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Government 2.0: Policy & Practice

by Des Walsh on 06/20/2009 22:43 0 comments , 51 views
Categories: Corporate Blogging resources, Partners, Blogs & Bloggers, Australia & Asia
Tags: des walsh, canberra, government 2.0: policy and practice

I’m off to the national capital, Canberra, tonight for the all day event at Parliament House, Government 2.0: Policy and Practice. As indicated in a previous post, I’m speaking on the subject: Why parliamentarians and public sector managers need to participate in social media. The sub-head is: briefings and slide shows won’t cut it.

I plan to live blog the event with the help of Coveritlive and am embedding the code for that here. I’ll switch i...

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Speaking at Government 2.0: Policy and Practice

by Des Walsh on 06/16/2009 03:08 0 comments , 95 views
Categories: Corporate Blogging resources, Partners, Blogs & Bloggers, Australia & Asia
Tags: social media, open government camp

Got the word this morning that I’m scheduled to speak at the Government 2.0: Policy and Practice event next Monday in Australia’s national capital, Canberra. The fact that the event is being held within Parliament House makes me feel doubly appreciative.

This is the event I posted about a couple of weeks ago as Open Government Camp and Social Media.

Because I’d thought of the event till now as something of an upscale barcamp, I think I’d been ...

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Daily Blog Cruise Choice Posts

by Des Walsh on 06/12/2009 01:37 0 comments , 42 views
Categories: Corporate Blogging resources, Partners, Blogs & Bloggers, Australia & Asia
Tags: social media, pitch engine, pr, social media release, small business, brands, pr 2.0

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Business Blogging Has Bright Future: Survey

by Des Walsh on 06/10/2009 21:29 0 comments , 57 views
Categories: Corporate Blogging resources, Partners, Blogs & Bloggers, Australia & Asia
Tags: blogging, business, social mediam business blogging

According to a new survey on business applications of social media, blogging is not old news, but actually looks set for a bright future.

comingchangeAlthough it suits some commentators to proclaim the demise of blogging, Josh Gordon in his report The Coming Change in Social Media Business Applications, says that blogging is shaping up, along with LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, as an increasingly relevant social media tool, indeed perhaps the most relevan...

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Daily Blog Cruise Choice Posts

by Des Walsh on 06/10/2009 01:22 0 comments , 55 views
Categories: Corporate Blogging resources, Partners, Blogs & Bloggers, Australia & Asia
Tags: australia, social media, china, pr20, net, filter, net censorship, pr, social media release, budget
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Gary Vaynerchuk Videos as Social Media Consulting Filter

by Des Walsh on 06/05/2009 00:44 0 comments , 80 views
Categories: Corporate Blogging resources, Partners, Blogs & Bloggers, Australia & Asia
Tags: social media, gary vaynerchuk, @garyvee

By way of a chance conversation after a Toastmasters meeting at which I was a guest the other night, I’ve found one way to share some information about social media in business without getting into lengthy and potentially confusing explanation.

Namely to point people to a couple of videos of the amazing Gary Vaynerchuk, @garyvee on Twitter.

During the conversation after the Toastmasters event, and in response to a question from the business ow...

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Open Government Camp and Social Media

by Des Walsh on 06/03/2009 01:29 0 comments , 102 views
Categories: Corporate Blogging resources, Partners, Blogs & Bloggers, Australia & Asia

Although there may well be available by more information on social media in business small and large than any one person could absorb in a lifetime, my sense is that we are only just beginning the journey to understanding how social media can work, or not, in the government sphere.

As a social media strategist who is a former Federal and State public sector executive and over several years a consultant to various government agencies, I’ve wonde...

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Daily Blog Cruise Choice Posts

by Des Walsh on 06/02/2009 01:22 0 comments , 63 views
Categories: Corporate Blogging resources, Partners, Blogs & Bloggers, Australia & Asia
Tags: china, business, web2.0, mobinode


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Cool New Tool for Finding and Sharing Travel Information

by Des Walsh on 05/29/2009 02:55 0 comments , 79 views
Categories: Corporate Blogging resources, Partners, Blogs & Bloggers, Australia & Asia
Tags: travel, amap.to, cool tool, trips, trip

aMap.toSome cool people I know have produced a cool tool for creating short map links for your email, Twitter, social networks and blogs. aMAP.to is a tool to guide people to destinations with travel-related information for their trips.

If you have ever gone through the process of trying to send to someone, successfully, a link to a Google map, you will know that the process is, putting it politely, a nuisance. The URLs are just so long!

This for, in...

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5 Basic Rules for Creating an Effective About Page

by Des Walsh on 05/26/2009 23:40 0 comments , 343 views
Categories: Corporate Blogging resources, Partners, Blogs & Bloggers, Australia & Asia
Tags: about, about page, promo

This short list of basic rules for creating an effective About page has been prompted by my frustration with the number of blogs and other websites that either do not have an About page or, more commonly in my experience, do not put their About page to work effectively in the interests of their business.

From my observation over a number of years, the About page is one of the most neglected or poorly executed parts of many blogs and other websi...

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