The infogram provides some excellent suggestions on the strengths and weaknesses of various social media services and when to use each.
Find out more at Mashable: http://mashable.com/2012/04/16/social-networks-tips-infographic/
The Queensland State Archives recently commissioned a whole of Government Recordkeeping and Web 2.0 online survey to investigate how Queensland’s public authorities were using Web 2.0 and social media2 tools to conduct government business. The survey also asked public authorities about the policies and procedures they had in place to guide the business use of…
Dave Fletcher has published a post on his Government and Technology Weblog about how the community is making use of Utah government traffic data to create innovative tools to help drivers. Covered in If it could all be so effective as this, Dave covers how the information is shared with the public – much in…
A favored term amongst political operatives and advisors is ‘oxygen,, the share of the public discussion a politician, government or issue manages to obtain. Sometimes the goal is to have the largest possible share, starving other commentators and viewpoints. Other times the goal is to to minimise the share of oxygen a viewpoint or issue…
We’ve finished up Pat’s workshop with a discussion of potential future projects, working on a Citizen 2.0 basis. Three we discussed are listed below… Future project ideas Save me Personal safety initiative – a smartphone application with a single red button ‘save me’. If you believe you are in danger you press the button. It…
Below is a list of GovHacks entries including links to their live or temporary prototype sites. I’ve linked Hack names to their record in the GovHack site. Note that live sites may not remain live for long, so some links may be broken. 100 Years by Code Cadets A day in the Life by The…
On the internet, as they say, no-one knows if you’re a dog – or a government agency. This can become a problem when Facebook pages, Twitter accounts, even websites, are set up that look like government accounts, but aren’t. We’ve seen this issue in the private sector, such as with fake Shell accounts that took in…
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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