Category Archives: Community Engagement

Your Web Team Needs a Librarian

By Martin Boyce | Published: July 23, 2010
One of the problems with many local government web sites is that the responsibility for creating and maintaining the web site falls under the authority of the Marketing/Communications department or the IT department. While there are undoubtedly clever people employed in marketing and IT they are often not web specialists and not well placed to maintain and develop outstanding user experiences on local government web sites. This article argues for the implementation of web teams and the inclusion of librarians on those web teams.
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An invitation to Edit > Remix > Improve Project 8

By james.dellow | Published: July 23, 2010
In what felt like a blink of an eye, the Federal Government’s Gov 2.0 Taskforce appeared in June last year, made its investigations and then had wrapped up by December just as quickly as it had started. From a local government perspective, you might well have ignored the whole process – particularly if you focus [...]
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Our future on the web

By Diana Mounter | Published: September 17, 2009
I was asked at a conference recently “is print dead?”. My answer was no, not yet. Ten years ago when I was working in the printing industry there was concern that print wouldn’t be around in five years time, that everything would be on the web.
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Tweeting the live local challenge

By John MacFarlane | Published: September 17, 2009
Twitter, the latest social networking tool to reach global proportions, offers a great deal of potential, and also a great deal of hype. Media outlets around the world took notice of Twitter this year, and its use as an organising and information tool in Iran after elections in June put to rest suggestions that the microblogging [...]
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