I am presenting from 3.20pm today, and my presentation is now available on slideshare, viewable as below. Developing an agency social media infrastructure View more presentations from Craig Thomler.
I’ve taken some time off this morning to put together some extra slides for my presentation, so are not yet in the room, however have a liveblog running to capture the tweeters who are… My presentation is at 3.20pm today and will be on slideshare shortly afterwards. AMI Government Marketing Conference day 2
Hi, I’ll be liveblogging parts of the AMI Marketing and Communications Conference today and tomorrow. You can also follow the conference at the hashtag #amigov2011 AMI Government Marketing & Communications Conference
I will be liveblogging much of the Walkley Public Affairs in the Nation’s Capital conference today. See below for the liveblog, or follow the event on Twitter under the tag #wpanc. There is also a blog for the day at http://walkleypanc2011.posterous.com/ written and edited by a team made up of the Walkley Foundation’s Kylie Johnson…
With well over 20% of local governments in Australia using social media in their communication and engagement activities I’ve been please to begin seeing state Local Government Associations begin to release social media guidance papers. To my knowledge both the Municipal Association of Victoria (MAV) (whose document appears to be inaccessible online at the moment)…
I’ll be missing the Gov 2.0 conference that CeBIT is holding for the third time this October (25-26 October) due to my honeymoon. However I do recommend to others that they consider attending. In my view this is the most mature Gov 2.0 conference in Australia and has managed to step beyond the ‘101’ nature…
People invest an enormous amount of identity and personal energy into their own names. Names are our unique identifiers, defining us as separate to others – even for people with common names. So when organisations make rules about the names people can use online it can create signficant distress and dislocation for people. It also…
The ACT is holding its second Virtual Community Cabinet tonight from 7pm to 8pm, so I have again set up a livefeed to capture the tweets for the record, and to allow analysis afterwards. I am only capturing tweets including the hashtag for the event (#actvcc), so if you are participating, but don’t include the…
Last week the US East Coast experienced a 5.8 magnitude earthquake. While comparatively weak compared to quakes experienced elsewhere in the world in the last year, the event was powerful in one sense. It demonstrated the speed of social media. People in New York learnt of the quake before it actually hit, by reading the…
I’ve commented before that it isn’t a sound strategy for organisations to entrust their social media strategy to graduates, simply because they are young and “must understand social media”. I’ve also commented on the need to expand social media engagement beyond the communication team to entire organisations, within designated policies. This is because communication professionals…
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