Fresh+New, a blog written by Seb Chan from the Powerhouse Museum, has brought to my attention Aza Raskin’s Ubiquity, a very interested look at the possible web of the future, using semantic browsers to provide a more connected experience. More details are in Seb’s post, More powerful browsers – Mozilla Labs Ubiquity, or on Aza’s…
Related to my previous post, AZcentral reports that, Death notices removed from county Web site. Privacy concerns and identity-theft fears prompted Maricopa County Recorder Helen Purcell to halt public viewing of death certificates on the agency’s Web site. “There is so much personal information on them: a mother’s maiden name, what they died from,” Purcell…
Over in California a controversy over the level of public access to public information flared up where the The Bee newspaper in Sacremento published a searchable online database of public sector officials and their salaries. The newspaper simply pulled publicly available information together into a single source – no information was assumed or obtained illegally. This has…
Brought to my attention by the Victorian eGovernment Resource Centre, the below video from Shel Holzman provides an excellent summary of the value of social media as an set of egovernment tools within government intranets. It addresses common misunderstandings and myths that have limited take-up, case studies of successful social media use and talks through…
A-Space, an online collaborative space for US intelligence operatives, is planned for launch this month, giving all 16 US intelligence agencies a streamlined and effective tool for sharing information and collaborating – activities that have been criticised as previously lacking across US intelligence initiatives.As reported in FCW.com, in the article, A-Space set to launch this…
As I mentioned at the end of my earlier post about the Googlisation of the US election, we’re now entering a phase in the internet’s development where it is shifting from being a media channel towards a service channel. Many organisations in the private sector have already recognised this and I am seeing the beginnings…
Jonathan Zittrain’s new book, The future of the internet – and how to stop it, presents a compelling picture of how the internet has evolved from the ‘sterile’ and unchangeable computer systems of the 1960s and 70s into a ‘generative’ environment, enabling individuals around the world to freely develop applications and services and distribute them…
I’ve been reading a fantastic book recommended to me by my DGM, What Got You Here Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith. It discusses 20 habits that hold back successful people and key behavioural changes that can help overcome them. One behaviour discussed is listening, where Marshall makes the statement, 80 percent of our…
I’d like to thank Kate Carruthers, a formidable change agent and renaissance woman, for prompting this post through a presentation she’s published on SlideShare, Enterprise 2.0 and stakeholder resistance. One of my key roles and, I believe, a key role for many in the online arena, is to be a change agent for digital channels….
As reported in Government Technology, California has launched a best practices wiki for state employees. It currently covers topics including: Healthcare in Prisons Customer Service Disaster Preparedness Education and Training Green California Human Resources Information Technology The wiki can be accessed at bestpractices.ca.gov, although it requires a California email address to register. There’s an interesting…
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