I have two things to talk about in this blog post.
1. You’ve been waiting a long time since I first presented about government use of SMS , and now finally, I am very excited to be able to provide you with An Introduction to Government Use of SMS. You can read it in full at the [...]
Author Archives: Joanna
An introduction and a goodbye
June 19, 2009 – 4:21 pm
Building websites in 24 hours
May 19, 2009 – 4:05 pm
I don’t think it is controversial to say that when you work in government, you need to get used to things taking a while to happen. After all, having 4 million clients means a lot of accountability. That’s why it was so refreshing for me last week to be a volunteer at Full Code Press (on [...]
Introducing an Introduction to Government Use of SMS
February 26, 2009 – 2:26 pm
I think it’s likely that you’ve sent and received at least one text message today. Maybe you texted your friend, your partner, your boss, or maybe you got a text message from your local pub telling you what band is playing tonight, or your bank sent you a message to say that someone has withdrawn [...]
NZ On Screen launches
October 23, 2008 – 9:07 am
Way back in April I wrote about how I’d been involved in user-testing for NZ On Screen. The site is now live, so you can go and experience it for yourself (although I’m pretty sure that watching entire episodes of Eating Media Lunch while at work might be stretching the idea of blogging (and interacting [...]
Participate in the Draft Digital Strategy 2.0 online discussion
April 17, 2008 – 3:42 pm
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]