In the run-up to the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, the organisers have developed an animated infographic showing the points of control within the digital economy. It provides an interesting perspective on which major companies provide which services and collect various types of data. Take a look over at the Web 2.0 Summit map…
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…
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…
Arthur C. Clarke, a famous science fiction and futurist once said, Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic I believe we reached that point quite some time ago in our civilisation. While most people watch television, drive cars, use electrical appliances, fly in jet aircraft, use computers and surf the internet, few understand how…
Dr Travis Kemp of the Teleran Group presented at the National Stakeholder Engagement and Community Relations Officers’ Forum 2011 in Melbourne a couple of weeks ago. He provided an interesting view on how people identify for or against certain policies and worldviews, how bad humans are at accessing risks, and illustrated how it was possible…
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…
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 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…
I’m at Media140 in Brisbane today on the panel Web 2.0 or Web too far? where six of us will be discussing how the internet can be used to “distort, misinform and distribute propaganda” and how we should use the web to democratise scientific knowledge. This is a key topic for governments as well. The…
Several people have blogged about today’s Government 2.0 lunch, and I’ve linked to their posts below. I also took some notes on Alison’s talk, as follows: Community Management Tools/tech are not community. Community is about the people and their relationships and may, or may not, be formed using all different kinds of tools. Three roles…
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