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Us Now Sydney on 9th July

If you live in Sydney and either haven’t watched the Us Now documentary yet or simply would like the chance to discuss it further, then join us on the evening of Thursday 9th July at the Australian Technology Park for a special community screening. Its a free event, but you do need to register –… read full post

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Public Sphere #2 videos

Video recordings of each of the Public Sphere #2 presentations are now available online – including mine: Public Sphere: Government 2.0 – James Dellow from Kate Lundy on Vimeo. There are plenty more videos to browse through if you have time.

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Government 1.0 is dead. Prepare for the Age of Government 2.0!

When you work in government, there are always lots of training and information sessions on this and that – from how to behave ethically to the procedure for booking a meeting room. There is a particular pattern to this kind of training in the public sector and when it comes to new IT systems, I’m… read full post

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New report on Social Networking for the Legal Profession

Headshift are proud to announce the release of what is a major new report, published in association with Ark Group, entitled Social Networking for the Legal Profession. In the report, Lee Bryant and Penny Edwards look at ways in which legal professionals are exploiting social networking for business, both internally foroperations and communication, and externally as part… read full post

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Why you should add social computing to your IT strategy

I’m not sure if this is a trend yet, but I’ve had a couple of client enquiries recently, but not about social computing or social media explicitly – instead they want help with IT strategies more generally. Considering that it would be very rare to implement social computing in a green field environment where no… read full post

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What is an API? Tim Duckett explains

Over on the original Headshift blog, Tim Duckett writes: That’s a question I was asked a few days ago by a client.  It’s a fair question, too – there’s no point in building features into systems unless they provide some benefit, so why would you want to spend time and effort doing this?   And for… read full post

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The Impact of the Social Web on Corporate Reputations

In this McKinsey Quarterly article (free registration required), the authors look at the impact of two key factors changing what they call the ‘reputation environment’: “the influence of indirect stakeholders–such as NGOs, community activists, and online networks–has grown enormously.” “the proliferation of media technologies and outlets, along with theemergence of new Web-based platforms, has given… read full post

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