This report was brought to my attention by Sandy Heierbacher in the Online Engagement Group at LinkedIn, and I thought it well worth sharing more widely. Also blogged about by Sandy at the US National Coalition for Deliberation and Democracy (NCDD), in the post The Promise and Problems of Online Deliberation, the report provides aRead… Read more »
It can be difficult to define the line at which organised responses to an online consultation or engagement change from being legitimate activity by an interest group to ‘gaming’ the system to influence the outcome. For that matter it can be just as difficult in a paper-based or face-to-face process. Just who does a lobbyRead… Read more »
Pia Waugh is organising the next Gov 2.0 event in Canberra, which will be hosted by DEEWR in their Theatre at 50 Marcus Clarke Rd from 12:30-1:30pm on Tuesday 14 August. This time the event features two fantastic speakers, and has a much larger limit due to the large size of the venue. The speakersRead… Read more »
Thirty years ago if you wanted to read the news, you bought a newspaper. A paper newspaper, with real money. As a result all of a government’s announcements – media releases, Ministerial statements, advertising and other content had a price tag by default. You didn’t get to see them if you didn’t pay the paper’sRead… Read more »
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 discussed in ZDNet’s post, Is Facebook damaging your reputation with sneaky political posts?, Facebook is now posting messages in your timeline and saying you ‘Like’ the messages simplyRead… Read more »
I developed the Online Engagement Spectrum around three three years ago, based on the IAP2 Spectrum of Public Participation (PDF) and some complementary work by Bang The Table (no longer at the original web address). As Gadi Ben-Yedah over at his IBM’s Business of Government blog has begun a series of posts considering how socialRead… Read more »
In a recent story in ITNews, Accessibility checker surfaces errors, John Hibbert claimed that a new Mental Health website, www.mindhealthconnect.org.au, operated by the National Health Call Centre Network and funded by the Department of Health and Ageing, didn’t meet the Australian Government’s minimum web standards. Based on a review using the ACheck tool for theRead… Read more »
I’ve been working away in my (copious) spare time to update the list of Australian government Twitter accounts – representing all levels of government. It has now reached 553 accounts – which has also forced me to start a new Twitter list due to their 500 follower limit. You can view the spreadsheet embedded below,Read… Read more »
Last week I received the following email: Dear Hashable Users, We regret to inform you that the Hashable mobile apps and Hashable.com will be shutting down on July 25th. The service will be unavailable after this date. While we are still very passionate about making better connections and meeting new people, the time has comeRead… Read more »
This morning I presented at the Reading Room Digital Conversations forum to a group of Singaporean government officials on the topic of Transforming public engagement through social media. I talked through how connected Australia had become, and pointed out that the goals of public engagement have not really changed (using the IAP2 model to illustrate),Read… Read more »