Joining the US, Canada, the UK, New Zealand and a host of other jurisdictions already leading the way around the world, the Australian Government has now launched its official government data sharing website, www.data.gov.au Announced by Special Minister of State, Gary Gray, in the post Release of data.gov.au on AGIMO’s blog, Minister Gray said that,…
Chris Quigley of Delib is in Australia at the moment, on a trip around capital cities talking about Open Government from a UK and US perspective. Today and tomorrow he’s in Canberra meeting with various people around the traps (and speaking at the Gov 2.0 lunch). Tonight, to welcome Chris, we’re having informal drinks at…
There’s a fantastic series of articles being published over at FutureGov Asia-Pacific at the moment, introducing some very interesting perspectives on social media and government. One asks, Should policy be debated in social media?, providing perspectives from senior leaders in different jurisdictions across the region. There is a fair amount of diversity in the viewpoints,…
If organizations that used Facebook to disseminate their message were actual people, NASA would be the captain of the football team and the class president, the White House would be his cheerleader girlfriend and the the Department of Commerce would be the nerd they both pushed into a locker… Technews Daily Digital IQ Index: Public…
I attended Gartner’s Government Day on Monday for their ITXPO Symposium (I was on a panel), and it was very interesting to hear the views expressed about social media. Below are some of the quotes I recorded from Gartner analysts and senior IT leaders. They are not all verbatim and have been reordered to flow…
There’s been discussion on Twitter over the last day about whether Australian government should be building online platforms, such as a video aggregation and distribution service, URL shortcut tools (which Victoria have done) or collective infrastructure for hosting and developing all government websites. This has been an area of on-and-off discussion for over a year…
In Pat’s Citizen 2.0 workshop we’ve been discussing how citizens have changed – their expectations and behaviours. Below is the list we came up with, and a video from William Perrin (given for Public Sphere) on how these changes are affecting government. Changes in citizen expectations and behaviours Instant access to information – instant response…
Last Monday (4 October) one of the US’s most loved brands tried to introduce its new logo. The company went about it in the traditional, time-honoured way. Marketing staff had consulted internal stakeholders (who thought after twenty years the logo looked a little tired), considered the research and wrote a brief. Working with a creative…
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 thought I’d share a post brought to my attention by Geoff Mason via the Online Communicators Forum group in LinkedIn Written by Jared Stein at Flexknowlogy, Defining “Creepy Treehouse” explores the pitfalls when an organisation creates an online social environment. The article defines the term “Creepy Treehouse” in several ways, including as the following:…
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