The future of publishing – perhaps
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:
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Vote for your favourite NSW Apps – closes 22 March
Public voting is now open for Apps4NSW, but only until Monday 22 March. So if you wanted to check out and vote for applications submitted to the competition, go to the Apps4NSW public voting site. EDIT: Note that it was entries that closed 22 March. Public voting remains open until 9 April.
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Report: Real (political and government) Leaders Tweet
The Digital Policy Council at Digital Daya has released a thought-provoking report on the incidence of social media use by government leadership around the world, characterised through the use of Twitter, entitled Real Leaders Tweet (PDF) Considering the 163 countries recognised by the United Nations, the report indicates that 24 (15%) already have leaders or…
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Why not make your department’s public presentations public?
Every years there are many conferences, forums and other publicly orientated events where public servants speak – providing views on their activities, successes and learnings across a wide-range of professional disciples. The conference I have been at the last two days, FutureGov Hong Kong, is one example of these – where three Australian public servants…
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FutureGov Hong Kong – Day 2 LiveBlog
We’ve just started day 2 of FutureGov Hong Kong FutureGov Hong Kong – Day 2 LiveBlog
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There’s an online social network for everyone
The next time you or your colleagues dismiss the idea of attempting to develop a social networking strategy for a niche audience, consider that the internet is big enough (with over a billion users) for there to be many niche communities for unusual passions. Network World recently published an article, Ten of the World’s Strangest…
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LinkedIn reaches a million Australian members
Most people have heard that Facebook has around 8 million active Australian accounts, and MySpace has around 2.9 million, but yesterday I was sent an email that took me a little by surprise. Apparently LinkedIn, a professional social network, has just reached a million Australian members. Now I can’t verify the truth of this, however…
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Where’s the payoff? Convincing citizens to engage with government
Governments regularly hold consultations with their public – asking them for their views on matters as widespread as tax reform, copyright, health, culture and city planning. Whether these consultations are held through public events, print notices, online via email or social media engagement there’s one constant that governments rely on – that people are willing…
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Social media nightmares
Inventorspot has compiled a list of ten of the top branded social media nightmares. These are situations where organisations or their staff have been caught behaving badly, where social media campaigns went past the line of good taste or where organisations failed to get onto social media and were not able to become part of…
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How governments can use gameplay to educate and upskill a community
I’m a big fan for the use of gameplay to encourage people to explore concepts, test ideas, build skills and model behaviours while generating awareness – however it is a tool that I have not seen exploited anywhere near to the extent it could be in government or most commercial organisations in Australia (and yes…