With the release of News Ltd’s Future of journalism ‘discussion’ I’ve submitted a ‘Your view’ to the site which may, or may not, be published at some point in the future. On the basis that traditional media is no longer the gatekeeper for participation in public debate I have posted my submission below. I see…
As this article in Fast Company illustrates, social media is now normal, an integrated set of tools for ongoing human interaction. We’ve known for several years that Australians are enormous users of social media, with Nielsen research indicating that the average Australian Internet user (and 95% of us are users based on Sensis figures) spends…
Crowdsourcing often seems to be a high stress area for organisations, who fear what might happen if they allowed their users to design their products and services. However what is often forgotten is that it’s not about handing over the design process, it is about sharing it as a codesign process – combining the brain…
I’ve been a little busy this week, what with my wedding on Saturday, however here, belatedly, is my presentation from last Friday at RightClick. Gov 2.0 in a gov 1.0 world View more presentations from Craig Thomler.
For the last fifteen years there’s been an interesting ‘us vs them’ going on in the world of organisations – both commercial and public sector. The distinction, real world versus online (businesses or organisations – take your pick), was made using fairly clear lines. Whether the organisation had physical shopfronts or offices you could walk…
I’m at TEDxCanberra 2011 today liveblogging the event. It is also being livestreamed via the website, tedxcanberra.org and can be followed on Twitter at the hashtag #TEDxCanberra. What’s TEDx? A global phenomenon that you can learn more about here. <p>&amp;lt;a href=”http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php/option=com_mobile/task=viewaltcast/altcast_code=fb02cee5a7″ &amp;gt;TEDx Canberra 2011&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;</p>
In what I believe might be a first in Australia, the ACT Government has released the requirements and wireframes for its upcoming open government website for public scrutiny and comment at its Time to Talk website. Essentially the ACT government has decided to allow the community to give feedback on the upcoming website’s proposed functionality…
There seems to be a consistent supply of people new to Government 2.0 filtering through the various events I track around Australia. Whether commercial conferences, ‘Masterclasses’, government-supported events or university courses – many (though not all) now providing decent ‘101’ or introductory information and case studies on social media use for government and even on…
I’ve run the conversation from the ACT Virtual Community Cabinet, held yesterday, through some statistical systems to look at how the event went. Based on the CoverItLive session I recorded, there were 92 participants using the #ACTvcc hashtag between the beginning and the end of the Virtual Community Cabinet. I excluded conversations outside the period…
Below is a live feed of the ACT Virtual Community Cabinet, on from 12.30pm to 1:30pm today, Tuesday 26 July, 2011 By capturing the tweets via CoverItLive they’re stored publicly beyond the lifespan for tweets. UPDATE: Due to load issues with my blog I’ve removed the CoverItLive replay from this post. My archive of the…
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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