I’ve been following the blog of the Hon Penny Sharp MLC, Red Leather, as one of the best examples in government of blogging and a strong proponent of the use of the online channel. In late October she gave a speech to the NSW Parliament regarding the level of online engagement by NSW MLCs. Published…
I’ve been reading an article in the New York Times regarding the public competition Netflix has been holding. The competition, named the Netflix Prize, has a prize of US$1 million for the individual or group who can improve their movie/TV recommendations engine by 10%. The article, If you liked this, sure to like that, discusses…
Neil Williams of Mission Creep has published an interesting question around how government should use twitter in a post, Government Twitter etiquette: talk but don’t follow. It talks about the agency twitter account his employer runs – which is working well – and whether they should ‘follow’ others (which allows you to see what others…
Nick over in the WA egovernment blog Web 2.0 showcase, posted an excellent article back in August entitled, Selling the idea of a social media strategy. This focused on approaches for encouraging government departments to look at social media – at least as a research tool to understand what people were saying. Nick referred to…
It has always struck me as a little contradictory that while one of the government’s primary goals is to build citizen awareness of various services, issues, initiatives and opportunities, at the same time many government communications and publications (than need to be) are protected under rigid copyright disclaimers. I’ve even seen situations where government agencies…
The other day I absentmindedly typed in ‘victoria.gov.au’ to go to the Victorian state government’s main site. However I was surprised when my browser threw up an error, saying there was no such site. I realised my mistake, it should have been vic.gov.au instead, however this got me thinking about all those people in Australia…
This is based on some thinking (and rewriting of a reply) around a post by Stephen Collins from Acidlabs on the topic of how and why to implement ‘Enterprise 2.0 technologies in organisations, entitled Enterprise 2.0 – Identify problem. Determine solution. Then tools. Stephen was making a good point – that it is important to…
Today I welcome a post from guest blogger Cheryl Hardy, of the Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development (DIIRD), State Government of Victoria, Victoria, Australia. Cheryl manages eGovernment Research in DIIRD and is a prime operative behind the Victorian eGovernment Resource Centre, which was one of the global top ten nominees for the World…
The British government is funding a campaign, CivicSurf to teach British local politicians how to blog. It would also be useful to public servants in understanding and communicating the benefits of blogging (as well as how to become bloggers themselves). Thanks to Stap isi for referring me to the site. The campaign includes the website,…
If you’re interested in web metrics, pop over and complete the 3rd annual Australian Web Analytics survey at Bienalto‘s website. Respondents will receive a copy of the survey results, which should provide insights into how your organisation compares to others in their use and prioritisation of web analytics area. The 2006 and 2007 survey results…
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