Tag Archives: social media
Weekly bits of interest – 23 January 2012
Some developments and articles of interest from over the holiday break: Bill Eggers and Ruben Gonzalez from Deloitte write about the need for disruptive innovation in the public sector. “Budget cutting in government is typically an exercise in using the blunt instrument of across-the-board cuts—in other words, doing more of the same with […]
“engage” with ACMA
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has recently launched “engage” – a website dedicated to informing the public about the ACMA’s work in the converging fields of radio-communications, telecommunications, broadcasting and the internet.
Weekly bits of interest – 6 June 2011
Developments and articles of interest from the last week: Craig Thomler looks at the question of how agencies can manage the competing tensions and time-frames for responses in a social media world - the public sector responsibilities of deliberative, considered and comprehensive vs the need to be quick and responsive in social media channels. Innovation is helped by diverse […]
Weekly bits of interest – 28 March 2011
Developments and articles of interest from the last week: The Institute of Public Administration Australia (IPAA) recently released a paper ”The Future Course of Modern Government: An IPAA Policy Paper” that made some recommendations relating to innovation in government. One of these (in line with recommendation 8 of Empowering Change: Fostering Innovation in […]
Weekly bits of interest – 13 December 2010
Developments and articles of interest from the past week: Craig Thomler is compiling some data on which Commonwealth agencies use which forms of social media and has asked for help in completing the spreadsheet. “When you’re defending an idea, my research of what works in the real world suggests that […]
Social Media in Government Seminar – August 2010
Each year in the Department of Innovation, members of our Graduate Development Program are responsible for a major project on which they report to our Departmental Executive. This year one of the graduate groups has been tasked with looking at Government 2.0 and associated possible opportunities for the Department. Recently, as part of their project, […]
Weekly bits of interest – 30 August 2010
Developments and articles of interest from the last week: The public service is often accused of being too risk averse when it comes to innovation. With any innovation or new approach there needs to be a consideration of the benefits as well as the risks. In this post Craig Thomler looks […]
Weekly bits of Interest – 26 July 2010
Developments and articles of interest from the past week: In this interview Dave Gray, an author of upcoming book Gamestorming, explains the value of a game approach for collaborating and innovating. “Gamestorming is a set of collaboration practices that originated in Silicon Valley in the 1970s and has been evolving ever […]
Weekly bits of interest – 15 June 2010
Some interesting articles from the past week: This piece looks at some of the reasons that innovation efforts can fail in organisations. Just as with any individual innovation, attention needs to be paid to sustaining an innovation drive and ensuring it ‘sticks’. This piece provides some tips for change agents. […]