I’ve included my two presentations below, and they’re also available in my Slideshare page.
This post was triggered by a question post over at Strange Attractor, asking Why isn’t social software spreading like wildfire through business? This is a question I have considered as well, in the last year from a government perspective. It particularly puzzled me late last year when I made unsuccessful efforts to get a wiki…
When things change over time and we live through the changes, we often don’t notice their scale or impact on our behaviour or thinking. It’s like growing up – you don’t wake up each day thinking ‘wow! I’m a millimetre taller’ – but your uncles and aunts notice the difference as they see you less…
My experience in both the public and private sectors has been that organisations often face enormous resistance against the introduction of social media channels for staff. Given how new social media tools are, this, in my view, reflects similar resistance to other new innovations, such as the introduction of: phones on every desk (staff could…
Many of you are probably aware that Facebook’s active membership is larger than the population of the world’s third largest country, however the numbers are getting too big to relate to Australia. So I’ve taken the idea and compiled a view of Australia by state, including the main social networks used by Aussies as if they…
I often hear talk from government agencies about their wish to release more of their data openly, but their concern over how they allocate resources to ensure the most useful data is released first. In several conversations I’ve had in different parts of Australia, the agency view was that they only wanted to release useful…
If you’ve been involved in public engagement or public participation over the last twelve months, it is worth checking out the International Association for Public Participation’s (IAP2) global Core Values Awards for 2012. Open now for entry, the IAP2’s Core Values Awards recognise the best public participation activities by organisations from around the world, based…
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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