http://gov2.info Showcasing Government sites in the Web2.0 age Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:49:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Google Analytics, is a great tool for analysing site usage and find out a little about your visitors. Like almost 85% of traffic to the State Library website is from Australia, and the great majority from Perth. With a few exceptions, for example the visitors to the music library pages ... http://gov2.info/site-demographic/ I am not your typical IT person, I am definitely think of myself as part of the communication in ICT. Providing assistance in the technological side of communicating over the internet. Yet I behaved like your typical IT person when asked to find a blogging solution a year ago. I ... http://gov2.info/the-joy-of-letting-go/ Technosailor has just posted US Congress trying to stop Representatives from using social media. Apparently the Franking Commission, created to govern how Congress used their right to mail letters to constituents for free, does not like online communications from Congress from any other source than a House.gov space. While the original ... http://gov2.info/are-us-politicians-scared-of-social-media/ One of the reasons I started this blog, there was very few blogs in the eGov space. I recently discovered three blogs covering the .gov.uk space and if you are interest I highly recommend you subscribed to their feeds. Whitehall Webby - digital media in government Emma Mulqueeny extended reach However, my favourite recent ... http://gov2.info/a-few-good-blogs-about-gov/ I was following a link from the Victorian eGovernment Resource Centre feeds (highly recommend, you will find the links on the home page), to the online forum about a report into Melbourne’s east-west transport needs. I was a little disappointed to the find that the forum appears to be a ... http://gov2.info/victorian-premier-youtube-channe/ Red Cross MidWest Flooding Using Wordpress.com, Flickr, Youtube and Twitter to keep the information flowing My experience with NFP organisations, particularly the larger ones is that they are conservative in their approach to almost everything including new technology. So I was very surprised when I got pointed to the American Red Cross ... http://gov2.info/if-an-nfp-can-do-it-why-not-a-gov-agency/ transperth.wa.gov.au There is one government agency in Western Australia who is being innovative. Their web site is very ordinary, their trip planner is clunky and do not try to download timetables. However, it is outside their website where their innovation lives. First there is their partnership with Google Maps to provide ... http://gov2.info/somebody-is-doing-it-right-in-the-wagovau-space/ Future MelbourneThe City of Melbourne is using a wiki to consult with their stakeholders about the direction the city should take for future, to 2020 and beyond. The wiki is only one tool in consultation process, but I am very interested in seeing the direction this will take. Seeing this is ... http://gov2.info/a-local-government-gets-it/ NZ’s Identity Verification Service I find it hard to believe the UN ranking New Zealand 10 spots below Australia (18th and 8th respectively) in their e-government readiness rankings. New Zealand are doing some of the most innovate work in the world in e-government, just look at the Police Act wiki. The latest ... http://gov2.info/the-next-step-igovt/ aka Spook 2.0 A wiki that covers a over a dozen different agency, with over 35,000 articles, 200,000 pages, 37,000 users, 100 new articles and 4,000 edits a day is pretty impressive. Especially when you find out the agencies involved are intelligence agencies who had reputation for being less than ... http://gov2.info/intellipedia/