This post isn’t (on the face of it) directly relevant to community engagement but is all about ways in which web technologies are changing the way our society tells its stories. I think it is important that we understand these changes because so often good community engagement is about facilitating the telling of the stories … Continue reading →

I missed the release of the 2009 Australian e-Business Report by Sensis late last year and have just gotten around to taking a look to update a blog we posted on the 2008 results. The consumer section of the report – which is my focus here – is based on a survey, rather than census … Continue reading →

I commented yesterday on a blog post by Ron Lubensky on his excellent blog ‘Deliberations’. Ron had posted about the limitations of crowd sourcing in decision making because of its unrepresentative nature. I argued that this is why it is important to differentiate e democracy from e participation but that an e participation approach to … Continue reading →

I’m giving this presentation at a Social Media for Government conference in Canada in a couple of weeks. Any feedback would be gratefully received. View more presentations from Bang the Table.