Archive for August, 2009

Presentation to the EIANZ about some philosphical underpinnings of community engagement

EIANZ Presentation – Philosophical Underpinnings of Community Engagement View more presentations from BangtheTable. A few weeks ago I was asked to make a short “drinks” presentation to the Victorian chapter of the Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand. I’m used to giving product demonstrations and presentations on the benefits of online community engagement, but … Continue reading →

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Promising Practices in Online Engagement

I wanted to share this paper by the USA’s Public Agenda’s Center for Advances in Public Engagement (CAPE): Promising Practices in Online Engagement by Scott Bittle, Chris Haller and Alison Kadlee. The paper offers a case study strewn analysis of online engagement endeavours around the world and has a wonderful Appendix which steps you through … Continue reading →

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Open Forum

I’m afraid I have been neglecting my own blog and writing on other people’s. If anyone out there feels starved of my pearls of wisdom you can read The Imperative for Government to Engage Online here at the Open Forum.

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Web Chatting with the PM

Kevin Rudd took another step into the world of online engagement today with a webchat hosted on the PM Connect site. Generally speaking there is a problem with the Web Chat format because is that it is almost inevitably targeted at an individual (in this case the PM) and an individual can only type so … Continue reading →

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Headline News

To behold the article below from Lisa Carty in yesterday’s Herald is to be instantly relieved that this nation’s journalists have a handle on the major issues of the day. I have written before in this blog about how, with a few exceptions, the media seem to resist the opening of government through the web … Continue reading →

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More on Twitter

Just to round off this run of posts on Twitter @bobcraw has brought these guidelines for businesses using Twitter which are written by Twitter to my attention. Worth a read.

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