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According to research by Hanover Communications, the Labour backbench MP Tom Watson had a higher media profile in 2011 than every shadow minister, except for Ed Miliband and Ed Balls. Even a few years ago, the idea that a mere backbencher would have a higher profile than, say, the shadow Foreign Secretary or Home Secretary, would have... [read more]
According to the Daily Mail, civil servants in Whitehall departments are spending a great deal of time surfing the web and reading blogs during office hours. Far from disapproving, I think Sir Humphrey should be required to spend at least one coffee break each day reading some of the following sites: · ... [read more]
I’ve just emailed my current top ten blogs to the “Total Politics” annual blog “Beauty Parade”. Total Politics impartiality is obviously somewhat dubious since it is owned and run by Tories (with a supposedly “neutral” board overseeing) but it is the political website of choice for many serious politicians. Thankfully - you are not... [read more]
After launching a survey to try and find out how much wordpress has been used and in what context across the public sector, I am actually surprised to have had (as of today) 72 submitted URL’s which are either using WordPress.com or WordPress.org. There isn’t common purpose either which has also surprised me, although it shouldn’t. The... [read more]
On Monday, coinciding with the release of the Government's Gov 2.0 Taskforce report response, AGIMO launched its new blog and blogging platform at AGIMO.Govspace.gov.au. More than simply a Departmental blog, Govspace, as discussed on Twitter by John Sheridan, is a blogging - and eventually a wiki - platform available for other... [read more]
A blog is a blog is a blog in the same way that a TV show is a TV show is a TV show. That is to say, there are many kinds of blogs in the same way there are many different kinds of TV shows, depending on their goals, audience, subject matter and format. So when a government department, commercial organisations or... [read more]
Two great blog posts recently on the ever thorny issue of local government websites. Firstly, Al Smith recounts his experience managing the refresh of Newcastle City Council’s site. A remarkably honest and open appraisal of how it all went, and Al’s own role, it’s a great read and one for any local gov web manager to take a look at.... [read more]
I was asked today by a representative of another agency for my thoughts, advice and observations on government blogging. While I don't think I have any particularly unique insights, I realise that people who are new to the medium are at an earlier point on their learning journey. So here's the 20 thoughts I shared (slightly... [read more]
Image Courtesy of Flickr user cogdogblog As many of you know, here at Booz Allen, we’ve got an internal suite of social media tools available on our Intranet – hello.bah.com. While it’s garnered a lot of publicity, won awards, and really changed the way we think about virtual collaboration here, I get asked this question 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]
A new study out by Brookings “Blogs as Public Forums for Agency Policymaking” looks at blogs created by top officials in five federal agencies and compared them to similar, but non-official blogs on the same topics to see how each are used to link citizens and government officials. Authors Julianne Mahler and Pricilla Regan found... [read more]
Just completed a mass update to the Public Sector Bloggers website and feed which was initiated by Dave Briggs and tidied up by Steph Gray.I used those signed up to @PubSecBloggers as well as my egov links in my blog's right column, which now needs an overhaul as a lot of sites/blogs are effectively defunked, to compile the additions.... [read more]
Sgt. Tom Le Veque has been a believer in social media since he started using it to reach out to the public during contract negotiations. Administration has been a bit slower to adopt, however, so Le Veque went for middle ground: a blog run by the Arcadia Police Officers’ Association. Sgt. Le Veque’s introduction on our “About You” page... [read more]
I put a tweet out last week pointing people to a new domain, www.localgovweb.com, asking people to complete the form it contained. I asked for people’s: Blog addresses and whether they would like their posts to appear in an aggregated list Twitter names and whether they would like their tweets aggregated with everyone else’s Whether... [read more]
Often those of us living in English-speaking countries focus on what is going on in other English-speaking nations, Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada, UK and so on. There's a perfectly good reason for this, many of us don't speak the languages used in other blogs around the world.However the impact of social media is global, and doesn'... [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 »
Talking about transparency and actually doing it are two different things. It would seem that, the government especially, would do what it takes to get things done they way they say they will. There are many people who believe that their government is honest and open with them during ...
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It sounds like they are well on their way to becoming a regular household name. ...