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"The Taskforce’s final report, Engage: Getting on with Government 2.0, was handed to Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner and Special Minister of State Joe Ludwig today. The Ministers have decided to release the report to the public immediately." - Lee Bryant

"Headshift developed a series of practical resources to provide guidance to government agencies using Web 2.0 tools and provided a recommendation for a toolkit of Web 2.0 technologies that agencies can use based on principles of shared services and re-use." Released under Creative Commons. - Lee Bryant

Diagrams from the Online Engagement Guidelines, created by Headshift for the Australian Government 2.0 Taskforce. Released under Creative Commons. - Lee Bryant

For the most part the technology to enable online communities has evolved a lot further than our practical knowledge of using online communities in a business or government context. However, recent Headshift projects show how sophisticated our knowledge of online communities is finally becoming. - Lee Bryant

Two brief case studies about Procter & Gamble (using Telligent 's community platform) and Dell's EmployeeStorm as examples of how intranets are evolving into social platforms for employee collaboration and innovation. - Lee Bryant

This is the draft Government 2.0 Taskforce report Engage: Getting on with Government 2.0. The Taskforce is seeking your comments and input until Wednesday 16th December, before finalising the report to go to Government. - Lee Bryant

The depth of the recent recession blindsided most businesses. As the economy starts to recover, many business leaders are thinking, "If I had seen this coming sooner, I could have acted faster, decreased my risk and enhanced my opportunities for growth." There is a way to see things coming. It's a framework for proactively seeking and acting on the early and often-termed "weak" signals forming patterns in the marketplace. It's also about the ability to model the impact of patterns on your organization and identify the disciplines and technologies that help you consistently adapt. It's called Pattern-Based Strategy. - Lee Bryant

MyPublicServices - Social media could transform the NHS and other public services in the same way that file-sharing changed the music industry. - Lee Bryant

Transcript of Australian Federal Senator Kate Lundy's NICTA Big Picture Seminar Series covering Government 2.0, open government, policy and technical foundations for open government, case studies and more. - Lee Bryant

Looking through a very old copy of Martin Gardner’s Mathematical Games, I stumbled upon his article about Flexagons and thought “what would these look like with maps on them?”. This is what they look like (at a really low resolution), but it is much more fun to make your own… - Lee Bryant

"I hope over the coming years we see Australian governments embrace serendipity rather than attempt unsuccessfully to chain it. I hope we see bureaucrats and citizens working collaboratively to address major issues, working in adaptive and flexible configurations rather than rigid silos, stepping beyond 'consultation' towards participatory policy development and evolution." - Lee Bryant

This Pew Internet Personal Networks and Community survey is the first ever that examines the role of the internet and cell phones in the way that people interact with those in their core social network. Our key findings challenge previous research and commonplace fears about the harmful social impact of new technology. - Lee Bryant

Abstract: Operators of online social networks are increasingly sharing potentially sensitive information about users and their relationships with advertisers, application developers, and data-mining researchers. Privacy is typically protected by anonymization, i.e., removing names, addresses, etc. We present a framework for analyzing privacy and anonymity in social networks and develop a new re-identification algorithm targeting anonymized social-network graphs. To demonstrate its effectiveness on real-world networks, we show that a third of the users who can be verified to have accounts on both Twitter, a popular microblogging service, and Flickr, an online photo-sharing site, can be re-identified in the anonymous Twitter graph with only a 12% error rate. Our de-anonymization algorithm is based purely on the network topology, does not require creation of a large number of dummy "sybil" nodes, is robust to noise and all existing defenses, and works even when the overlap between the - Lee Bryant

After deliberation, the judges gave honourable mentions to the teams: What The Federal Government, Project TeaLady and It's Buggered, Mate. The Lonely Planet Award went to Rate My Loo for embodying the spirit of the day. Second place went to Know where you live. And the winning mashup was LobbyClue. - Lee Bryant

"A fascinating dialogue is developing between psychologists and security engineers... ...This page provides links to a number of key papers, workshops, the home pages of active researchers, relevant books, and other resources. Complementary pages include my security economics resource page and Alessandro Acquisti's privacy economics page." - Lee Bryant

"...a long history of project failures involving large clinical information systems (CIS) shows that importing readymade software isn't the answer. For one thing, they don’t cater to the administrative differences in the Australian health system." - Lee Bryant

The PT501 aka the OU Micro - Lee Bryant

"Where many education authorities continue to routinely block, filter and ban social networks not just for youngsters but for teaching and management staff, new research from Gartner (via Euan Semple) reveals yet more logic behind opening up networks and encouraging teachers, learners and managers to network online as well as at their twice-a-year in-service get-togethers" - Lee Bryant

Includes links to the recording of the Webinar and slides plus further reading and case studies. - Lee Bryant

Jevon writes, Will Sharepoint become a true Social Business platform? The answer just might be yes, but the key word here is “platform.” - Lee Bryant

"Yesterday I was posting a few thoughts on the fall-out from Jan Moir's article about the death of Boyzone's Stephen Gately. People have linked these events with those surrounding The Guardian & Trafigura earlier last week as showing a big shift in the power balance between 'the establishment', represented by the media and big business, and 'the people', represented by @stephenfry on Twitter. I think these events are a continuation of a longer term trend, where complaining about issues and whipping up a vortex of righteous disgust on the Internet has become easier and easier." - Lee Bryant

Here’s the problem: we’ve never worked together before. How could we work together and have a united approach to design? What’s so unique about us? Can we figure this out even if we’re working remotely? - Lee Bryant

Cucumber is a high-level testing framework which is designed to let you use Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) to create Ruby on Rails applications. Cucumber’s unique feature is that it uses English (or a number of other supported languages) to define an application’s behaviour. In this episode we’re going to create a Rails application from scratch, and use Cucumber to define its behaviour. - Lee Bryant

The puppet and live action series of Gerry Anderson enthralled me as a child, and were the inspiration for what I do today, editing and co-publishing a number of specialist titles on science fiction and fantasy modelling and special effects subjects. At a time in the '60s when special effects in film and television were in their infant stage, Gerry's productions were streets ahead (compare the slick visuals in Thunderbirds with those in an episode of Doctor Who from the same period), his team consistently producing realistic looking vehicles and environments and pioneering a number of techniques that would be embraced by the FX industry as a whole, one of the most notable being that of 'kit-bashing'. - Lee Bryant

Social software platforms, including services such as Facebook and Twitter, have become one of the primary channels for communication amongst consumer - Lee Bryant

A VIRTUAL emergency response centre dubbed Collabbit could be just what relief agencies need to coordinate their aid efforts in the aftermath of a disaster when speed is crucial. Collabbit is the handiwork of the Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software project (HFOSS). It acts as central repository for information, sending out project updates to workers via RSS or text message. Collabbit recently performed well in a simulated emergency. - Lee Bryant

Clive Thompson in Wired has summed up some definitive research that backs up what many of us have been saying from our guts for years: kids have never been reading and writing so much, and with the proliferation of social networks and mobile messaging this stat will only increase with time: - Lee Bryant

Dennis Howlett analyzing the issues faced by senior business practitioners who work with enterprise software. - Lee Bryant

One of the thorniest problems we've faced in knowledge management has been how to explain what we do. Ray Sims set out to determine if there was a definition - Lee Bryant

Dion Hinchcliffe on leveraging the convergence of IT and the next generation of the Web. - Lee Bryant