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 [...]
Author Archives: Matt Lane
Mouthwash vs Deathwash
October 1, 2009 – 11:58 am
Guidance on monitoring, and interacting on, social media
April 24, 2009 – 2:23 pm
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 [...]
A wizard behind a curtain
March 13, 2009 – 4:01 pm
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 [...]
Identifying existing alumni networks and capturing talent
January 28, 2009 – 4:51 pm
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 [...]
When State servants use social media
December 16, 2008 – 1:45 pm
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 [...]
New Zealand’s Digital Heritage: Do Nothing, Lose Everything!
November 12, 2008 – 9:00 am
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 [...]
Sharing lessons learnt on government ICT projects and the use of Web 2.0
November 6, 2008 – 2:38 pm
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 [...]
Social networking, government social networking, or non-government government social networking
November 4, 2008 – 12:00 pm
Last month I was lucky enough to attend the International Conference of IT Administrators where I met Steve Ressler the founder of GovLoop.
GovLoop is a “non-government” government social networking site. To elaborate, it is not run by a government organisation (though Steve does work for Homeland Security, GovLoop is extracurricular), but is designed for government [...]
Government organisations editing Wikipedia: Viewing Wikipedia as an intermediary
October 16, 2008 – 1:27 pm
This post is taken from an article on the e-intiatives wiki.
Citizens, customers, and stakeholders are increasingly gathering information about your organisation and its services from third parties. One of the most common places to look is Wikipedia (a user-generated encyclopaedia, written by volunteers from around the world, with the goal of providing “every single person on [...]
