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Understanding Government 2.0

Walter — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 23:20:00 +0000

A view of what Government 2.0 could be (courtesy of ZD Net) What does Government 2.0 mean? Does it merely entail government agencies embracing the use of multiple social technologies and community platforms? Is it reflective of a more open, engaging and inclusive approach to governance? Or does it epitomise the beginning of active citizenry […]

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Be a Participatory Citizen at GovCamp

Walter — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 22:53:00 +0000

Want to play a part in shaping how government can better serve you through social technologies? Got a burning desire to change the delivery of essential services? Why not participate in the first ever Singapore GovCamp? Taking place on 19th Jan (Wed) on NUS Campus, Singapore GovCamp hopes to “connect the Government with the general […]

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Clay Shirky on The Future of Organisations

Walter — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:05:00 +0000

Broad and sweeping, yet detailed and penetrating, Clay Shirky’s volume “Here Come’s Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations” is a tour de force of how technology influences group activity and organisation. Shirky skillfully blended social sciences like psychology, sociology and anthropology with elements of the social web – mailing lists, forums, blogs, Youtube, Flickr, […]

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Social Media in the World of Museums

Walter — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 07:04:00 +0000

Clay Shirky speaks at the Smithsonian (courtesy of taoboy) After several weeks of doing some online research/surfing/bumming around and asking friends (like the ultra intelligent Kevin Lim), I managed to get a handle (well partially) on what’s happening for social media in the museum world. Here’s what I found after some digging around: First is […]

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Getting Past The Social Media Hype

Walter — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:03:00 +0000

Courtesy of butler.melvin This article first appeared in Marketing magazine in February 2008. I thought it would be useful to share it with you here. And yes, I am back to blogging again after a super long hiatus! By now, every publicist worth his or her salt would have heard of the wonders of new […]

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Lovin’ Those Trails

Walter — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:11:00 +0000

At the recent IPRS Conference (PR 2.0) where I was invited to share as a panellist, I was inspired by Christopher Grave’s presentation which covered amongst other things the concept of “love trails”. These are paths off the beaten track created by folks to provide short-cuts from point A to point B. As a runner […]

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From London With Love

Walter — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:17:00 +0000

Came across this brilliant post by CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide Kevin Roberts. Apparently, the Museum of London (yeah its a museum folks) is using Google Earth to create a Love Map of the city. According to Kevin, “You register, locate a place on the map (like all Google-style maps it zooms in from […]

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Are We Chasing Bright Shiny Objects?

Walter — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 00:54:00 +0000

Read this brilliant post by Steve Rubel of Micro Persuasion fame. The main thrust of his post is that it still all boils down to understanding good old human behaviour as opposed to simply chasing the latest, greatest and coolest out there in the planet. Quoting from him: “…Every day it seems there’s a hot […]

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The Exciting World of Social Media

Walter — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:50:00 +0000

Podtech.net’s Jeremiah Owyang with The Digital Movement’s founder Steve Ng At the recent iX-TDM New Media Forum, I had the privilege of meeting and hearing from Jeremiah Owyang. The director of corporate media strategy at Podtech.net, Jeremiah is a social media consultant to big guns like HP, Cisco and Hitachi. In his session, he spoke […]

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Blogout was a Blast!

Walter — Thu, 24 May 2007 16:15:00 +0000

Blogging singer Genie sharing what tickles her fancy at Blogout Just came back from Blogout which was a big social media bash at Geek Terminal attended by (who else) 2.0 geeks and celeb bloggers galore! The night was certainly interesting, with a veritable who’s who in the blogging scene making their appearances including Tomorrow.sg’s founder […]

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