“We are all cyborgs now” claims Amber Case in her January 2011 TED Director Talk (see her video below). The concept of humans as purely biological beings ended long ago, potentially 3,000 years ago, with the first documented prosthetic limb on an Egyptian Mummy. However the widespread use of mechanical or electronic devices to aid…
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…
You may still have time to consider attending the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance and the Walkley Foundation’s Public Affairs Conference in Canberra from 5-6 September this year. The conference has a significant Government 2.0 and open government flavour, looking at the new toolkit of digital communication and engagement options available to public relations professionals…
One of the largest challenges for all forms of online use by government is how, as a late addition to the communications, engagement and policy stable of tools, web initiatives often get added to the end of processes rather than the beginning. A good example is in content development of all kinds. Often officers across…
I will be making my first trip to Perth to speak at the RightClick 2011 Conference on 30 September. If you’re in town, or can make it there, I recommend that you consider attending. The event is organised by the Institute of Public Administration WA (@ipaawa) and the event hashtag is #rightClick More details below:…
Recently Luke Fretwell over at Govfresh asked the question Time for government to plug into one platform? While I am a big fan of Luke’s and agree with his view that transferring government websites to Facebook, granting partial control over them to a foreign-jurisdiction company, is not a good idea, I find it harder to…
I am spending the day at the Institute of Public Administration Australia’s (IPAA) NSW State Conference, which is themed “The future course of modern government”. There’s a packed room and a great speaker lineup, featuring commentators such as Ross Dawson and Martin Stewart-Weeks, leading (past) public servants such as Peter Shergold and the Premier of…
Ovum has published an interesting article by Steve Hodgkinson on Co-production: the new face of public services. In the article Hodgkinson concludes that, Agencies now need to nurture and embrace co-production by design, or risk either failing to harness this new resource or being left behind like old-style monopolists in an increasingly dynamic and competitive…
If you’re not watching the #gov2au hashtag, you might be interested in the latest support information from Twitter – how to use the service effectively for newsrooms. Twitter for Newsrooms provides information on using Twitter to search for news sources and breaking news, how to tweet effectively and engage an audience, branding, publishing via Twitter…
The EU Government’s 2009 Directive banning “unnecessary” cookies in websites (if the site doesn’t ask users to accept the cookie first) has just begun coming into effect – causing havoc and distress amongst European webmasters. Cookies are small text files that websites store on a user’s computer in order to reduce the need for users…
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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