Twitter tactics – demystifying Twitter
Earlier tonight I gave a presentation at Parliament House about the workings and uses for Twitter in government.
I’ve shared the presentation below.
Earlier tonight I gave a presentation at Parliament House about the workings and uses for Twitter in government.
I’ve shared the presentation below.
I will be liveblogging much of the Walkley Public Affairs in the Nation’s Capital conference today. See below for the liveblog, or follow the event on Twitter under the tag #wpanc. There is also a blog for the day at http://walkleypanc2011.posterous.com/ written and edited by a team made up of the Walkley Foundation’s Kylie Johnson…
As the world’s largest hackathon, GovHack is on at over 25 locations across Australia and New Zealand again this year from Friday 6pm this week until Sunday afternoon (28-30 July). With over 3,000 participants and 437 completed projects in 2016, GovHack is an opportunity to develop prototypes of new services, visualisations and mashups with government…
The complexity of screens and the registration and sign-in processes for some Australian egovernment (online) services disturbs me. In the commercial world I lived by a simple rule of thumb, on average each hurdle I erected between a customer and their goal reduced the overall number of customers who reached their goal by 30%. To…
I’m not a fan of terms such as Web 2.0, which seems to refer to any internet development since 2001. The web is an evolving medium, just like any other. We don’t see the term ‘Television 2.0’ (or 5.0 considering all the generational changes) used to refer to reality TV. I’m even less comfortable with…
2009 has been called the year of mobile internet – and with good reason. The iPhone has become the fastest adopted consumer electronics product in history. Google’s Android has become a serious mobile platform and smartphones of every shade have continued to multiple exponentially. The mobile internet has been growing faster than any digital platform…
In 2011 an IBM computer, Watson, beat human competitors at Jeopardy! This was a new landmark in artificial intelligence – a computer capable of correctly responding to plain English questions, in real time, by figuring out their intent. At the time Watson was a computer as big as a room, and it was the only…
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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