The US government might have become one of the most active public administrations using blogging, Twitter, Facebook and other online ‘social’ mediums, but until now there have been legal issues over how and whether Federal agencies could legally use these tools. However, after nine months of negotiations and discussion, the GSA has now signed an…
There’s an excellent and very active discussion over at Adriel Hampton’s blog regarding, Templating a Government 2.0 Blog. The discussion ranges beyond the pure technical and moderation challenges of establishing a blog (which are very easy to overcome) and into the mindset of government. In fact my view of the discussion is that setting up…
Over in the UK councils are being to adopt micro-blogging in a major way, with over 100 councils now using Twitter to make announcments and have two way conversations with their constituencies. The UK council association has published an article, Councils turn to new media, which discusses the uses councils are making of the service…
I’ve been too busy and tired this week to really commit to putting much content into eGovAU – which doesn’t mean I’m not listening and thinking about what is happening in the wider egovernment world. So instead of a regular post I thought I’d share some thoughts that have particularly stuck with me this week….
A report has been co-published by the Hansard society and Microsoft discussing how UK Members of Parliament are using the internet and providing strategies on how they can better use the internet to engage with their constituencies and with interest groups. It’s been highlighted already in the Victorian eGovernment Resource Centre, and discussed widely in…
The NSW Board of Studies has launched the 2009 Premier’s ANZAC Memorial Scholarship students blog. The blog features personal accounts by senior high school students selected to go to Gallipoli to participate in ANZAC Day commemoration activities. The blog is a very personal way of connecting students with Australia’s past, supporting the scholarship goal of…
Online social media is becoming an important tool for governments to engage citizens during emergencies to rapidly disseminate information. in fact it is even beginning to be credited with saving lives during health crises. According to Nextgov, Federal health agencies relied heavily on social media to inform the public about the recent outbreak of salmonella…
There’s been a lot of ‘bitsa’ initiatives in Australia around the online channel as both the private and public sector come to terms with the new online options to support communication, collaboration, consultation and engagement. However it’s been rare to see effective integrated use of online channels in a co-ordinated fashion to support ongoing initiatives….
The micro-blogging platform Twitter was the breakthrough social media tool for journalists in 2008. It became a pipeline for breaking news for both professional reporters and citizen journalists, with the massacre in Mumbai, the Hudson River plane crash and Obama’s inauguration highlighting its effectiveness as a source of live, user-generated online content. The statement above, from a recent article published in MediaShift,…
It has taken me a little while to post about this report, as when I first saw the media release in my webfeed I mistakenly thought this was news about the previous survey. However having finally caught up, thanks to the eGovernment Resource Centre, I’m pleased to see that the 2008 eGovernment survey shows the…
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