New Column by Stewart Liff
Check out my new column on www.OhMyGov.com – http://ohmygov.com/blogs/general_news/archive/2011/03/18/how-to-win-the-hearts-and-minds-of-your-employees-part-1.aspx
Social Networking on the Road to Damascus
Greetings from BarCamp Canberra 2011 in in Canberra, where the “lightening” five minute talks end the day. One of interest was Tim Conway who says he is giving a talk on Social Networking in Damascus is a few weeks time. He requested input to his twitter address @conwaytb Original post
Tweeting for Your Country
Greetings from BarCamp Canberra 2011 in in Canberra, where John Sheridan, First Assistant Secretary, Austrlaian Government Information Management Office is talking about how he uses social networking in Government (AGIMO are sponsoring the event). After giving good advice on what to say (and not say) and how to use it generally (there is a “AGIMORead… Read more »
Designing for Dialogue: buidings and online
Greetings from BarCamp Canberra 2011 in in Canberra, where Pia Waugh and myself just talked on “Designing for Dialogue”. My notes are in “Designing for Dialogue: How do we design buildings and on-line systems for people to talk, learn and make decisions together”. I argued that the same buildings discussion and on-line systems used forRead… Read more »
Sinha on Indian Kanoon, Free Legal Search Engine: The Genesis and the Legal Thirst
Dr. Sushant Sinha of Yahoo! India has posted Indian Kanoon: The Genesis and the Legal Thirst, on the VoxPopuLII Blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School. In this post, Dr. Sinha describes the origins and development of Indian Kanoon, the free legal search engine for India, for which Dr. SinhaRead… Read more »
Remote Controlled Culvert Cleaning
With budgets tight throughout the country and any serious economic recovery years away, states and municipalities are turning to technology to increase efficiency and save money. One example of innovation in action is the Mucker (its actual name is the Microtraxx Tunnel Mucker). The Mucker is used to excavate sediment from culverts and was createdRead… Read more »
Please help keep this building a Comic Sans free zone
Greetings from BarCamp Canberra 2011 in the new Commerce building at the Australian National University in Canberra. There are about two hundred delegates for the free event, but there is room for a few more, so come along.The first session for the day is about how to give a presentation by Donna Spencer (@maadonna) .Read… Read more »
Make Hack Void in Canberra
Greetings from BarCamp Canberra 2011 in in Canberra, where we just had a presentation on Make Hack Void. This is a non profitCanberra based group which does hacking in the more traditional sese of the word. That is they make gadgets, mostly computer controlled, out of old bits and pieces. The group has a shedRead… Read more »
AIIM Releases the Social Business Roadmap
Purpose of the roadmap This roadmap is a tool to help organizations effectively develop social business processes and to help identify and address potential issues before they become real problems. The roadmap is designed as a framework – that is, it addresses a wide variety of issues and challenges, not all of which will beRead… Read more »
What do Chuck Norris, cowbell and T-Pain have to do with good government?
After watching the video, you’ll probably still be wondering. Either way, good for a laugh at myself on this fine Friday. Get your own valid XHTML YouTube embed code