Tag Archives: wikis

Public sector wikis

March 2, 2008 – 5:00 pm

Chris Wilson posted an interesting article on Slate last week, The Wisdom of the Chaperones, that uses some interesting data on Wikipedia and Digg contributors to look critically at the notion of the wisdom of the crowd.
Essentially, Wilson points out that these social sites are not built and maintained by the masses, rather they are [...]

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Gartner’s Government Hype Cycle

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 [...]

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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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Blogging as a public servant

February 16, 2007 – 1:05 pm

Allan Jenkin’s posted earlier in the week about a Swedish journalist cautioned for comments made on his private blog. What is interesting about this case is that the journalist is an employee of Swedish State Radio (Sveriges Radio), ie., he is a public servant.
I don’t pretend to know anything about the governance arrangements of the [...]

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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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Quotes, votes & hopes…

November 20, 2006 – 2:37 pm

Looking for a quote to spice up a presentation or speech? Not content to trawl through all those passé Web 1.0 quote sites? Then check out Quotiki.
As the name suggests, it is a wiki for quotes — well, sort of a wiki. That’s right, rather than pay someone to laboriously enter all those quotes into [...]

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