Rialtas.net – Government 2.0

I just came across this useful collection of articles on Social Media on Business week – ‘An executive guide to social media’
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Brian Cowen is the current Taoiseach of Ireland (pronounced tea-shock – this is the position of head of government)

Cowen addresses the nation in a series of new videos , addressing seven questions posed by members of the public (selected from several thousand submissions).
The videos are embedded in the government’s party website www.fiannafail.ie  and are embedded [...]

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AMAS   consultant and Managing Director Aileen O’Toole recently launched a new incentive on the web in Ireland entitled ‘The Ideas Campaign’

From the website:
The Ideas Campaign is about asking people for ideas to stimulate economic activity. It is challenging people in Ireland to be innovative and creative and to play their part in planning this country’s [...]

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A new report launched last week by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) finds that HR is failing to take advantage of many opportunities presented by Web 2.0 technology. (onrec.com)
Web 2.0 and Human Resource Management: ‘Groundswell’ or hype?, which aims to inform on the latest thinking as well as outline good practice strategy [...]

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Came across this text ‘Network Citizens: Power and Responsibility at Work‘ via Paul Glazowski at Mashable.com

Here is an excerpt from the foreword by Robert Ainger, Corporate Director, Orange Business
One of the key findings within this research is the tension that distinctions between purely personal and professional life are becoming increasingly blurred and that this is [...]

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I have just returned from attending (and speaking at) the ‘Seminar – Citizen Participation in the Wiki and Facebook Era ‘ at the IPA in Dublin. An interesting and worthwhile day..
All of the presentations were very interesting and will all be online shortly. I will update you on their availability and provide a full report [...]

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from an article by Tim Ferguson on Silicon.com
Businesses should exploit their employees’ knowledge of web 2.0 in order to fully take advantage of the tech, according to analysts.
With more consumers than ever involved with social networking, user-generated content and cloud-based apps, businesses should be using their employees’ web 2.0 skills to make the workforce more [...]

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I Have just finished attending an excellent symposium  ‘Government 2.0 and Beyond…Harnessing Collective Intelligence’ which was hosted by the US Assistant Secretary of Defense (Networks and Information Integration) DOD Chief Information Officer and the Information Resources Management College, US National Defense University.
Government 2.0 Symposium in the IRM Government Center in Second Life

The Panelists were
• David [...]

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I have seen a recent resurgance in the blogosphere of awareness of and debate around Levine, Locke, Searls & Weinberger’s ‘Cluetrain Manifesto’, a seminal book (published in 1999) outlining 95 Theses on the newly connected marketplace, enabled by the Internet.  Having re-read the book again recently it is clear that this Manifesto presaged the powerful emergence [...]

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 From RRW
If you were interviewing someone for a position with your company and they admitted that they didn’t know anything about the new trends and innovations taking place in their field, what would you think? Likely, what you would think is “next candidate, please.” In today’s business world, job-seekers are expected to stay current with [...]

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