About this time last year Laurel Papworth reported that Facebook listed over 2 million Australians as members in a post in her blog titled, Australia has over 2 million Facebook members. I’ve just rechecked this figure, using the same approach as Laurel (via Facebook’s ad tool), and found that Facebook now lists 4,252,860 Australian members…
Given that a case study on Mosman council is being included in today’s Web 2.0 in Government seminar being run by AGIMO, I thought it was worth referring people to this article in Govtech by Bill Shrier, the CTO of Seattle. The article, per its title, discusses How Web 2.0 will transform local councils. Rightly…
Ari Herzog has begun a series on social media best practice in his blog, AriWriter. Kicking it off is a fascinating interview with Utah’s Chief Information Officer, David Fletcher, providing an insight into how Utah has implemented its online strategy, taking it to win the Best of the Web award for US state governments twice…
President-elect Barack Obama built his campaign on change, and is demonstrating an ongoing commitment to this approach via the site Change.gov. It’s a great living case study on how a government can engage its citizens online in a constructive way.
Paul Johnston, posting at TheConnectedRepublic, has brought to my attention the following video and report on the rise of the video republic. This looks at how people – particularly young people – are using online video to express their views, share opinions and shape the world views of their generation. It’s a fascinating watch and…
Following in the footsteps of other world leaders, today Prime Minister Kevin Rudd launched an official presence on Twitter (at @KevinRuddPM). For the unfamiliar, Twitter is a free ‘micro-blogging’ service which allows users to exchange short updates (up to 140 characters long), termed ‘Tweets’ in a way similar to SMS. Unlike SMS, these updates are…
The British government is funding a campaign, CivicSurf to teach British local politicians how to blog. It would also be useful to public servants in understanding and communicating the benefits of blogging (as well as how to become bloggers themselves). Thanks to Stap isi for referring me to the site. The campaign includes the website,…
A debate has been going on in Europe recently regarding which comes first – successful Web 2.0 egovernment, or citizen-centric and transparent government. One argument goes that government must first undergo cultural change in order to deliver effective Web 2.0 services. The other is that government will undergo cultural change through releasing Web 2.0 services….
I’m glad to see that blogging is beginning to become a more used tool within the Australian public sector, with the ABS launching Statistically Speaking, a blog for libraries in September, the Training.gov.au Project Blog having been running since June this year (with a Twitter feed since October at @TrainingGovAu) and Stap isi, a blog…
JD Stanley of Cisco has published a very interesting initial paper on ‘digital swarming‘, an approach towards the use of collective intelligence to generate higher quality and faster decisions – with particular relevance to the public sector. To quote, Digital Swarming is about a digitally connected human and machine world. A world where dynamically forming,…
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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