Showing posts with label council. Show all posts
Showing posts with label council. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Infographic: Australian government agencies and councils have now sent 2 million tweets and have 3.9 million followers

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I've been tracking the active Twitter accounts of Australian government agencies and councils for over four years now. In February 20...
Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Do government agencies and councils deliberately make it harder for citizens to engage?

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I've been watching a great TEDx talk by Dave Meslin on citizen engagement, which asks the question - if governments want to be open and...
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Where are Australia's tweeting councils and do they have enough followers

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I've mapped the 222 local government Twitter accounts I track to their geographic locations around Australia (excluding NT), and it fo...
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Tuesday, June 19, 2012

How nine year olds can now reform governments, one bite at a time

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With the tools available today, influence over government policy is no longer the preserve of the wealthy, the well-connected or those peop...
Tuesday, May 08, 2012

Participate in Melbourne Knowledge Week 2012

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The City of Melbourne was recognised in 2012 as ‘Most Admired Knowledge City’ in an award from the World Capital Institute and Teleos, an i...
Tuesday, March 01, 2011

Presentation from Friday's Seamless conference

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Last Friday I presented on a personal basis at the Seamless CMS Government Conference in Melbourne to a collection of Councils from around ...
Thursday, July 08, 2010

100 Ideas to Help Engage your Community Online - the book and the wiki

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Bang the Table has released a fantastic little handbook for online community engagement. Titled 100 Ideas to Help Engage your Community On...
Wednesday, June 30, 2010

ACT launches Fix My Street - but not like the UK Gov 2.0 service

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The ACT has launched a Fix My Street service providing ACT residents with methods for reporting and tracking "municipal service reques...
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Friday, April 30, 2010

The street as a platform, what's government's role?

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An extremely thought-provoking post about The street as platform written by Dan Hill in February 2008 has been brought to my attention by D...
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Sharing your photo library

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Has your organisation ever considered sharing your photo library with other government organisations? With the costs of conducting new photo...
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Friday, September 11, 2009

At least 70 agencies on Twitter across all layers of Australian government

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Being sick in bed at the moment, I've used the opportunity to review which Australian Federal, State and local government departments an...
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Thursday, December 04, 2008

How Web 2.0 will transform local councils

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Given that a case study on Mosman council is being included in today's Web 2.0 in Government seminar being run by AGIMO, I thought it w...
Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Teaching public servants to blog

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The British government is funding a campaign, CivicSurf to teach British local politicians how to blog. It would also be useful to public s...
Tuesday, October 14, 2008

588 nominations received in the UK e-Government National Awards 2008

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Considering the 30-40 nominations received in Australia's annual egovernment awards, it's staggering to consider than in the UK ther...
Monday, July 21, 2008

Why do some local councils in the UK have better websites than some Commonwealth agencies in Australia?

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The question in my title is of course a little provocative - who is to say whether a website is better or worse? The answer, in my view, is ...
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Saturday, July 19, 2008

Do people want the same things from council, state and federal government websites?

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The UK recently held its annual seminar on How to build the perfect council website . This discussed strategic approaches to egovernment at ...
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