Showing posts with label social network. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social network. Show all posts
Thursday, December 15, 2016

Australian Public Servants want the right to comment respectfully on political and policy matters online

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I've been monitoring the Australian Public Service Commission (APSC)  public consultation on the current social media guidelines for Au...
Friday, August 05, 2016

Is it time for governments to extend digital security protections to all parliamentary candidates & parties?

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Over the last few years we've seen increasing attention on the use of personal technology by politicians. From our current Prime Mini...
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Wednesday, July 29, 2015

The evolving role of social medial within government and the community

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I had a great chat on Monday with one of the best online comms people in federal government, which touched on how the role of social media ...
Monday, September 22, 2014

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are more likely to use Facebook than the general Australian population

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I've witnessed indigenous communications teams in government agencies dismiss the use of social media in indigenous engagement out of a...
Thursday, September 18, 2014

What happened at the National Library's Digiculture event: Social Media and the Public Sector

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On Tuesday 16 September I participated in the panel for the National Library's Digiculture event: Social Media and the Public Sector , ...
Monday, September 01, 2014

92% of Australia's federal politicians now use Facebook and/or Twitter

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I've been tracking the number of Australian Federal politicians using Australia's leading social channels for two years now, seeing...
Friday, August 29, 2014

Young people in Australia are highly engaged in politics - but engagement has moved online. Have governments?

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A few years ago I heard it said by political advisors that one hand-written letter to a Minister counts for more than 100 emails on the sam...
Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Algorithm detected Ebola outbreak nine days before health authorities using internet posts

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There's a great article over at TechRepublic by Lyndsey Gilpin  on how the computer algorithm behind HealthMap detected the recent Ebol...
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...
Monday, April 07, 2014

APSC's current online participation guidance becoming an unwanted and unneeded distraction

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There's been a great deal of scrutiny of the APSC's revised guidance on social media participation by public servants since it came...
Thursday, March 20, 2014

Keep an eye out for the live webinar at 12:30 (AEST) on Content Marketing in Government

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From 12:30-1:30pm (AEST) today, Content Group is holding the second of its live webinars, this time on Content Marketing in Government. ...
Friday, March 14, 2014

Launching my Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign at BarCamp Canberra

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Tomorrow is BarCamp Canberra, a festival of ideas and experiences, where participants decide what to present and attend on the day. While...
Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Eight ways to craft a top government tweet

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Often the issue today is no longer how an agency or council gets a message or response approved for release via social media, but rather ho...
Monday, February 17, 2014

Help me create a crowdfunding video for a social media planning tool

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I need a little help from folks in Canberra for an upcoming project. I'm crowdfunding a social media planning tool I developed to hel...
Tuesday, February 04, 2014

Social media doesn't threaten people, people threaten people

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It feels bizarre to me to use an argument popularised by pro-gun lobbyists to counter claims of the risks of social media, however there...
Tuesday, November 26, 2013

90% of Australian federal politicians now use Facebook and/or Twitter

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I've been tracking the number of Australian federal politicians using social media channels for some time, with the proportion using th...
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Wednesday, November 13, 2013

About 1.5m tweets have now been sent by Australian councils and government agencies

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I've updated my tracking of Australian government and council Twitter accounts and found that the roughly 920 accounts I track have sen...
Monday, November 04, 2013

Australia's great leap forward in digital diplomacy

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In the UK the Foreign Office states , in regards social media, that " The FCO encourages all staff to make full use of the opportuniti...
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Friday, November 01, 2013

Social media policies from across Australian governments

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I've been compiling a list of social media policies released by government agencies and councils across Australia as a central resource...
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Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Has government found its feet in social media?

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Earlier today I gave a presentation to the IABC's Canberra chapter on the use of social media within the Australian Government. The s...
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