I’ve been watching the campaign for the Democratic nomination for the US presidency with ‘shock and awe’. This has been the first election to see social media become a significant factor in the outcome – even (in many commentators’ opinions) the deciding factor. There has been very little coverage of this in Australia and I’m…
Blogging cannot really be seen as a fringe activity anymore, with over 112 million blogs in existence around the world (as counted by Technorati, the world’s leading blog tracker). Within this number there are a number of blogs written by senior executives, public officials and politicians. However these ‘official’ blogs are rarer than hen’s teeth…
Here’s a very interesting presentation from Linkedin‘s Principal Software Engineer, Nick Dellamaggiore, exploring the ‘guts’ of one of my favourite networking sites. It provides some insight into what is required to deliver an effective social media site. Note that it is technically orientated, so can be hard to follow without the context of the speaker….
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…
Commoncraft have made another fantastic video, this time focusing on Social Media. This (older) presentation is also a great Dummie’s Guide to social media: Social Media and Marketing: Evolution or Revolution?
I have been working on building the correct conditions for intranet blogging within my agency. This has involved introducing the concept (or ‘meme‘) into the collective consciousness of key managers over the last twelve months, through; forwarding links to online blogs which were of interest to individual managers, publicising the increasing use of the agency’s…
I’ve never liked the term Web 2.0, but it’s become established as the ‘in term’ for websites involving more than flat pages and information. These days everyone wants to be seen to be doing Web 2.0 – even when they are not. But what really IS Web 2.0? What separates the sites that are really…
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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