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Back in 2009 I predicted that government communications professionals only had about 10 years to gain social media skills or become unemplo...

Back in July 2008 I wrote a blog post asking whether government websites should feature paid advertising . No, four and a half years lat...

Viral content - content which gets shared across the internet and media very quickly (like a virus) - is often a controversial area of comm...

There's been a lot of commentary this week in the media around the decision by the Australian Advertising Board (ASB) to rule that the...

Thanks to a tip off from John Sheridan at GovCamp yesterday, I'm happy to report that the latest Sensis figures on social media use by ...

I have just been alerted of the event below, well worth attending for any public service and data types. And there are prizes! Are You a ...

In case you've not read it yet, Steve Davies wrote an interesting piece on the government's grapple to adapt to and adopt Gov 2.0 th...

I am beginning to get a little tired of all the headlines in the media about 'social media disasters'. A social media disaster is w...

I'm only here for a few presentations today at Informa's Social Media in Government conference, so are blogging rather than liveblo...

I attended the Australian Science Communicator's new media forum last night, participating on the panel as a Gov 2.0 Advocate, along wit...

This has been an insightful week for organisations using, or considering using, social media with three successive events demonstrating how ...

When I think back over the most well known innovation successes over the last few years, and I am not specifically referring to the public s...

Many organisations still haven't cottoned on to the influence of a number of blogs or how to appropriately approach and engage with the...

While this post is a little outside the usual topics I cover in this blog, I thought it touched on enough to publish it. Also it is so long ...

For a very, very long time (more than ten years) I've been asking marketers and communicators in commercial and public sectors why they ...

This week a colleague made me aware of a study conducted by Nielsen in April which found that online video ads were significantly more effec...

Governments love big announcements. Billions of dollars in spending, bold new projects and initiatives, launches and major events. These t...

Now that the UK general election has been called, it will be interesting to see the role social media will play in a Westminster election, c...

This video reflects some of the sentiments I hear from time to time about young people - and provides an alternate view. Thanks to Crikey ...

In the last week four separate Gov 2.0/social media conferences have crossed my desk. All claimed to provide a line-up of star speakers with...