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Why I’m Complying With the FTC Regime for Bloggers Even Though I Don’t Have To

A view from a blogger outside the USA about the FTC’s new “guidance” on disclosure One of my first thoughts on learning this week of the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announcement on endorsements and testimonials was that as I don’t live in the US it does not apply to me. One of my next

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Government 2.0 at Barcamp Brisbane

Yesterday, Saturday July 18, I spoke at Barcamp Brisbane on some impressions from the Public Sphere #2 event Government 2.0: Policy and Practice workshop held a few weeks ago in the Australian National Capital, Canberra and shared some thoughts about more local possibilities, especially at Queensland State Government level. There is a two part video

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Social Media in the Public Sector: Workshop Presentation

On Monday last I spoke in Australia’s national capital, Canberra, at a Government 2.0 workshop. My subject was “Why parliamentarians and public sector managers need to participate actively in social media”. I used some slides to illustrate particular points: Gov20canberra0609 View more documents from Des Walsh. The video of the presentation is here: Public Sphere:

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Social Media in the Public Sector: Presentation

This post is simply a placeholder for the original post of the stated date : Social Media in the Public Sector:Workshop Presentation It has been placed here because somehow several other sites have a truncated version of the URL, so the links are showing up as Page Not Found.

Government 2.0: Policy & 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

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