One of the hardest aspects of coming to terms with the changes that social media are bringing to our working environment, particularly for public sector communicators, is exercising the sort of judgement that ensures the tools are deployed appropriately and support the overall communications and business objectives.
While in Australia this week, I came across a [...]
The State Services Commission today released the new version of the New Zealand Government Web Standards, version 1.0. The new standards draw heavily upon the previous document, the Web Guidelines v2.1, however there are some significant differences that should be of interest to public sector communicators who have responsibility for creating and maintaining web content.
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March 15, 2007 – 12:36 pm
I have finally come across a copy of Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Government, 2006 (no link: subscription only). And while I am not a big fan of their literature – I find the hype cycle is too IT focussed and lacks a wider perspective – I thought that I might share a few (belated) observations [...]
February 23, 2007 – 9:23 am
The excellent Read/WriteWeb (a blog that anyone interested in communications and technology should be reading daily) is running coverage of the Future of Web Apps 2007 Conference in London, and yesterday in their post one line really made me stop. Under the section entitled ‘The Mobile Web’ they note that:
A very interesting fact that is [...]
February 2, 2007 – 3:32 pm
Yesterdays post about social tools in newspapers got me thinking about the prevalence of RSS feeds in the government namespace. I was saying that RSS was now mainstream and that it was only a matter of time before all our feed stats were going through the roof. Mmm, not quite.
I did a quick whip around [...]
January 26, 2007 – 11:38 am
This week has been a hard one for the New Zealand public sector as it comes to terms with social media. The furore over the blog critical of Child, Youth and Family Services (part of the Ministry of Social Development) has highlighted how much all of us, as public sector communicators, need to learn to [...]
December 13, 2006 – 1:39 pm
There has been quite a bit of discussion in the blogosphere about the social media release and its subsequent adoption by some of the big PR firms. And, as some agencies here are starting to use microformatted information in other applications, I thought it might be interesting to look at what these standards mean for [...]
By Jason Ryan
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Posted in Communications, Public affairs, Social media, Web standards
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Also tagged data, govt2.0, hcal, hcard, hrelease, microformats, pr, rss, Social media, social media release
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September 29, 2006 – 3:05 pm
Russell Brown said, during his talk last Friday – and I am paraphrasing because, unlike the more diligent among you, I wasn’t taking notes (if you want to write in and correct the record, please do) – that he thought RSS was going to play a huge part of the future of the web. I [...]
