investigating: http://www.steptwo.com.au/columntwo/index.html
Eight ways to create a top government tweet
I was pleased to hear last week at the Social Business conference in Melbourne that an increasing number of Victorian government agencies were competing to reach the highest place in the Great Oz Gov Tweets daily Top 50 Government Tweets list. When this competition is healthy it helps encourage agencies to compare themselves against their peers, exchange…
Case study – helping employees help each other via Intranet social networking
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Any questions for me at the National Public Sector Communications Officers’ Forum next week?
I am speaking next Tuesday at the National Public Sector Communications Officers’ Forum, giving a Gov 2.0 case study about yourHealth and discussing citizen engagement on behalf of my employer. If anyone attending the Forum has any questions they’d particularly like me to answer about these topics, please let me know in the comments below…