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The Australian government has finally banned the installation and use of TikTok on government devices . This has been a long-time coming, wi...

Something that scares me enormously is the house of cards that many (if not most) governments have built with their IT systems. It can be...

On a regular basis, around the world, governments rise and fall. We see this most commonly at local levels - with councils merging and de...

This is a presentation I gave on Monday to NSW Health, including a review of Australian social media adoption, how agencies have been using...

NetFlix has released its 'manifesto' detailing how they operate and why, a document that Facebook's COO has described as "...

If you are one of the majority of public servants with a Facebook account, then it may be time to reconsider how you use the service. As ...

With the permission of Geoff Mason ( @grmsn) , I've republished his blog post Don’t dumb me down! from 21 March this year below. I t...

I've finally been able to let the cat out of the bag today and publicly announce my primary post public sector project. I have been o...

The US Army has released a very interesting - and frightening - presentation looking at the risks of geolocational services on smartphones ...

While government agencies often have limited options in the approaches they choose to use for moderating third-party social media channels,...

I have had a great deal of respect for the  Australian Policy Online (APO), produced by the Australian National University and University ...

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...

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

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

Steve Davies over at OzLoop has just published a thesis by Dr Derek Ambrose that looks at the topic of leadership in the Australian public ...

Laws have always struggled to keep up with society, however rarely in such a vivid and public way as in Wednesday's arrest of Sydney Mor...

Votaire said, "Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good". This is often quoted in politics where the acts of creating,...

If you do not embrace social media soon, the digital divide in your country will be dwarfed by the divide between your country and the rest ...

I've been speaking with a few lawyers and solicitors lately regarding the risks of various social media initiatives and tools. Today, ...

Microsoft has just released a beta version of Internet Explorer 9, however is still having to ask organisations to stop using Internet Explo...