This is a guest post from Zara Lynch of the Ministry of Economic Development, as the Digital Strategy aligns closely with our own work.
Hi there, Zara here from the Digital Development Team at the Ministry of Economic Development.
The Draft Digital Strategy 2.0 was released for public comment on Monday 14 April. It is a […]
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Participate in the Draft Digital Strategy 2.0 online discussion
April 17, 2008 – 3:42 pm
Who polices the police wiki?
April 9, 2008 – 3:42 pm
As part of my work here at the State Services Commission, I’m involved with a Participation Community of Practice, a group of practitioners with an interest in public participation online (and off) drawn from government agencies, local government, private firms, academia, civil society organisations and international practitioners. It was this group that contributed to our […]
And we’re off
March 25, 2008 – 9:28 am
With sites like wordpress.com, anyone can set up a blog. Five minutes after deciding to do it, you can be sharing your every thought at the internet at large. But just because the technology is there which enables you to do so, that doesn’t mean that you should rush in. Especially not if you’re going […]
How did you get here?
March 12, 2008 – 12:00 pm
Recently I attended the Webstock conference here in Wellington, and I had my mind expanded, challenged and opened in so many ways that no doubt I’ll be blogging about it for years to come. But today I’m going to talk about two pieces of information that I heard.
The first was from a woman I talked to […]
24 Hour Working People
March 12, 2008 – 11:50 am
It’s a strange thing when Wellington shuts down for two weeks over Xmas. You can’t get your usual coffee, drink in your usual bars or get ahold of your landlord when you really need to because they’ve just told you they’re selling your house. But thanks to the Internet, you can do some of your […]
Why are we doing this?
March 12, 2008 – 11:00 am
We’re constantly evolving the exact answer to “Why is the SSC blogging?” (because apparently “Because!” isn’t a good enough answer), so I thought a good way to get a feel for what blogging can achieve would be to borrow statement of purposes from other blogs. A site I’ve started reading lately is Signposts - Te […]
Announcing the State Services Blog – In Development
March 12, 2008 – 9:04 am
We are pleased to announce that the State Services Commission is now blogging.
We’re aiming to build thought leadership around significant work programmes, including Authentication, Strategy and Policy and Web Standards, as well as providing a best practice example of how to effectively manage social media as part of public sector communications.
Other agencies ask us for […]
Seeing yourself on screen
Last week, I took part in some user-testing for the upcoming NZ On Screen website - “a showcase of moving image and sound content created in New Zealand or by New Zealanders for local and international audiences”. What this meant is that I sat with two people from the project, and they watched me as […]