Just a quick update on this old blog post about the Future Melbourne wiki and Government 2.0: The first round of collaborative drafting in the Future Melbourne wiki has now finished. Over the coming months the plan will continue to evolve under the guidance of the City of Melbourne’s Future Melbourne Team. Future Melbourne have won the Planning Excellence in Local Gov 2008 Award: Future Melbourne has been awarded the 2008 Award for Planning Excellence in Local Government from the Planning Institute of Australia (PIA) Victorian Division. The Awards recognise achievements and contributions across a diverse range of professional and Continue Reading…
Nov 092008
Posted by Laurel Papworth at 2:52 pm Tagged with: Local Government, Melbourne, Online Communities, Planning Institute of Australia, social media, Social Media Australia, social networks, Victorian Division, web 2.0, wiki software, Wikipedia
Sep 252008
@dahowlett retweeting @dbfarber: BuyMyShitPile.com @hwakelam (Harriet) and I are giggling at WebDirections South 08 instead of listening to the speaker, we are perusing BuyMyShitPile. With our economy in crisis, the US Government is scrambling to rescue our banks by purchasing their “distressed assets”, i.e., assets that no one else wants to buy from them. We figured that instead of protesting this plan, we’d give regular Americans the same opportunity to sell their bad assets to the government. We need your help and you need the Government’s help! Use the form below to submit bad assets you’d like the government to Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 10:04 pm Tagged with: consumer economy, economy, Hanson, Monetization, Online Communities, peer2peer, social media, social networks, US government
Sep 232008
Google Safe Browsing has something to say about Sydney South West Area Health Service: Safe Browsing Diagnostic page for www.swsahs.nsw.gov.au/ What is the current listing status for www.swsahs.nsw.gov.au/? Site is listed as suspicious – visiting this web site may harm your computer. Part of this site was listed for suspicious activity 4 time(s) over the past 90 days. What happened when Google visited this site? Of the 1303 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 259 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 3:03 am Tagged with: Google, Governor, malicious software, Successful infection, www.swsahs.nsw.gov.au
LONG LIVE Recommendation 7.14 “… content funded by Australian governments … should be made freely available over the internet ” (as long as you don’t want to quote/discuss it, one assumes). A few days ago, the National Innovation System Review came out. I have had it open on my desktop for a while trying to decide what part to blog. So here it is: IMAGE: “Sorry copying text from this document is not allowed” So much for being able to blog about innnovation in Australia. Innovative Discussion: The exact sum total of how much the Government of Australia values a Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 8:11 pm Tagged with: Australian Government, broadband, Canberra, digital economy, government, innovation, Kim Carr, National Innovation System, NIS, Online Communities, review, Ricky Gervais, social media, Social Media Australia, Terry Cutler
I was in Melbourne yesterday, giving the keynote at Glen Frost’s Frocomm New Media Summit conference. Great crowd, lots of thoughts flying around. Government 2.0 and Public Servants 2.0 View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: government public) Basically I went through a few different types of social media networks – blog (content), wikis (collaboration) and so forth. I also included this video of RocketOn to show the Live WebRocketOn – a layer over normal web pages so that Avatars can chat about the news and play with pixel branded products. …and also made mention of non-media social networks Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 6:08 am Tagged with: alan parker, conference, conferences, Event, events, Frocomm Government Public Service, glen frost, laurel papworth, live web, Melbourne, non-media social networks, normal web, public relations, seminars, social banking, social media, Social Media Australia, social media networks, social networks, social telecommunications, Web RocketOn
Sep 022008
I work with government departments on their social media policies. Both politicans and public servants have some of the same issues. Often showing them case studies of other immigration, tax, heritage, whatever in other countries or other States can help them see how they can sell the idea of conversation into their risk averse cultures. It’s all about knowing the fears then gently leading the fearful through the issues, which include staff doing inappropriate things online (get a policy), how to handle negative user opinions, staffing and resource issues (how much time do we have to dedicate), what if no Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 2:44 am Tagged with: Akira Amari, ambassador, ambassador for your organisation, Ambulance Driver, Anonymous UK Magistrate, barack obama, Building Democracy Ministry, civil service/public service social media, Commission of European Communities, Commissioner, Congress, Craig Thomler, department manager, external communications, external social media participation policy, firewall, Indonesia, internal social media participation policy, Islamic Republic of Iran, Juwono Sudarsono, leader, magistrate, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Margot Wallstrom, Melbourne, minister, Minister for Economy, National Heritage Board, NHS, offline communications, Online Communities, online participation, Politics, President, Senate, Senator, Singapore, social media, Social Media Australia, social media gov, social media participation policy, social media policies, social networks, staff member, Thomler eGov and Child Support Agency, Twitter, UK Government, United States
Jul 152008
Will social media change how we commit events to history from now on? From the About Page: Ushahidi.com is a tool for people who witness acts of violence in Kenya in these post-election times. You can report the incident that you have seen, and it will appear on a map-based view for others to see. We are working with local Kenyan NGO’s to get information and to verify each incident. What you can do is get the word out about Ushahidi so that it’s utilized to it’s full potential. This especially extends to talking to the people that you know Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 9:50 pm Tagged with: Africa, government, Kenya, Online Communities, Politics, report acts of violence in kenya, social media, social networks, South Africa, Ushahidi, widget, youtube
Jun 082008
