My presentation for the AMI Government Marketing and Communications Conference
I am presenting from 3.20pm today, and my presentation is now available on slideshare, viewable as below.
I am presenting from 3.20pm today, and my presentation is now available on slideshare, viewable as below.
Around the world governments are tightening their belts. After the recent global financial crisis many countries’ governments have borrowed heavily from financial markets and released these funds as stimulus packages – placing them in deficit. Australia is no different, although we have very successfully kept our deficit to a smaller percentage of GDP than most…
The McKinsley Quarterly has published a very interesting piece on the future of innovation, The next step in open innovation. This explores the concept that companies – and government departments – have traditionally been ‘closed shops’ for innovation. All their innovation has occurred internally with few linkages to the work underway at other organisations. However…
This is a long slide presentation, but well worth reviewing in its entirety, that looks at the state of the internet globally today, the state of traditional media impacted by online and how social media and mobile companies are performing. Unfortunately it can’t be embedded, so you’ll have to look at the presentation at the…
Brought to my attention by the Victorian eGovernment Resource Centre, the below video from Shel Holzman provides an excellent summary of the value of social media as an set of egovernment tools within government intranets. It addresses common misunderstandings and myths that have limited take-up, case studies of successful social media use and talks through…
This post by Steve Radick was brought to my attention by Steve Davies of OzLoop. I thought it was worth flagging here and noting that these are not simply Gov 2.0 villains, but are the opponents of innovators and change-leaders in every organisation. The six villains of Gov 2.0. How many of these villains have…
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…
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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