In the spirit of actually being in Canada, I learnt last Thursday that in a groundbreaking case the Canadian Supreme Court has supported two lower courts in ruling unanimously that hyperlinking to defamatory information is not the same as defaming someone, unless the information is replicated in the link or on the hyperlinker’s site or…
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…
The first web browser, appropriately named WorldWideWeb, was released publicly in August 1991 by ‘Father of the Web’ Tim Berners-Lee. While I realise this post is a month late, I thought it would still be worth wishing the web browser ‘Happy Birthday’ and commenting on the impact that web browser software has had over the…
In the run-up to the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, the organisers have developed an animated infographic showing the points of control within the digital economy. It provides an interesting perspective on which major companies provide which services and collect various types of data. Take a look over at the Web 2.0 Summit map…
Steve Davies over at OzLoop has just published a thesis by Dr Derek Ambrose that looks at the topic of leadership in the Australian public sector. It is a fascinating read (particularly from pages 68-80 and 113-185 including the conclusion from pp160), and provides insights into challenges the public sector has experienced in encouraging new…
It’s come to my attention that the BushfireConnect team were unsuccessful in securing a small grant under the National Disaster Resilience Grant Scheme to support their work in providing emergency support during Australia’s bushfire season. I’ve been told that the reason the grant was rejected was that, “as the VIC Emergency Services do not yet have a Social…
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>
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