Let’s say you’ve determined that entering into social media is right for meeting your org’s objectives. In my case it would be because we want to extend our web presence beyond the confines of our corporate website. But let’s say you trying to be realistic and you know that you are not properly resourced or [...]
Archive for the ‘uncategorized’ Category
Social Media for Government: Barriers to Entry
Posted in uncategorized on 3 February 2010 |
Old media incorporated into the new medium
Posted in uncategorized on 12 January 2010 |
Excerpt from Digerati: Encounters with the Cyber Elite (1996): Today, on the Internet the main event is the Web. A lot of people think that the Web is the Internet, and they’re missing something. The Internet is a brand-new fertile ground where things can grow, and the Web is the first thing that grew there. [...]
Liking Feedera
Posted in uncategorized on 6 January 2010 |
Like many Twitter users, my activity can be quite random. I’m far from being one of those "always on" types who spends the whole day with one eye on their tweetstream. I don’t even have a predictable, routine time when I’m on Twitter from one day to the next. Sometimes I’ll check out my tweetstream [...]
RSS is Not for People
Posted in uncategorized on 21 December 2009 | 4 Comments »
When was the last time you used an RSS Reader? I was chatting with some of my peers via email (!) last week about RSS, Twitter and how we get news. We’ve all noticed that most of us are nowadays using Twitter as the main way to keep up to date. One of my colleagues [...]
The Face of Gov is Online
Posted in uncategorized on 10 December 2009 | 2 Comments »
During the past six months, the top five methods the public used to initiate contact with the federal government were: Websites (41%) Mail (22%) Phone (17%) Part of job (16%) In person (14%) via usa.gov From a Gallup poll conducted in the USA during the summer of 2009. This reinforces yet again that websites have [...]
Is the web a communications medium?
Posted in uncategorized on 26 November 2009 | 4 Comments »
I hear this refrain all the time from my colleagues in government communications. Usually it goes something along the lines of, "the web’s not x, it’s a communications vehicle/medium/platform/tool." I’ve echoed variations on this theme myself. After all, it’s a catchy bit of sloganeering. Except. The more time I spend doing digital, the less I [...]
Test Post
Posted in uncategorized on 21 October 2009 | 1 Comment »
Just checking something out. Ignore pls.
Welcome!
Occasional thoughts on web and government communications. Everything here by Peter Smith.
-
My Delicious
Archives
Creative Commons
Spaghetti Testing by Peter Smith is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.Meta
Header Credit
Networked Blogs
What's a spaghetti test?
