October 19, 2008 – 8:17 pm
While chatting with Matt Lane last week about what New Zealand examples of social media in the public sector we should add to the Government 2.0 Best Practice Wiki (a terrific initiative launched by Mike Kujawski, a Canadian public servant consultant) it occurred to me that by only including successes when we discuss with other [...]
December 16, 2007 – 7:15 pm
Andy Oram wrote a post on Friday that triggered some thoughts of my own about reputation management, and how public sector communicators can approach this issue. Oram attended a Yale symposium on Reputation Economies in Cyberspace and has since been providing thorough coverage and analysis.
What I found interesting about his first post (he has posted [...]
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 [...]
November 13, 2006 – 12:05 pm
I have just finished reading a white paper on Social Media written by Trevor Cook and Lee Hopkins. It is a very good introduction to how new media is changing our working environment.
What really got me, however, was a quote in the front of the paper that, given my recent comments about reputation management [here [...]
November 8, 2006 – 7:06 pm
Wired magazine has reported on a new startup, called ReputationDefender (note the lack of a space between the two words, a sure sign that this company is certified Web 2.0™), whose mission in life is to:
…act on your behalf by contacting data hosting services and requesting the removal of any materials that threaten your good [...]
