I was checking my Department’s week-old Drinking Nightmare Facebook Page from home the other day and noticed that besides it up popped an ad for ASIO, inviting me to learn more about being a Survelliance Officer. This was the first time I’d seen ASIO advertising on Facebook – or for that matter any Australian government…
I’m beginning to see more and more organisations and their various advertising and PR agencies look seriously at social media as a core communications channel for their campaigns and other customer, client and citizen engagement activities. This is beginning to make me wonder how communications professionals who know little or nothing about social media will…
The White House has begun using Twitter as a tool to correct journalistic mistakes and understand the reaction of journalists to news stories, as reported in the article, W.H. messaging in 140 characters. Over the past few months, particularly during and following the change in Federal Liberal leadership, I’ve been finding some of the commentary…
There’s been a very active and engaging discussion in the Gov 2.0 Australia group regarding safe and effective social media use by government agencies. I thought it was a topic worth discussing in this blog. One of the challenges government agencies face is whether or not to get involved with the discussions already occurring about…
The Society for Digital Agencies (SODA) has released its Digital Outlook for 2010. This is a great read and provides insight into the thinking and activity around the digital space from a global perspective. Note that they are having an event in Sydney this Friday (Media 2010, Introducing the next media decade), which I am…
Minister Tanner has been making statements in conference speeches about having public servants use social media to engage the community for at least a year now. Yesterday he took this a step further and wrote an article, published in the Sydney Morning Herald, entitled The government wants to blog. Given that the Australian Government has…
Has your organisation ever considered sharing your photo library with other government organisations? With the costs of conducting new photo shoots, why not share your images with other organisations who might use them – and encourage them to share their images with you. Some agencies may even wish the public to reuse their images. Some…
I will be liveblogging as much as possible of BarCamp Canberra 2010, however note that I am also speaking and the other two rooms may not have wifi – so I will post my notes later. This year BarCamp is standing room only, with around 90 attendees at the start of the day, and more…
In a first for a major political party in Australia, the Australian Labor Party (ALP) has embedded blogging, tweeting and video in the heart of its website, relaunching www.alp.org.au as a Politics 2.0 website. Termed ‘Labor Connect’ the redeveloped site aims to foster active policy debates, stating that, We know we won’t always agree about…
January 21 was the one year anniversary of the US Government’s open government initiative, measured from when President Obama released his first memorandum in office, committing the US government to an approach involving openness, transparency and collaboration. In recognition of this anniversary, Delib, a UK Open Government consultancy, has released a short documentary about the…
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