I was able to take part in an inpromptu live online video and text discussion this morning between Congressman John Culberson of Texas and initially with the Managing Editor of the Wall Street Journal, and then with Grover Norquist, the President of Americans against Tax Reform (pictured below) at a fund raising event in the…
Universal McCann have completed some excellent research on social media use based on a sample of 17,000 users across 29 countries. The latest wave was completed in March 2008. The key findings were that blogs and online videos have gone mainstream and are tools that organisations need to consider within their marketing and communications mix….
My agency spends a lot of money learning about our customers with the goal of identifying how to provide them with better services. These research processes quite often lead to huge presentations full of statistics that attempt to explain customer intentions and motivations. If you have a maths bent, these presentations speak very loudly –…
Maybe not – if this ITnews article Study says the 2007 ‘YouTube election’ is a misnomer is correct. Of course, even using YouTube, Australia is a long way behind the eObama campaign in the US.
My agency, due to various factors outside direct control, has long had a reluctance to consider the use of Adobe Flash (previously Macromedia Flash) in our intranet or websites. I can understand this – there are network and security considerations that need resolution, and Flash has only been around since 1996 (well OK I don’t…
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…
One of the most difficult tasks for anyone working in the online industry is to bring along an internal audience who are not ‘digital natives’. This often includes the people who control the purse strings in organisations, who do not quite get how these newfangled digital toys work – or that they are business tools…
This is the next generation of teleconferencing – telepresence via holographic meetings – where people from somewhere else in the world appear right in the room with you (or in this case on the stage). All using internet IP-based standards. Think of the travel savings! No sense of smell yet though! http://www.musionmedia.co.uk/cisco_day.html And an article…
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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