Comments on: How does a Conservative Government Change it's Spots & Adopt Social Media http://raebuerckner.com/index.php/2009/07/01/how-does-a-conservative-government-change-its-spots-adopt-social-media/ Twitter is my RSS feed Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:07:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: valeri http://raebuerckner.com/index.php/2009/07/01/how-does-a-conservative-government-change-its-spots-adopt-social-media/comment-page-1/#comment-14 valeri Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:02:54 +0000 http://raebuerckner.com/?p=40#comment-14 <b>Each Agency will need existing staff either trained, and trained well in Social Media or engage an existing Social Media resource, with individual agencies adopting the Whole of Government Framework and adapting to their Agencies needs.</b> I am actually happy to finally hear someone talking about the skills needed to run these jobs and not the actual tools for the jobs. The gov could spend millions on new apps and tech but if staff don't understand or even care about new web technologies then what is the point? I know many so called "web officers" who didn't know what blogging or twitter was a few months ago, many don't even know or care about it right now. Another issue is web officers who take their jobs as a typical public service job 9am to 5pm. Of course it is a public service job but IT is not like PA type of job and when it comes to the WWW you need to keep researching, studying and learning all the time. There should be a review on current State and Federal gov web areas and if staff don't have the skills to do their job then they can have two options, 1. get some training or 2. just go somewhere else I think I have to go to the gov 2.0 site and suggest that. :-) Each Agency will need existing staff either trained, and trained well in Social Media or engage an existing Social Media resource, with individual agencies adopting the Whole of Government Framework and adapting to their Agencies needs.

I am actually happy to finally hear someone talking about the skills needed to run these jobs and not the actual tools for the jobs.

The gov could spend millions on new apps and tech but if staff don’t understand or even care about new web technologies then what is the point?

I know many so called “web officers” who didn’t know what blogging or twitter was a few months ago, many don’t even know or care about it right now.

Another issue is web officers who take their jobs as a typical public service job 9am to 5pm. Of course it is a public service job but IT is not like PA type of job and when it comes to the WWW you need to keep researching, studying and learning all the time.

There should be a review on current State and Federal gov web areas and if staff don’t have the skills to do their job then they can have two options, 1. get some training or 2. just go somewhere else

I think I have to go to the gov 2.0 site and suggest that. :-)

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