New Media: Freedom for US Public Sector
Posted on March 27, 2009 by by madepercy
The US Public Sector has signed agreements with social networking sites to help improve transparency and assist in achieving President Obama’s goals. Link to stories is here.
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That is interesting, I wonder if Australian governments will try to follow with similar concepts?
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I think they ought to. I’ve just gotten back from the Innovative Ideas Forum at the National Library, where the topic was Social Media. It’s pretty clear to me that we are at the stepping off point to a completely different way of looking at media. Print newspapers are dying, social media is not only for finding out which of your friends are single (or ‘it’s complicated’) but for getting news, contributing to previously faceless corporations, and for sharing and distributing the stuff that really matters – ideas. Money used to make the world go around, now we’re looking at a world where information is the only currency that matters.
Like any people that are living through a revolution (rather than those looking back at it through the lens of hindsight) it’s hard to see what’s going to work and what isn’t. All we know (like those who witnessed the invention of the printing press) is that *something* is going to happen. And it’s going to be big.
Exciting times, don’t you think? People in the future are going to look back at us and say “those people living in 09/10, they had no idea what was about to hit them …”. And they’ll be absolutely correct!
L
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It sounds like a short story to me!
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Not quite as dystopian as the last one either
And the best bit? This is one is *true*!
L
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Now I’m going to have to look up dystopian.
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Oh! That dystopian ….
Not good, not good.
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I am sure someone will come up with a purple cow soon
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