If you’re seeking to communicate with Australians it is wise to step beyond traditional media channels and investigate how to engage through Australia’s blossoming blogosphere. The Australian blogosphere is the collective term for the entire ecosystem of Australian blogs – how they interconnect, how ideas (memes) spread and how links allow audiences to flow between…
I felt that it would be useful to compile the online discussions during media140 #OzPolitics into a single work, a permanent record that could be reread, referenced and reconsidered. So over the long weekend, with assistance from PeopleBrowsr, the support of Julie Posetti and permission from FirstDogOnMoon and Mike Stuchbery to reuse some of their…
Some people know that I’ve been tracking the posts and articles published online discussing the outing of the author of the Grog’s Gamut blog by The Australian. EDIT – due to updates to the spreadsheet below the figures presented in this section of the post are only valid at the original time of publication. Please…
Last month I gave a presentation to around 100 people at the Department of Innovation regarding the use of social media in Australian government, alongside Todd Wright of Threesides. With permission Innovation have published the presentations and video over at their Innovation Blog to share the seminar with others across the public service. I’d love…
As covered in The Australian’s article, Australian Bureau of Statistics embraces world of blogs and wikis, the ABS has implemented an internal collaboration platform supporting blogs, wikis and collaborative documents. The article reports that 30% of staff have begun using the wiki and blog functions. If reported correctly this reflects a huge demand for internal…
Lisa Howdin, who now works with me, has been compiling a set of guidelines and information around how to develop, write, manage and moderate social media tools in Government in the form of a wiki. She’s looking for contributions from people across Australian government who are working in this area and have learnings they can…
Marketing Daily has published an excellent article on the learnings of top executives about using and engaging via social media. All of the realisations and strategies mentioned apply equally to the public sector. You can read it at, Top Execs Dish About Social Media Strategies.
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…
I’ve been looking over my posts for the last year and thinking about how many people may have missed some because they didn’t notice them for the few days they were on the front page. So I thought I should highlight some of the most read posts in my blog over the last year. How…
On Monday, coinciding with the release of the Government’s Gov 2.0 Taskforce report response, AGIMO launched its new blog and blogging platform at AGIMO.Govspace.gov.au. More than simply a Departmental blog, Govspace, as discussed on Twitter by John Sheridan, is a blogging – and eventually a wiki – platform available for other Departments to use, @purserj…
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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