Comments on: Government social media release [gamma] http://www.psnetwork.org.nz/blog/2008/03/16/govt-smr-gamma/ The public affairs practice in New Zealand Government Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:03:53 +1300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Mike Riversdale http://www.psnetwork.org.nz/blog/2008/03/16/govt-smr-gamma/comment-page-1/#comment-328 Mike Riversdale Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:11:36 +0000 http://www.psnetwork.org.nz/blog/2008/03/16/govt-smr-gamma/#comment-328 This is one of the situations where a computer could actually help ... if only those that write CMS (and the like) incorporate the functionality - it'll come as the likes of Yahoo! and Google start to support/push it AND browsers start to display/use it. I think then people will see the benefit to themselves and then out to the wider world of 'data sharing' Could be a little like "RSS" - the technology is irrelevant to the users as automagically it starts to "appear" This is one of the situations where a computer could actually help … if only those that write CMS (and the like) incorporate the functionality – it’ll come as the likes of Yahoo! and Google start to support/push it AND browsers start to display/use it.

I think then people will see the benefit to themselves and then out to the wider world of ‘data sharing’

Could be a little like “RSS” – the technology is irrelevant to the users as automagically it starts to “appear”

]]> By: Jason Ryan http://www.psnetwork.org.nz/blog/2008/03/16/govt-smr-gamma/comment-page-1/#comment-330 Jason Ryan Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:49:58 +0000 http://www.psnetwork.org.nz/blog/2008/03/16/govt-smr-gamma/#comment-330 <p>Thanks Mike. Doing it is the easy part: convincing others to seize the nettle is a little more challenging...</p> Thanks Mike. Doing it is the easy part: convincing others to seize the nettle is a little more challenging…

]]> By: Mike Riversdale http://www.psnetwork.org.nz/blog/2008/03/16/govt-smr-gamma/comment-page-1/#comment-329 Mike Riversdale Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:30:16 +0000 http://www.psnetwork.org.nz/blog/2008/03/16/govt-smr-gamma/#comment-329 Top work and very Agile of you ("just do it" and all that). I totally agree with your 3 points about why use micro formats - it makes the information far more available, findable and most importantly usable. Usable in ways we cannot think of at the moment. Top work and very Agile of you (”just do it” and all that).

I totally agree with your 3 points about why use micro formats – it makes the information far more available, findable and most importantly usable. Usable in ways we cannot think of at the moment.

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