There’s been a recent effort begun to bring AIMIA (the Australian Interactive Media Industry Association) to the ACT. Coordinated by Reading Room, this is quite important to help improve education and standards in the interactive services being developed by government agencies and their agencies. To find out more, and to get involved, visit AIMIA in…
Similar to my listing of twitter accounts from Australian Federal, State and local government agencies, I’m attempting to put together a listing of Australia’s government-run Facebook pages and YouTube channels. This is a big job and I’d appreciate your help. If your agency operates one or more Facebook pages or YouTube channels, or you are…
This week a colleague made me aware of a study conducted by Nielsen in April which found that online video ads were significantly more effective than TV ads amongst US viewers. Reported at ClickZ (but for some reason not widely reported by traditional media), the article states that, The research company conducted over 14,000 surveys…
If you’re interested in advertising and maybe even watch the Gruen Transfer, don’t forget to keep an eye on their web-only content, particularly the Gruen Sessions. The latest session discusses Tourism Queensland’s “Best job in the world” campaign, one of the best examples of how to use social media to generate interest and consumer choice…
In a move designed to improve awareness and understanding of the process by which officers are trained (and encourage more quality candidates), Victoria Police is supporting one of its new Academy recruits to tweet their way through training. Announced in Victoria Police News as The Twittering recruit, Stephanie Attard begun her career as Victoria Police’s…
I’ve spoken before about the fantastic Historic Australian Newspapers archive program at the National Library to digitalise old newspapers, coupling OCR scanning with a online crowdsourcing tool that allows the public to fix mistakes in scanned text. One of the key people behind the program, Rose Holley, recently presented at Mosman Library about the initiative….
In what I believe is a world first, the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing has launched its new US$100 note, featuring Benjamin Franklin, via an online video in YouTube. Brought to my attention by Nicholas Gruen, the 82 second long production provides a clear view of all the security provisions included in the banknote….
Net Neutrality is a topic of considerable interest and discussion in the US, but rarely a topic in Australia. However it could significantly impact how the internet operated in Australia, and all other countries around the world, if the US moved away from the principle. The video below provides a definition and view in support…
This video reflects some of the sentiments I hear from time to time about young people – and provides an alternate view. Thanks to Crikey for making me aware of it:
I found out last week that Google had recently integrated YouTube with Google’s speech-text technology, allowing videos displayed on YouTube to have their captions and transcripts automatically generated. In addition, these captions and transcripts can then be translated, via Google’s text translation system, and displayed on the video in any supported language. The transcript can…
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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