This is a guest post by Trudy Rankin. Trudy Rankin is the CIO at the Department of Conservation.
Recently whilst dining with some of my fellow “senior women in IT” colleagues the subject of Twitter came up. In the ensuing discussion I discovered, to my astonishment, that I was the only one who used Twitter. Not [...]
This is a guest post by Hadyn Green. Hadyn Green is a Senior Analyst in the Ministry of Education’s Research Division. His main area of work is student assessment and he works with data on a daily basis.
At the Open Govt BarCamp held recently, one group was asked to raise their hands if they believed [...]
When I was at university, I studied some psychology. I vividly remember learning about deindividualisation; losing the sense of individual responsibility for your actions (sometimes through a false sense of anonymity) leading to anti-normative behaviour. One of the lesser-known examples that the lecturer gave, was an experiment in 1973, where six males and six females [...]
Since March the 3rd of this year, @NZGovtFeeds has been republishing various New Zealand Government RSS feeds as a Twitterstream on Twitter and on a FriendFeed account.
This is a simple but powerful example of a third party outside of Government adding value to information that Government is providing. I am uncertain which Government departments could [...]
Coming into 2009, we’ve all fastened our seat belts for an economic roller coaster ride (going mostly downwards). Some are predicting unemployment figures to kiss double digits. Inevitably, this is going to lead to a whole lot of talented people looking for jobs over the coming years.
So my question (perhaps very prematurely) is: are government [...]
Over the last 3 years we have seen a steady increase in the use of social media by State servants:
sanctioned government agency blogs (like this one),
State servants blogging about their organisations in their spare time,
State servants responding to blog posts,
State servants writing guest posts on blogs,
sanctioned government agency wikis,
State servants editing articles relating to their [...]
This is a guest post from Stephen Clarke of Archives New Zealand.
The Digital Continuity Strategy: Consultation Wiki
The shift to digital creation of information in the public sector has created a challenge to managing and accessing public information over time as archives for future generations. We are in danger of creating a digital dark age for [...]
Last month Jason Ryan blogged about our need to share not just success stories but also mistakes when Government uses social media/Web 2.0 (or indeed to avoid dishonestly painting the mild successes as stunning successes). He is right; what we need is lessons and examples, the good, the bad and the ugly. The problem [...]
