Tag Archives: hrelease

Government social media release [gamma]

March 16, 2008 – 7:47 pm

Just over I year ago I posted the first government social media release, using an in-development microformat, hRelease. Since then, I have issued 7 more releases using this format (you can see them all on the e-government site). During the course of that year the markup has evolved as I worked with the hRelease working [...]

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Alternate uses for public sector blogs

July 22, 2007 – 2:51 pm

I posted a couple of arguments for getting a blog up as an internal communications tool some weeks ago, Business case for a blog. However, as a blog is a content management system, there are any number of other ways to turn this tool to your communications needs.
Bob Conrad at The Good, the Bad, the [...]

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Public relations & HTML

June 4, 2007 – 11:56 am

In the comments thread after the post on reputation management last week, Sam Farrow made some excellent points about search engine optimisation (SEO) and public sector communications. During the course of the conversation, I realised that this was a topic that needed its own post. Unfortunately, this isn’t it. Why? Because while composing that post, [...]

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Microformats & the govt media release [beta]

February 27, 2007 – 2:31 pm

I posted last year about microformats and the social media release, as an introduction to developments in this space and how microformats have the potential to radically alter the way that we produce, publish and syndicate content across the government namespace.
Rather than just comment from the sidelines, I thought I would prepare and publish a [...]

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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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