Tag Archives: govt2.0

BarCamp comes to Wellington

August 13, 2007 – 8:42 pm

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, BarCamp is coming to the Shaky Isles. The inaugural New Zealand BarCamp unconference is going to be held in Wellington on Saturday, September 15. The theme of the event is loosely based around the concept of Govt 2.0; loosely because it is really up to whoever shows up on the day [...]

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The value of government information

June 10, 2007 – 1:27 pm

The UK Cabinet Office has just released an independent review it commissioned into the ways government can better enable the public to access and reuse its information. The Power of Information [PDF 280 KB], co-authored by the founder and director of mySociety – a charitable project that connects people with their governments and communities, [...]

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5 principles for Govt 2.0

April 29, 2007 – 7:46 pm

Che Tibby’s great post this week about how government can/should interact with people via the Internet, Free on the Range, throws up some very interesting issues and, for me, some questions about what it is we mean when we talk about Govt 2.0 (government in the Web 2.0 age).
Given that Web 2.0 is a term [...]

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Principles for public sector social media

February 19, 2007 – 8:52 am

If you have worked through your communications strategy, evaluated all of your options and channels and the most appropriate course of action is a social media solution (blog, wiki or podcast), then here are some points that you may want to consider before you rush off and launch.
Please note, I am only covering corporate [...]

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Microformats and the social media release

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 [...]

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Replacing email

December 2, 2006 – 5:03 pm

If you accept the proposition that email is broken, (and if you don’t I would be interested to hear how it is working for you) then I thought that it might be worth exploring a few options for working around the problem.
The first thing to acknowledge is that, as much as we would like to [...]

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