Last week, as part of the World Internet Project, Auckland University published The Internet in New Zealand 2007, a survey of 1430 New Zealanders’ use of and attitude towards the Internet. It has some interesting findings, particularly for public sector communicators.
The topline results of our usage habits are fairly unremarkable: 78% of Kiwis use the [...]
When I posted some alternate uses for blogs in the public sector, one of the suggestions that I floated was for a linkblog as an internal communications tool. This started me thinking about other uses for del.icio.us and other social bookmarking sites, including the obvious use: as a site for storing your bookmarks…
If you haven’t [...]
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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So, after much pre-publicity, speculation and hype, we now have two new Internet portals in the New Zealand market. Last week both Xtra and Microsoft revealed their offerings. And, while I really doubt if anyone outside the relevant organisations cares that much, I thought I would have a quick look at both and pass on [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
December 7, 2006 – 10:35 am
Late last week Gallup launched their Worldwide Corruption Index, a poll ranking 101 countries according to perceptions of corruption in business and government. New Zealand ranks equal second with Denmark, behind the squeaky-clean Finns.
This comes on the heels of Transparency International’s assessment of NZ as equal first in their annual Corruption Perceptions Index, this time [...]
