Tag Archives: engagement

Networked citizens

November 2, 2008 – 7:10 pm

Demos, the UK think tank, this week published a pamphlet on the impact of social networks in the workplace. Called Network Citizens, the report is a qualitative study of six workplaces that documents their internal and external networks. Unsurprisingly, much of the focus is on the role of technology, and how it is changing the [...]

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Citizens’ views on Govt 2.0

July 6, 2008 – 4:58 pm

Colin McKay posted earlier this week about a fascinating piece of research published by the Canadian government. The paper, New Technologies and GC Communications [Word], is the first phase (the qualitative) of a survey into Canadians views on their government’s use of Web 2.0 technologies.
There are a couple of points that the survey throws up [...]

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The future of communications

May 11, 2008 – 4:13 pm

For the last couple of months I have been focusing on (what I hope has been) a less technical and more strategic approach to public sector communications; with a particular emphasis on using change management as the context for understanding what social media and govt 2.0 mean for our agencies.
This has been motivated partly by [...]

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Social media disclaimers

November 11, 2007 – 2:56 pm

I have been wondering why it is that we are all working ourselves into early graves trying to transform government, the achievement of which will largely be driven by Internet based technologies, and yet we continue to disclaim the content we post to our websites?
It strikes me as being analogous to saying to someone who [...]

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Social media and degrees of control

September 1, 2007 – 2:23 pm

On a recent edition of their excellent podcast, Inside PR, Terry Fallis and David Jones suggested five questions that you would want to ask your PR agency before you signed them to help you out with a social media campaign or project. I would recommend that you listen to the whole show, but to cut [...]

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