Gary (that would be Mr. SilkCharm to you. Heh.) Hayes is off to Korea with Minister for Broadband and Digital Economy, Stephen Conroy (Personalize Media): Gary Hayes will be speaking and representing LAMP and AFTRS at the The 2008 KANZ Australia Korea New Zealand Broadband Summit on 19-20 June 2008 in Seoul, Korea. The ten or so Australian speakers at the two day summit will be led by Senator the Hon Stephen Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy and will be hosted by the Korean Minister, Mr See-Joong Choi, Chairman, Korean Communications Commission (KCC). The summit will Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 8:01 pm Tagged with: analog, broadband, broadband infrastructure, Broadband Technologies, Chairman, collaborative tools, Gary Hayes, Korea, Korean Communications Commission, minister, New Zealand, Safety, security, See-Joong Choi, Senator, Seoul, Social Media Australia
I’m just really bookmarking this wiki for my own future reference. Pass it on to those Melbournites that a) might want to be involved and b) might have a clue, willya? Recent news The first round of collaborative drafting in the Future Melbourne wiki has now finished. Over the coming months the plan will continue to evolve under the guidance of the City of Melbourne’s Future Melbourne Team. During the public consultation period, 17 May to 14 June, there will be a further opportunity to help draft the Future Melbourne Plan online. During this period we encourage you to log Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 9:03 pm Tagged with: city of melbourne, Future Melbourne, Future Melbourne Reference Group, government, Melbourne, Melbourne Councillors, online collaborative process, Online Communities, Politics, social media, Social Media Australia, social networks, user generated content, web 2.0, Wiki
From Alan Levine (CogDog): Sometime last year before my trip to Australia, I discovered the amazing work Al Upton was doing with year 3 students at at Adelaide Australia primary school. The 8 and 9 year old “miniLegends” were blogging, doing creative writing, and getting a fabulous experience in web technology. So it was exciting this year when Al put out a call via twitter for educators around the world to be “coaches” for this year’s miniLegends, asking people to adopt one students and agree to provide regular comments/feedback. Besides signing up myself, I echoed the call and a bunch Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 5:16 pm Tagged with: al upton, Arizona, Department of Education, Social Media Australia, South Australia, web technology
Mar 122008
Brought to You by The So Bad it’s Good Department: Rap done by the senior management of Singapore’s Media Development Authority.Hat Tip: Katie ChatfieldWhen we enter into a relationship with the customer, a real one, with two way dialogue, preaching and lecturing sends ‘em running for the hills, or leaves them pouting and grizzling. But when we approach the relationship with fun and humour -and when did marketing stop being about having fun with the consumer? – a warmth, loyalty and sense of community between us develops. Fun video, highly technical information with big boring slabs of policy-speak all sexed Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 9:00 am Tagged with: Good Department, Katie Chatfield, senior management, Singapore, Singapore's Media Development Authority, social media
OMG Australia 2020 Youth Summit FTW kthnxbai *waves* hi to those people who have been sending links to their 2020 Summit communities online. I’m sorry I can’t respond to all of you in person – though by the looks of these sites, you’ve been doing some great work. OzIdeas on WetPaint Bang The Table 2020Summit (I’m involved with that one) Bloggerati.com.au (mine) and some guy who wants us to have a new flag flagoz.com Who else is missing – not blogs, communities please, or at least group blogs – social networks for social change? For those network creators, I’d like Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 5:45 pm Tagged with: 2020 summit, Australian Government, Canberra, Governor, Hon Kate Ellis MP, Hugh Evans, laurel papworth, Minister for Youth, mobile, Online Communities, Social Media Australia, social networks, travel costs, youth
Maybe bloggers have too much to say? HeraldSun.com.au has made a big deal about the ad hoc invitations that traditional media are receiving directly from Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s lips: Kevin Rudd locks more media outlets in behind his summit: The Sunday Age is offering one reader to take a brilliant idea to the Prime Minister 2020 summit… ONE lucky Daily Telegraph reader has the chance to gather among the nation’s “best and brightest” for Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s 2020 Summit. WHEN 1000 of the nation’s “best and brightest” gather for Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s 2020 Summit, one lucky Herald Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 5:00 pm Tagged with: 2020 summit, ABC, ACTU secretary, Australian Labor Advisory Council, Daily Telegraph, Federal Government, Herald Sun, Jeff Lawrence, Jon Faine, Kevin Rudd, media outlets, Online Communities, Prime Minister, Social Media Australia, social networks, vigilant media
EDIT: I had a very nice voicemail from NZ Police Superintendent Hamish McCardle, the officer in charge of developing the new act – he wanted to let us know that they agree about transparency and that today the wiki is back up as a Document of Record. He also mentioned that they got a huge amount of press coverage overseas including the BBC. The Sydney Morning Herald asked me about a New Zealand Wiki that had emerged out of the New Zealand Police Department. I (of course) pretended I was completely up to speed on it all, while madly Googling Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 5:32 pm Tagged with: 2.0, 21st Century Cabinet, action National Library of Australia, appropos social networks, Arjun Ramachandran, Australian Government, BBC, Bill Obtain, Bill Opportunity, broadband, Chief Commissioner, Christine Nixon, Department of Education, educationau site, favourite social network site, Frank Connolly, Government Department, Governor, Hamish McCardle, journalist, laurel papworth, Major, New Zealand, New Zealand Police Department, NZ Police, officer, Online Communities, online technology, Parliamentary Counsel, Policing Bill Obtain Cabinet, Queensland Office of Gaming Regulation, Roads and Traffic Authority, Senator, shock site, Social Media Australia, social networks, Superintendent, sydney morning herald, The Sydney Morning Herald, Treasury Corporation, Victoria, Victoria Police, Whirlpool.net.
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