Government 2.0 - Best Practices Wiki

 

Australia

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Social Media/ Channel(s) Used

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Australian Government Information Management Office - Government 2.0 Taskforce External To increase the openness of government, and encourage online engagement through  Government 2.0 initatives Blog In Progress   Taskforce Secretariat
contact@gov2.net.au
 

ABS (Australian Bureau of Statistics)

βetaWorks

 

External

Source external views on new ABS online initiatives.

Quote: ABS βetaWorks is a development environment for new designs and concepts for the ABS website. βetaworks allows ABS Designers to showcase what we're working on and find out what you think. Using your insights and ideas, we can continue to improve the ABS website experience for all.

Blog In Progress      
apps4nsw External

Public competition to foster and promote the development of innovative digital applications and web services using public and government data relating to New South Wales.

Web In Progress      
ATO (Australian Tax Office)
e-tax Facebook group
 
External To raise awareness and increase usage of e-tax amongst younger Australians Facebook In Progress      
Australian War Memorial External To share information on Australia's military history

Blog

Flickr

Facebook

Youtube

      Good use of social media and intergrating on-line efforts with tradional media relations
Department of Health and Ageing External help people with incontinence (also travelers and people with young families) National Public Toilet Map  ongoing     mashup combining info from several govt DBs
Royal Australian Airforce External   Facebook group ongoing      

AUSTRADE

External

Businesses looking to export 

Blog

RSS

 

 

   

Department of broadband, communications and Digital Economy

External 

Public consultation

Blog

 

The trial is now completed and results are being reviewed.

 

 

 

Prime Minister

External

Public Information
  • YouTube
  • Twitter
  • Facebook

 

 

  The Prime Minister is using YouTube regularly to communicate with Australians.  
Centrelink External Inform the community about Commonwealth services, support and payments Twitter Ongoing   new.media@centrelink.gov.au  
Department for Families and Communities, South Australia

Internal

Chief Executive

Blog called Spe@k e-

  • improve organisational communication
  • provide an online forum for sharing views and opinions which lead to business improvements
  • foster strong and trusting relationships between staff and their CE
  • trial the use of technology to inform Web 2.0 strategy development
 
Blog      fergus.hogart@dfc.sa.gov.au  
Forest Products Commission, Western Australia Social media Trial social media technologies/services to increase awareness of and participation in agency activities/outputs In progress More information

Michael Harris, Web Administrator

michael.harris@fpc.wa.gov.au

 
 
Consultation

Deploy two-way conversation tool to engage with staff on issues. Inspired by Australia 2, which uses Nation Builder platform.

 

More information

In-house developed application In development More information

More information

Immigration and Citizenship ImmiTV
ImmiTV is where youll find stories about how we help people from all over the world visit, study, work and live in Australia. Video via Youtube Production      
NSW Public Libraries: Learning 2.0 External an online program to learn more about emerging technologies on the web that are changing the way people, society and libraries access information and communicate with each other. Blog        

National Archives of Australia

External

Make archival records visible and findable; enrich the archival account of history

Mapping Our Anzacs – Mash-up of Google maps, WWI service records, Tumblr;

Flickr photostream;

Facebook page;

YouTube channel

 

MoA is very successful in terms of page views and contributions to the digital scrapbook

A book chapter on lessons learned is in progress

 

webeditors@naa.gov.au  

State Library of Western Australia

External

Varied, each individual projects based on organisational needs. Social Bookmarking started as small project to sychronise bookmarks across a handful of computers. Now used by most staff who deal with public via AskNow or face to face.

Blog

Delicous for Reference and Family History

Facebook application

Consultation Wikis

Social Bookmarking has been very sucessful. Blogs also sucessful

Training helps, but really need champions within organisation. Nick Cowie nick.cowie@slwa.wa.gov.au  
yourHealth - Department of Health and Ageing External Public consultation and education site supporting health reform

Blog

RSS

Twitter

Social bookmarking

 

In progress, positive response thus far Must create hooks into existing communities to draw in interested participants yourhealth@yourhealth.gov.au Site is still expanding its engagement mix.
www.nationalculturalpolicy.com.au External Public consultation Forum Continuing for approx 3 months, positive response Promotion is key kylie.johnson@environment.gov.au  

 

Unofficial

 

Name

Description
Author(s)

Additional

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eGov AU Gov 2.0 and eGovernment thoughts and speculations from an Australian perspective Craig Thomler Thinking and daily updates about Gov 2.0 and egovernment developments in Australia and around the world.
Traffic on Maine The only PR and Marketing Blog from Australia's National Capital   Regular updates about issues affecting government communications in Australia. About 250 government and other communicators subscribe to this blog.

Harmony Day

 

First time use of social media in this 10 year old campaign

 

Harmony Day is 21 March.  The campaign celebrates Australia's cultural diversity and this year there were over 4250 events across Australia. 

 

Information was provided (in a modest way) via Twitter, Facebook, blogs, Youtube and Wikipedia.  People also used social media platforms to share their Harmony Day plans. 

 

2009 was the first cross-platform use of social media for this campaign.

Local Government & Municipal Knowledge Base

Wiki based Encyclopedic Knowledge Base

  An information sharing resources for Australian & New Zealand Local Governments & Water Authorities.

 

Comments (5)

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Michael Harris said

at 10:52 am on Jul 24, 2009

Have created a project-specific page for the two projects who's details I've contributed here. Having their information in the main column list makes them scroll off the edge of the screen, with PBwiki displaying the page in an iframe (not ideal).

Also, the idea of a project specific details page is a far more flexible option for displaying sizable amounts of information.

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Anne Groundwater said

at 12:00 am on Aug 12, 2009

Hi, just wondering if anyone in Australia knows whether the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is using Web 2.0 in any way shape or form? I'm doing a Masters paper on Web 2.0 in Government focusing on the ATO. Thanks.

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Michael Harris said

at 8:49 pm on Aug 17, 2009

Nothing I'm aware of from the ATO Anne.

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Michael Harris said

at 10:20 pm on Aug 27, 2009

Gov 2.0 taskforce entry added, why wasn't it already there..

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Craig Thomler said

at 5:15 pm on Oct 16, 2009

Anne,

A late reply, but the ATO has an e-Tax facebook group at http://www.facebook.com/ATOetax?v=box_3

Otherwise I'm not sure what material you will find for your Masters paper. Would love to read it when you're finished! Please publish it rather than letting it disappear into the murky halls of academia.

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