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Keeping Social Business Design Real
I was watching the Friendface episode of the IT Crowd the other day. At one point, Roy, Jen and Moss are all sitting in the office together but end up talking to each other on 'Friendface' (you can watch the clip here). It... read full post
Masterclass: Online community engagement for the public sector - 22nd March, 2010 - Canberra
We are taking advantage of the fact that Robin Hamman will be here in Sydney for our Social Business Summit to run a special half-day masterclass in Canberra on Monday 22nd March.Featuring Robin and facilitated by Anne Bartlett-Bragg, the masterclass... read full post
Creating Government 2.0 as Social Business
You might have seen from Anne's earlier post that the themes for this year's Social Business Summit hosted here in Sydney on the 25th March are:Engagement - connecting and communicating with your workforce and enabling new processes to emerge through... read full post
Considering the influence and impact of Social Business
Announcing the Social Business Summit, Sydney, March 25, 2010 "Considering the influence and impact of Social Business for your organisation." We're delighted to announce the final event in a series of global Social Business Summits hosted by the Headshift/Dachis Group... read full post
Finally, no more cookie cutter online communities
I first became seriously involved in online communities while working at a professional services firm in the early 2000s - our total sum of knowledge about running 'discussion databases' fitted easily into about 1,000 words (just right for consumption by... read full post
We are currently seeking input for Gov 2.0 Taskforce Project 8
Headshift is currently completing a project for the Government 2.0 Taskforce, to develop online engagement guidelines and a Web 2.0 toolkit for Australian government agencies (see the brief - PDF or RTF format).Our approach for this project involves creating use... read full post
Upgrading Democracy in Australia - Reboot needed
The Centre for Policy Development is an independent Australian public interest think tank. Lee Bryant and I were invited to submit an article for the latest edition of their Insight Magazine, which became available online today. The theme for this... read full post
Social innovation gardening
I wrote this short piece about the relevance of Government 2.0 to service delivery at a local level: The exciting dimension of Government 2.0 is the impact it can have on communities where Local Government is at the front line,... read full post
SharePoint or Wiki?
This article was originally published in the May/June 2009 edition of Image & Data Manager magazine.Archimedes famously told us that with a long enough lever and fulcrum to rest it on, he could move the world. The story of designing... read full post
Don't short change online citizens
If you follow me on Twitter, you will know I've been critical at times of the Australian government's recent efforts to embrace Government 2.0 and more technology-supported participatory approaches. So far I have been generally disappointed with the examples I've... read full post
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.... read full post
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... read full post
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... read full post
In GovernmentNews: A case of the Twitters?
If you are a GovernmentNews subscriber, look out for my two page article in the May 2009 edition about the use of Twitter by local councils in Australia:A case of the Twitters?Councils are defined by their geographic areas, but the... read full post
Can we all govern?
While (unashamedly) UK centric, I can promise you that the Us Now movie is well worth down loading (via BitTorrent) or watching in full online as the stories it shares have global applicability. While we might have particular problems to... read full post
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