When websites first starting to become popular it became common for Marketing and Communications teams in organisations to receive requests from various areas saying “we need a website”. Now that social media is firmly embedded in Australia, I’m seeing and hearing about the same type of requests – particularly for Facebook. So, drawn from a…
While not normally a fan of Christmas, I was feeling festive today, so have translated several traditional Christmas songs into their Gov 2.0 equivalents. If you have a Gov 2.0 song in your heart, fell free to share it in the comments below! Jingle bells Dashing through the net In a collaborative open sleigh O’er…
With some of the concerns and processes I’ve witnessed in government it would be easy to draw the conclusion that hundreds or even thousands of public servants are using social media daily in ways that damage the reputations of their departments and the government. Fortunately, a couple of articles I saw yesterday have given me…
I’m attending the full second day of the Social Media in Government conference, however will not be liveblogging until after morning tea as the first two presentations, on The Line (FaHCSIA) and the Don’t Turn a Night Out into a Nightmare campaign (Health and Ageing), both represent areas which I’ve blogged about before. I am,…
Tenille Bentley, founder of Socialite Media is now presenting on trends in engagement by people. She says that the amount spent by state government on online engagement vastly under-rates the proportion of people’s media time spent online (around 41%). Tenille is illustrating the falling reach of newspapers and as their circulations decline, how their ad rates…
I’m only here for a few presentations today at Informa’s Social Media in Government conference, so are blogging rather than liveblogging the presentations. First up this morning is Mia Garlick, now at Facebook and previously with experience in Commonwealth Government and with Google. She’s talking about using Facebook in government. Mia has started by talking…
Last week the Department of Human Services changed its policy regarding staff who participated in volunteer activities – unpaid work undertaken on their own time. The Department decided that, in order to protect against potential conflicts of interest, public servants had to report their volunteer activities to their Manager and seek approval to do it….
A favored term amongst political operatives and advisors is ‘oxygen,, the share of the public discussion a politician, government or issue manages to obtain. Sometimes the goal is to have the largest possible share, starving other commentators and viewpoints. Other times the goal is to to minimise the share of oxygen a viewpoint or issue…
Guest post by Steve Davies Yesterday I spend a little time getting involved in the ACT Government Twitter Cabinet. The focus was on Canberra beyond 2013. Lots of ideas and views exchanged. Through sheer serendipity one of my views on life struck a note with our Chief Minister, Katy Gallagher. So the next Twitter Cabinet…
Over the last year I’ve observed a couple of good and bad trends in governments around Australia. The first – the good trend – is towards the recognition that social media is a valid and significant channel for government communication and engagement. This has led to the creation of a new type of role, the…
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