There is some exciting activity happening in the Australian eGovernment scene. States such as Victoria, Queensland and WA have taken major steps to standardise their online approaches across departments. At local level South Australia has introduced a phenomenal content management system that allows every council to have a well structured website, providing access to the…
I found this an interesting article on a systemic way to manage taxonomy creep. Managing taxonomies
As always James from Step Two Designs is both thought provoking and slightly controversial in his down-to-earth approach in this presentation, The four purposes of an intranet. Content Communication Collaboration Activity He makes a very good case for the areas which deliver the most ROI for an organisation. It comes with voiceover which makes it…
I have been working on building the correct conditions for intranet blogging within my agency. This has involved introducing the concept (or ‘meme‘) into the collective consciousness of key managers over the last twelve months, through; forwarding links to online blogs which were of interest to individual managers, publicising the increasing use of the agency’s…
FYI See the presentation I gave – Game Design (from the school of hard knocks) A colleague alerted me to the upcoming Canberra BarCamp at the ANU the other week and it was fortunately on an otherwise free weekend. While I wasn’t quite sure what to expect, and my colleague fell sick at the last…
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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