Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Mirror, mirror - can modern societies survive looking into the internet and seeing their own reflections?

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One of the most major challenges for governments and societies around the world today is the rapidly declining trust in politicians, instit...
Friday, November 02, 2012

The state of the internet - great overall view from Business Insider

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This is a long slide presentation, but well worth reviewing in its entirety, that looks at the state of the internet globally today, the st...
Thursday, August 16, 2012

The right way to release a mobile app - Human Services' new student app

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I'm pleased to say that with all the apps now being developed by Australian governments, the Department of Human Services' new ...
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Monday, August 06, 2012

Is the Australian Government really slow to update staff to modern web browsers?

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One of the concerns I faced when working in government, and that I know many other people faced as well, was the currency of the web ...
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Friday, July 27, 2012

Do agencies unfairly assume that households have working printers?

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While chatting with government folk in Victoria yesterday, the topic of printable PDFs in websites came up. Many agencies have them - large...
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Thursday, June 07, 2012

Is the internet a force for good or evil in the eyes of government? And what does that mean for democracy?

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We've often seen contrary positions taken by western democratic governments on the value of the internet - whether it can be used for g...
Friday, May 04, 2012

Canberra event: Public interest journalism and its digital future

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Organised by the Public Interest Journalism Foundation , as part of the New News public events program, Public interest journalism and its ...
Monday, April 23, 2012

Victorian government launches consultation blog for a new Vic.gov.au site

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The Victorian government has launched a blog asking users for their ideas on how to improve the vic.gov.au website as it goes through a re...
Thursday, April 05, 2012

Governments need to ensure their websites work for modern users

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I went to the Australian Business Register site ( www.abr.gov.au ) this afternoon to set up an ABN (Australian Business Number) for a compa...
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Saturday, March 31, 2012

Australia goes mobile - 47% of net connections via mobile devices

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It's long been reported that the majority of internet connections in Japan are via mobile devices - since 2006 in fact. It now seems...
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Tuesday, March 06, 2012

Stop waiting for the messiah and do it yourself

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While there's many organisations now actively beginning to experiment with social media channels and tools, just as many - if not more ...
Monday, March 05, 2012

Who is your Marketing or Communications CIO?

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I was struck by a comment from Dan Hoban (@dwhoban) at GovCamp Queensland on Saturday, which resonated with me, and with others in the audi...
Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Look for the Australian premier screening of Twittamentary at GovCamp QLD

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A few weeks ago I became aware of a very interesting documentary project, Twittamentary , a movie that  explores the intersection and inter...
Friday, December 23, 2011

Is inappropriate social media use really an issue for government?

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With some of the concerns and processes I've witnessed in government it would be easy to draw the conclusion that hundreds or even thou...
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Wednesday, December 07, 2011

Are you allowing others to steal your agency's oxygen online?

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A favored term amongst political operatives and advisors is 'oxygen,, the share of the public discussion a politician, government or is...
Saturday, October 22, 2011

Traditional media insiders are the least qualified to comment on the future of traditional media

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With the release of News Ltd's Future of journalism 'discussion' I've submitted a 'Your view' to the site which may...
Wednesday, October 19, 2011

The changing face of media, communications, politics and agency engagement

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I've just read the latest speech by Annabel Crabbe on the changing face of the media and politics and thought it worth highlighting as, ...
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Wednesday, October 05, 2011

We're all internet organisations now

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For the last fifteen years there's been an interesting 'us vs them' going on in the world of organisations - both commercial an...
Friday, September 30, 2011

Happy belated 20th birthday Mr Web Browser

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The first web browser, appropriately named WorldWideWeb , was released publicly in August 1991 by 'Father of the Web' Tim Berners-L...
Thursday, September 29, 2011

The role of social media during the Arab Spring

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John Sheridan posted a link on Twitter to a very interesting analysis of the impact of social media on the revolutions across the Arab worl...