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From the USA comes a new report from the Pew Research Center entitled ‘How People Learn About Their Local Community‘. Whilst based on the US population the report data is likely to generally reflect most ‘first world’ nations. Apparently ‘more Americans report watching local TV news than any other source’, but this is for a few... [read more]
The days of relying on a print newspaper and a television anchor telling us "the way it is" are long gone. In 2011, Americans and citizens the world over consume news on multiple screens and platforms. Increasingly, we all contribute reports ourselves, using Internet-connected smartphones. A new report on local news by the Pew... [read more]
(there is a section on this topic focused on governments below) A hint of how social data could change journalism Anyone who’s heard me speak in the last 6 months knows I’m excited about BuzzData. This week, while still in limited access beta, the site is showing hints its potential – and it still has only a few hundred users. First,... [read more]
One innovation in the way that local councils communicate is the developments of digital press offices, or newsrooms. There are two elements to these, I think. The first is having a digital savvy communications team, who get the growing importance of online new sources and the need for mixed media; as well as the increasingly realtime... [read more]
Some learning not quite on the topic of egovernment but which emphasises the focus required when considering egovernment projects was clearly presented to me when catching up recently with an old acquaintance. The person concerned, Maryam Bibi, was back in England to receive an Honorary Doctorate from York University... [read more]
“The FCC Working Group on the Information Needs of Communities today delivered an in-depth analysis of the current state of the media landscape along with a broad range of recommendations. The staff-level report, titled “Information Needs of Communities: The Changing Media Landscape in a Broadband Age” [full PDF here or read by... [read more]
I hope you either attended or tuned into the Government Web and New Media Conference in Washington DC, last week. What a line-up! I sat in my Tucson family room, watching the proceedings streaming live, listening to the fine line-up of speakers; and I marveled that so many terrific people are engaged in improving the way government... [read more]
There is a telling comment on a story published yesterday in the Newburyport Daily News. Responding to a headline and content about why the city is leading other communities in Census returns, an anonymous person asks, “Why is this news?” Good question. Sadly, it’s not news. Most of the filler we read in newspapers and on websites and... [read more]
Citizens!This is now a classic: Technorati's State of the blogosphere 2009 has just been released.It's worth reading!What's very interesting is to see that more and more bloggers are in close link with "traditional" media.What if journalists were on the other side just one type of digital influencers? Link to original post Social... [read more]
This has caused quite a stir. The White House press corps seem mightily upset that some blogger upset 'protocol' and got in a question to Obama.Only it wasn't just some question, or just some blogger. Huffington Post's Nico Pitney, who's been doing near 24/7 stellar work aggregating and blogging news from Iran, got a question at the... [read more]
The BBC is to lose it's monopoly of license fee revenue. Good. Our state broadcaster takes £billions through the license fee. It uses it to promote an obnoxious, politically-correct, Big State, leftist, multicultural agenda that most of us find objectionable. But being an unaccountable quango our objections are ignored.... [read more]
Monday, June 15, Iranian supporters of Moussavi protest the election results (Photo: AFP/Getty) You may have missed what happened this weekend. I know I almost did. No, I’m not talking about the dramatic protests in Iran against the declared election results claiming that President Ahmadinejad defeated Mir Hussein Moussavi... [read more]
Should government run the professions? That was the not-so-subtle subject of yesterday's Schools select committee in the Commons. To the panel of "experts" giving evidence, state meddling was the answer. The purpose of the research was to fit around that. Action, we were told, was needed to open up access to elitist professions. But... [read more]
Everything old is new again, and with innovative technological advances granting the public greater access to government, businesses and the community, the rules of traditional social psychology still apply. As users tap into a new era of transparency and direct dialogue, it is important to consider that more access does not always lead... [read more]
It’s a problem running a pan-European campaign when you’re saying different things to different audiences. According to the Irish Times, Libertas have been found out doing just that: The Polish media have got wind of Libertas’ plan to stem the tide of Eastern Europeans coming to Ireland to work. The daily newspaper Rzeczpospolita carries... [read more]
Dean Halstead is a Lead Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton and serves on the Advisory Board for the SmartBrief on Social Media. More »
John Kamensky is a Senior Fellow with the IBM Center for The Business of Government. More »
Steve Radick is a Lead Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton and serves on the Advisory Board for the SmartBrief on Social Media. More »
I understand that there's always a need to experiment for new design to make it better but they also keep in mind that the more they add details, the more they make it complicated. The CFPB, which opened up for business last summer, said Wednesday that it will next be going after loan providers ...
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Talking about transparency and actually doing it are two different things. It ...