GetUp! began in 2005. It is an Australian grass-roots community advocacy organisation that aims to build an accountable and progressive Australian Parliament, and for this reason it does not support any particular political party ('About GetUp!, FAQ (GetUp!)', n.d.). GetUp.org.au claims it is 'an independent political movement to build a progressive Australia' bringing 'like-minded people'...

This report examines the impact that social media has had on government policy, as well as how to manage the associated risk and leverage the benefits of social media. On 19 August 2010 the Victorian Managed Insurance Authority (VMIA) convened a roundtable, to discuss "Social Media: What's the Risk?" The VMIA roundtable series is designed...

Senior business and technical consultant James Dellow of Headshift discusses Gov 2.0 strategies at the Parliamentary Library on 23 June 2010.

This conversation with political analyist and 2010 Parlimentary Fellow, Dr Peter Brent, discusses the changing relationship with Federal politicians and the media.

IF YOU ARE ONE of the 150 million or so people who use gmail and you’ve checked your gmail account over the past week, you will know that Google has quietly launched its own version of Facebook, a social networking site called Buzz. If you stepped through setting up Buzz in the first few days...