Posts tagged ‘presentation’

Taming Twitter Terrorism: Combating the Asymmetry of Social Media

This morning I am presenting at a conference entitled “Integrating Online Services with your existing Community Engagement Strategy”. It’s quite a mouthful and not necessarily the sort of thing that might readily attract the attention of Gov 2.0 aficionados. My keynote is described as “Reaching the people: Where are they?” The sub-titled questions are “The untapped potential of the online sphere” and “Social media as the new frontier of citizen”. They’re a bit of a mouthful too. While paying appropriate respect to the conference organisers, I’ve tried to use a title that might provoke a bit more interest. In the attached speech and presentation, I compare social media to counter-insurgency warfare. This isn’t intended to trivialise either subject but, rather, to indicate that things in our past experience can often provide pointers as to how to deal with things we might encounter in the future. Read more

Tweeting for your Country: a personal view of some principles for social networking

Last Saturday, I attended BarCamp Canberra 2011, which AGIMO co-sponsored. An eclectic gathering of individuals, it covered a wide range of subjects with 20 minute presentations covering matters such as Gov 2.0, social media, robots, agile programming and lots more. There were about 150 attendees from Canberra and further afield including Wollongong and Sydney, and a very active Twitter stream during the day.

I presented on ‘Tweeting for your Country’, a further development of the principles of social networking, in and for the Australian Public Service, that I spoke about a week or so ago at the TransTasman CIO conference and later tweeted. I have had several requests to blog about these principles. It has been our practice to post presentations we provide so that they are freely available to all those interested. In that spirit, I have decided to post this. Please note, they are not official policy, just my observations developed in the 18 odd months during which I have had some responsibility in this area. Read more