Archive for September, 2009

Paul McLeay's e-democracy initiative – 3 cheers from us but the Herald is not impressed!

This article by Lisa Carty is part of the lead stories on today’s SMH website. It attacks NSW State Labor MP Paul McLeay for describing the Premier’s use of twitter as being “like a 12-year-old with tourettes” They also highlight that he criticises the PM (oh lord!) and accuses the Government of spamming people. The … Continue reading →

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Community engagement and the Iphone

I’ve been wowed recently by all the augmented reality iphone apps such as this one: and this one: It doesn’t take a genius futurist to start to come up with great ideas for community engagement based on apps like these and I’m sorely tempted to put Bang the Table’s resources into something like this. The … Continue reading →

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The future of mobile technology

If you’ve got some time (40 minutes), this presentation by Charles Stack at Case Western University about mobile technology is pretty interesting. While it’s not really about “community engagement” in a public policy sense, it does paint a compelling picture of the future of mobile technology and its impact on accessibility to information in useful … Continue reading →

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The case for anonymity in online forums

After speaking at NSW Sphere the other week I checked the tweets made during my talk and found that a key point of disagreement was my suggestion that public forums should be anonymous. On Bang the Table all our users have the option to be anonymous. At the outset there was some debate about this. … Continue reading →

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My presentation slides for the San Diego IAP2 Conference on Monday

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Community Heritage Wiki

I received a social media release today about a Community Heritage Wiki called Now and Then I have been somewhat critical of wikis as community engagement tools for mass engagement but this seems to be a superb use of the tool, a fantastic collaboration project and a really interesting site. Any community can set up … Continue reading →

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The NSW Premier engaging online

Bang the Table has been hosting a site for the NSW State Plan Consultation. Yesterday in Parliament during questions the NSW Premier Hon Nathan Rees MP offered the following as part of one of his answers: These are just some of the issues raised in the State Plan consultation. Every idea and suggestion has been … Continue reading →

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Centre for Policy Development – Democratic Renewal

Crispin and I have contributed an article to the Centre for Policy Development publication on Democratic Renewal. We wrote about Identifying and Managing the Risks of (not) Engaging Online. There are a number of other excellent articles that we strongly recommend reading but I want to particularly highlight Web Tools for Beginners by Barry Saunders … Continue reading →

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