I will be making my first trip to Perth to speak at the RightClick 2011 Conference on 30 September. If you’re in town, or can make it there, I recommend that you consider attending. The event is organised by the Institute of Public Administration WA (@ipaawa) and the event hashtag is #rightClick More details below:…
July’s Gov 2.0 Canberra lunch will feature a presentation by Margaret Manning, global CEO and co-founder of Reading Room, a digital communications agency with offices in London, Manchester, Australia and Singapore. Margaret will be speaking about what comes beyond social media. Full details are below. Online Ticketing for Gov 2.0 Canberra Lunch – July 2011…
If you’re not watching the #gov2au hashtag, you might be interested in the latest support information from Twitter – how to use the service effectively for newsrooms. Twitter for Newsrooms provides information on using Twitter to search for news sources and breaking news, how to tweet effectively and engage an audience, branding, publishing via Twitter…
The EU Government’s 2009 Directive banning “unnecessary” cookies in websites (if the site doesn’t ask users to accept the cookie first) has just begun coming into effect – causing havoc and distress amongst European webmasters. Cookies are small text files that websites store on a user’s computer in order to reduce the need for users…
It can be difficult to get a perspective on the Government 2.0 activities in non-English speaking countries. However thanks to Francis Irving, who posted an account in the My Society email list in the UK, forwarded to the OpenAustralia Community list in Australia, here’s a very interesting mini case-study on one initiative in Latvia. In…
Fierce Government IT reports that Chief of US Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead says Ignoring social media is a ‘strategic error of the most basic nature’. In the US the military has been an active adopter of social media, with online channels seen as a critical theatre of influence. Most members of the US armed…
Davied van Berlo‘s two books “Civil Servant 2.0” and “Civil Servant 2.0 beta” have finally been translated into English and are available online for free. I’ve admired and followed the work of Davied, a Dutch Civil Servant, for several years now. Davied has been using the internet for about as long as I have and…
Thanks to links from John Sheridan (@sherro58) and Kerry Webb (@kwebb), I’ve been reading some of the latest articles and blog posts talking about Twitter. They attempt to analyse and ‘place’ Twitter on the spectrum of human communication – discussing whether the service is more like text or like speech. They also discuss the potential…
A couple of weeks ago I blogged about 21st Century society vs 19th Century laws and policing. My post discussed the interview and arrest of Ben Grubb, an Australian Technology Journalist, by Queensland Police in the context of the challenges for legislators and law enforcement in remaining current and relevant in a quickly digitalising world….
A few weeks ago the Department of Defence announced it had selected the advertising agency, George Patterson Y&R to conduct a review of social media risks. This followed the Skype scandal in April this year where several male Defense Force cadets conspired to broadcast a female cadet having consensual sex without her knowledge to half…
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