Marketing just isn’t the same anymore – customers are harder to reach, they trust brands less and spend their time listening to each other rather than to media or to corporate or government marketers and communicators. Yet many comms and marketing people are still stuck on the ‘shout louder and longer‘ theory. If someone isn’t…
Comscore’s media release last week indicated that Global Internet Audience Surpasses 1 billion Visitors, According to comScore. While this is probably an understatement, as it only accounts for those aged 15+, the release highlighted the increasing diversity of internet users, with China very clearly in the top spot with 179,100,000 users, compared to the 2nd…
The music industry has a maxim – most people prefer to buy and listen to the music they listened to in their late teens or early twenties. Of course they still listen to, enjoy and buy other music, but at the end of the day the Beatles, BeeGees, ABBA, the Rolling Stones and other bands…
While on the topic of OpenAustralia, on 5 January the site became the first website to make the (Federal) Register of Senators’ Interests available online. Quoting from OpenAustralia’s news item, Read the Register of Senators’ Interests here, Today is a big milestone. We are the first website to make the Register of Senators’ Interests available…
Instantiate has posted an audio interview (MP3 podcast – 34Mb) with the founders of OpenAustralia, a non-partisan, website run by a group of volunteers site which aims to make it easy for people to keep tabs on their representatives in Australian Parliament. The interview provides an insight into why volunteers establish this type of site,…
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…
I was recently alerted to the Queensland government’s Share My Story website, which invites individuals to share their stories of road tragedies in order to help others rethink their conduct on the road and avoid future traffic injuries and deaths. In my opinion Share My Story is an amazingly good website and a model for…
The European eProcurement forum (an initiative supported by the European Commission) is seeking to build international ties to improve its understanding and build collective knowledge about what is occuring in the eprocurement field, what works and what doesn’t work in different jurisdictions around the world. If you’re involved or interested in eprocurement, check them out…
Dave Fletcher has published a post on his Government and Technology Weblog about how the community is making use of Utah government traffic data to create innovative tools to help drivers. Covered in If it could all be so effective as this, Dave covers how the information is shared with the public – much in…
The new Smart Regions website showcases 40 European egovernment initiatives between 2002 and 2007. One of the primary messages of the site is the need for government to connect and work together, across teams, agencies, departments, levels of government, with business and with community. Only by doing so can states and councils become more productive…
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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