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 [...]
Tag Archives: social media
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 [...]
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 [...]
Reputation management: Conducting a social media audit
July 1, 2008 – 4:26 pm
I recently spoke at Comms 08 but had to skip the final quarter of my presentation due to time constraints. The silver lining of that cloud is that what I was going to cover then, I will transcribe for everyone now.
Conducting a social media audit
We have entered an age of social media — the democratisation of [...]
Social media and legal code
May 9, 2008 – 4:05 pm
The article ‘Social media and legal code’ (PDF. 371KB), published recently in NZ Lawyer, provides a checklist of governance, legal, and quasi-legal issues for those involved in the planning, design, operation, and maintenance of social media sites. Hope it’s of some use.
Technorati Tags: Legal, resources, social media
Navigating the social media landscape
May 6, 2008 – 5:51 pm
On the 27th of May, the State Services Commission will host a workshop (at Archives New Zealand):
May 27, 2008 11–1pm – Navigating the social media landscape– at Archives New Zealand, 10 Mulgrave Street, Wellington
A workshop for people in the New Zealand public sector, who are seeking to build a basic understanding of:
-social media and social [...]
