Web enabled politics and stakeholder engagement
This posting is for those interested in new ways to engage with stakeholders and citizen-engagement in rules-making – in other words, those of you thinking about ways to improve stakeholder engagement...
View ArticleOpenness, participation and scale: Web 2.0 rules of thumb
A large part of my horizon scanning research last year was on emerging communications and media business models. I needed to explain the main underlying trends likely to shape emerging value-chains and...
View ArticleParticipation Divide
I gave a presentation on the social web to a professional services firm yesterday. My two key messages to them were about: the fast pace of change; and that massive networking changes everything On the...
View ArticleIdentifying New Influencers
As time goes by there is more research published on social media and social networking use. Here are some examples on identifying and measuring influence. Research firm Sysomos has released some...
View ArticleLargest increase in expressing capability in history
Clay Shirky’s latest presentation is inspirational. How cellphones, Twitter, Facebook can make history What is changing is that the people formally known as the audience (in broadcasting terms) or the...
View ArticleGovernment 2.0: no change without culture shift
Australian Government 2.0 Taskforce member Martin Stewart-Weeks has put up a really good posting on the culture shift necessary to thrive in the Web 2.0 world. Martin’s posting revealed a deep...
View ArticleTwitter is not about text messaging, it is much more than that
A couple of recent developments prompted this posting. One was this New York Times piece on why teens are not attracted to Twitter. The other was to share with you another positive Telstra experience...
View ArticleTrapped girls call for help on Facebook
Interesting news item from yesterday – two girls from Adelaide who were trapped in a drain called for help by updating their status on Facebook using a mobile phone. Some say this one comes in the...
View ArticleAustralia’s Government 2.0 Future Part 1
I’ve been asked to contribute to the Gov 2.0 Futures project launched by Kate Carruthers and Craig Thomler. Looking out 20 years, contributors are asked to consider three questions: What does...
View ArticleAustralia’s Government 2.0 Future Part 2
Let ourselves be seen In my first posting on this topic I stated that I would have some views to share about the cultural implications from Gov2.0. One of the greatest challenges for the public service...
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