Social Media in Government – Day 2
I am, however, catching Tweets as they occur.
Below is my liveblog for the rest of the day…
I am, however, catching Tweets as they occur.
Below is my liveblog for the rest of the day…
Following from my post yesterday regarding the US senate debate over the use of social media by congressmen, several congressmen have launched a campaign to remove restrictions on internet use by the US congress. The campaign is entitled Let Our Congress Tweet and, as you’d expect, makes extensive use of social media to put across…
As reported by Peter Timmins in his Open & Shut blog, and as I have commented on Twitter, crowdfunding is beginning to become an interesting tool for fundraising the cash requested by government agencies for fulfilling FOI responses. Where governments are still using charging for FOI searches as a cost-recovery tool (and potentially occasionally as a barrier…
Yesterday’s announcement of the Australian Government’s plans to build a national broadband network has created a huge amount of buzz online. If you’ve not seen the news, yesterday morning the government announced that they have terminated the tender process due to cost concerns and shortcomings in all tender proposals. Instead the government will invest up…
One of the UK’s social media success stories, Patient Opinion, has now launched an Australian website at www.patientopinion.org.au. Patient Opinion, which has been live since 2005, allows patients to rate and comment on their experience with health providers. It has been an amazing (if sometimes painful) success in the UK, leading to a number of…
What gets 280 attendees, 10 organisers and 14 presenters to the National Library of Australia at 8.30am on a Saturday morning on a beautiful spring day in Canberra? The first TEDxCanberra, an independently organised TED event featuring sessions on knowledge, empowerment and change. I’m liveblogging the event so keep an on this post and the…
From 12:30-1:30pm (AEST) today, Content Group is holding the second of its live webinars, this time on Content Marketing in Government. The webinar features a panel including Gina Ciancio, Senior Social Media Advisor at the Department of Human Services, Kanchan Dutt, Senior Manager Media and Communications at ACT Government, and myself. It will be broadcast on Canberra…
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