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Entries from April 2008

Digital strategy 2.0 - online today

April 14th, 2008 · No Comments

Thanks to Zara, plus a press release from David Cunnliffe, I’ve found out that government today started consulting on the second edition of the Digital Strategy.
55 people on the Digital Future Summit 2.0 facebook group received a short alert from Zara letting us know that we can have our say.
Using online tools has been a […]

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Tags: eDemocracy · Policy, stats, etc

Anybody using a wiki?

April 14th, 2008 · 2 Comments

In preparation for the workshop I’m running next week I’m looking for examples of what wikis are used for. What I really want to find is examples of New Zealand community groups with a wiki, private or public.
So far, I’m struggling to find anything run by a New Zealand community group. Within government there is […]

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Tags: Websites

Gathering people together to take action

April 6th, 2008 · No Comments

When I was studying for my politics degree I doubtlessly would have taken a course on the intersection of politics and the internet. Had something like this been on offer, of course.
Skip forward to 2008 this might have involved enrolling in a course by the farsighted Howard Rheingold (author of The Virtual Community […]

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Tags: Social media, Web 2.0

479 nz blogs and counting

April 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I’ve just been added to a website listing blogs about New Zealand and by New Zealanders. When I checked today (4 April 2008) there were 479 blogs on Kiwiology.
I’m sure in time they’ll have loads of advertising, but at the moment the site is uncluttered. And even though the people behind Kiwiology are a […]

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Tags: Websites