The government has rushed to adopt wholeheartedly the lean agenda, seeing quick cost savings with no real interest in the espousal of value. John Seddon has a new podcast that explains where lean went seriously wrong. Partly because it treated services like factories. It is a seminal moment in the improvement world. ITunes>Podcasts>search for The Systems Thinking Review>download & sign up comments and thoughts welcome Howard The Systems Thinking Review
A good colection of Social Media Policy examples, assembled by 123SocialMedia Blog Council - Disclosure Policy Greteman Group (Marketing Agency) IBM Social Computing Guidelines CISCO Internet Postings Policy HP Code of Conduct Intel - Social Media Guidelines Opera Employee Blogging Policies Sun Guidelines on Public Disclosure Harvard Law School - Terms & Policy BBC - Editorial Guidelines, personal use of Social Networking US Navy - Web 2.0 - Utilizing New Web Tools CivilServ...
The geekier ones amongst you may already have come across this story from the ReadWriteWeb site about 10 Ways that Social Media Will Change in 2009 - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/10_ways_social_media_will_change_in_2009.php Couple of quick extracts: But social media today is a pure mess: it has become a collection of countless features, tools, and applications fighting for a piece of the pie. Meaning and connection -- two key anchors of all things social media -- are corroding by t...
Inevitably the tragic situation in Gaza is reflected in social media, but it is interesting to see the willingness of the Israeli Defence Forces to use both YouTube and Twitter to push their views. http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2008/12/31/war-20-the-idf-are-using-youtube-and-twitter/ I am sure there are also plenty of examples of facebook/twitter/youtube be used to make the opposing case as well.
The US Federal Web Managers have made a plea for greater use of social media by US public agencies and work through systematically the barriers that are currently holding this back and how to overcome these barriers. A useful list (and quite a few barriers that would not have immediately occured to me). http://www.usa.gov/webcontent/documents/SocialMediaFed%20Govt_BarriersPotentialSolutions.pdf
Yesterday, the Federal Web Managers Council (FWMC) of US Government published a report on "Social Media and the Federal Government: Perceived and Real Barriers and Potential Solutions." (PDF) . The paper adresses the perceived and real barriers to using social media and recommend potential solutions. Cultural issues, lack of a strategy for using these new tools, employee access to online tool, advertising, procurement, privacy, acess for people with disabilit...