The Victorian government has published the Intranet Information Architecture Best Practice Analysis report, conducted by the IA Strategy project team in the Web Domain Group, Department of Human Services (DHS) Victoria. The analysis is available in summary and in full from the eGovernment Resource centre. One of the writers of the report, Suze Ingram, has…
Co-incidental to my post about Twitter on Friday, in the UK the TweetMinister site has launched as a central way to track UK Members of Parliament using Twitter. It’s a very slick looking site, developed as a public service initiative by private organisations, designed to allow members of the public to view what MPs are…
Public Sector Marketing 2.0 has published an online video looking at the process government would go through if it was first inventing a STOP sign for traffic intersections. While cynical, perhaps there’s a few grains of truth in the message that sometimes in government we focus on our own importance and processes to the expense…
Back on 8 December the APSC released Circular 2008/8: Interim protocols for online media participation. I was waiting to hear about them officially before posting about them. However as I’ve not yet seen any coverage through these channels, I figured that it was time to post about them to raise some awareness for those of…
I’m closely watching (and reading) the new Department of Broadband and the Digital Economy blog. It is seeing a number of thoughtful and constructive comments from organisations and individuals. The blog is highlighting to me one of the often overlooked key issues for organisations when implementing Web 2.0 tools – resourcing. With 912 published comments…
In one of the more misguided approaches to internet regulation, the UK government banned the majority of UK citizens from editing Wikipedia earlier this week. This was done, according to the SMH article, Wikipedia added to child pornography blacklist, due to the identification of a photo in one article (of the more than 2.6 million…
The eGovernment Resource Centre has tipped me off that the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy has set up a consultative Future directions blog for two weeks with the purpose of soliciting public comments that will contribute to the development of a Future directions paper for the digital economy. It’s good to see…
It can be a challenge for government agencies to get the level of buyin required to build or buy the infrastructure required for online consultation. Questions get asked at senior levels around security and privacy, the risk of consultations being hijacked, the level of resourcing required, the concern about publicly getting few (relevant)responses or contrarywise…
I’ve been following the blog of the Hon Penny Sharp MLC, Red Leather, as one of the best examples in government of blogging and a strong proponent of the use of the online channel. In late October she gave a speech to the NSW Parliament regarding the level of online engagement by NSW MLCs. Published…
I’ve been reading an article in the New York Times regarding the public competition Netflix has been holding. The competition, named the Netflix Prize, has a prize of US$1 million for the individual or group who can improve their movie/TV recommendations engine by 10%. The article, If you liked this, sure to like that, discusses…
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