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At the Gov2.0 taskforce road­show I ended up in con­ver­sa­tion with a rep­res­ent­at­ive of one Depart­ment bemoan­ing the fact the Gov­ern­ment will not give them extra money to make their web­sites WCAG 1.0 level 2 compliant.

My present­a­tion was done with little pre­par­a­tion and no slides, but I used a num­ber of sites as examples, so at Vel­vetSarah’s request, here are links to those sites. State Premier’s John Brumby Mike Rann Colin Barnett Blogs Trans­port Secur­ity Blog what a Gov­ern­ment blog should be State Lib­rary of West­ern Aus­tralia blog Face­book School Leavers […]

When research­ing the Gov­ern­ment web­sites in the Web 2.0 age present­a­tion for Bar­Camp Nano , I found a lack of resources avail­able on the web about gov­ern­ment use of web 2.0 tools. So instead of just post­ing that present­a­tion here, I cre­ated Gov Web2.0 show­case. A blog to spread the word that there are government […]

Research­ing Gov­ern­ment use of web 2.0 tech­no­logy for this week’s Bar­Camp Nano, I found the Ripped Off blog. Which allows NSW con­sumers to tell their stor­ies about being ripped off

The Ore­gon state gov­ern­ment is attempt­ing to change all of their web­sites into a single look and into a cent­ral con­tent man­age­ment sys­tem (CMS). While I can see some advant­ages with their approach, I can see some prob­lems ahead for them and also I dis­agree with some of the meth­ods used.