The Open Government Partnership is “a global effort to make governments better“, led by Brazil and the USA. The concept was announced a few months ago and countries have been rapidly signing up to the commitments required to demonstrate their willingness to take action to improve transparency and accountability in government. As their website states,…
I’ve been watching, and participating, in some of the discussions around whether government agencies and entire governments should centralise or decentralise their web presence. For some reason a number, such as the UK government, South Australia and the ACT, have decided that centralising all their websites into a single portal is the right approach, although…
I’ve been pinged by Pia Waugh to liveblog today’s GovCamp AU event. What is a GovCamp? The official definition is: GovCamp is an event in the spirit of BarCamp for governments and other public institutions to share social and technology solutions to turn them into Government 2.0. Note this won’t be a full view on…
I am presenting from 3.20pm today, and my presentation is now available on slideshare, viewable as below. Developing an agency social media infrastructure View more presentations from Craig Thomler.
I’ve taken some time off this morning to put together some extra slides for my presentation, so are not yet in the room, however have a liveblog running to capture the tweeters who are… My presentation is at 3.20pm today and will be on slideshare shortly afterwards. AMI Government Marketing Conference day 2
Hi, I’ll be liveblogging parts of the AMI Marketing and Communications Conference today and tomorrow. You can also follow the conference at the hashtag #amigov2011 AMI Government Marketing & Communications Conference
With well over 20% of local governments in Australia using social media in their communication and engagement activities I’ve been please to begin seeing state Local Government Associations begin to release social media guidance papers. To my knowledge both the Municipal Association of Victoria (MAV) (whose document appears to be inaccessible online at the moment)…
I’ll be missing the Gov 2.0 conference that CeBIT is holding for the third time this October (25-26 October) due to my honeymoon. However I do recommend to others that they consider attending. In my view this is the most mature Gov 2.0 conference in Australia and has managed to step beyond the ‘101’ nature…
The ACT is holding its second Virtual Community Cabinet tonight from 7pm to 8pm, so I have again set up a livefeed to capture the tweets for the record, and to allow analysis afterwards. I am only capturing tweets including the hashtag for the event (#actvcc), so if you are participating, but don’t include the…
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…
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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