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…
Beth Noveck, formerly the White House Deputy CTO, has published a fantastic paper on why it is so important to evolve democratic systems for the 21st century, and providing details of how a range of governments around the world are doing so. The paper is titled “Evolving democracy for the 21st Century” and is available…
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…
If you’ve not yet registered, there are still a few tickets left for the Gov 2.0 lunch in Canberra on Friday 25 November. The event will feature a presentation from Dominic Campbell, a leading UK digital government specialist and social innovator with a background in government policy, communications and technology-led change. Learn more and register here.
Many organisations still haven’t cottoned on to the influence of a number of blogs or how to appropriately approach and engage with them – including PR and advertising agencies who should know better. I was reading an excellent example of this the other week, from The Bloggess, where a PR agency not only approached with…
Crowdsourcing often seems to be a high stress area for organisations, who fear what might happen if they allowed their users to design their products and services. However what is often forgotten is that it’s not about handing over the design process, it is about sharing it as a codesign process – combining the brain…
I’ve been a little busy this week, what with my wedding on Saturday, however here, belatedly, is my presentation from last Friday at RightClick. Gov 2.0 in a gov 1.0 world View more presentations from Craig Thomler.
For the last fifteen years there’s been an interesting ‘us vs them’ going on in the world of organisations – both commercial and public sector. The distinction, real world versus online (businesses or organisations – take your pick), was made using fairly clear lines. Whether the organisation had physical shopfronts or offices you could walk…
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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