The online talkback radio program, The Hobson & Holtz Report, will be spending an hour discussing the topic of my blog post on the relationship between a strong commitment to internal communications and an effective intranet. The program, presented by Shel Holz in California (US) and Neville Hobson in Berkshire (UK), discusses public relations and…
In the ‘old days’ before the internet, the boundaries of government reports, brochures, fact sheets, policy statements and other discrete documents were hard and unyielding. While a document might feature several attributed quotes and some purchased stock art, all of the content was owned by the organisation that created it. This was a logical approach…
Earlier this month AGIMO released a report regarding consultation with government online. This concludes a yearlong consultation program during which AGIMO has consulted a range of stakeholders to assist development in the online consultation space. It’s taken me a little while to get to it, but the report has been very useful in directing my…
There was an interesting admission from the US Army Secretary last week in Inside Defense as reported in the Wired Danger Room Blog, Senior Army leaders have fallen behind the breakneck development of cheapdigital communications including cell phones, digital cameras and Web 2.0Internet sites such as blogs and Facebook, Army Secretary Pete Geren said at…
Let’s assume you work for a government body that is deeply involved in highly contentious issues – issues that are very interesting (and frustrating) to communities both online and offline. Let’s also assume that your organization has very little chance of changing the fundamental policies and procedures that frame these issues in the public’s eyes….
Public sector blogging is becoming established in the UK, US and even New Zealand – although there is still very little being written by Australian public servants (‘government’ isn’t even a category in Australian blog indexes such as The Australia Index). Situations such as Civil Serf in the UK and Washingtonienne in the US raised…
In the US government gateway site there’s a page listing the active and past official Blogs from the U.S. Government. Looking through the list of 43 blogs, there’s a wide range of topics on which this medium has been used – from AIDs education, through Art, Environmental issues and Foreign policy to Defense. If your…
There’s a great article up on BuzzMachine titled Google as the new press room. It makes the point that newspapers are in the content business, not the printing and distribution or website business. As such they should focus on what they do well (create excellent content) and outsource the non-core activities. The specific example is…
Nathanael Boehm has provided more details on what may be the first official joint Commonwealth/State/Territory government blog in Australia. In Government Blog: blog.training.gov.au, he talks about the purpose behind the site and how it was constructed, using opensource technologies to deliver a fast, cheap and secure solution. This achievement is a great example of how…
When people think of the UK House of Lords, some might use words such as traditional, hidebound, conservative, outdated or even irrelevant. However these terms don’t apply to the latest initiative from the House – lords of the blog. Members of the UK’s upper house of parliament (equivalent to Australia’s Senate), are now writing a…
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