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6. September 2011 – 15:15 by John Heaven (TuTech Innovation GmbH)
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Nikolaus Münster is Head of Press and Public Relations at the City Council in Frankfurt/Main, Germany. I spoke to him about the city’s “Social Media Newsroom“, which gathers content from all of its social media channels and presents it on one website.
Nikolaus gained inspiration for the idea when he took part in a European exchange programme in 2009, completing a secondment at Birmingham City Council. That is where I met him and where he learned about Birmingham News Room. Apart from anything, I think this is a nice bit of European best practice exchange, which can often be hard to quantify. It’s also nice to see Frankfurt getting something in return for the Christmas Market that they send to Birmingham ever winter!
John Heaven (JH): What is a Social Media Newsroom?
Nikolaus Münster (NM): Our Social Media Newsroom brings together all of our social media channels on one website. The user can view this site to see news about the city on Twitter, Facebook, blogs, YouTube and other media at a glance.
We have been using these means of communication for a while now. Since 2009 we have been on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. When we started we wanted to gain experience before actively publicising our social media presences. Now, social media are central to our communication strategy.
JH: What is the main aim of the Newsroom?
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19. May 2010 – 09:16 by John Heaven (TuTech Innovation GmbH)
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When Britons went to vote in the General Election on 6th May, some of them were locked out of the polling booths and were not able to cast their votes. An article on the PublicTechnology website suggested that eVoting could be the answer to this problem, and should be given another chance.
I spoke to Robert Krimmer – Director and Founder of the Competence Center for Electronic Voting in Austria and a founding member of PEP-NET – to find out whether he agreed.
John Heaven: Hi Robert. What is E-Voting.cc, and what do you mean by eVoting?
Robert Krimmer: E-Voting.cc is an Austrian Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) that fosters the development of eVoting. We deal with any type of eVoting – whether electronic machines in polling booths, internet voting, voting through cash machines, mobile phone voting. The important thing is that the act of casting a vote is done electronically.
JH: So does that include the punch-card system that is used in the United States?
RK: No, that is not included because the votes are counted electronically but not cast electronically. We use the Council of Europe’s definition of eVoting.
JH: You have heard about the problems that UK voters had last week: there were complaints about voters queuing for hours only to be turned away at 10pm. Could eVoting have solved this problem, as discussed in a recent PublicTechnology article?
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23. June 2009 – 13:36 by Bengt Feil (TuTech Innovation GmbH)
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Among those interested in the web Mr. O´Reilly does not need to be introduced. The founder of O´Reilly Media has been on the forefront of web development and an advocate of open source software since the 1980s. He may be best known among the social media crowd for his definition of the term Web 2.0 in 2005.
In the audio interview he is discussing the need and use of open source software and how its influence leads to changing business models. Most interestingly he talks about the recent development of applications and data moving into the cloud and the browser becoming the operating system. This development brings with it several problems, among which lock-in of users closed systems and their dependence on companies is one of the most pressing. Some companies may be tempted to build their business models on keeping their systems closed and monetizing on the lock-in of users. O´Reillys conclusion is that this view is short-sighted and companies have to be open-minded and supportive of open standards for data exchange to be successful in the long term.
I would highly recommend listening to this insightful and very entertaining interview.
The interview
Direct MP3 Link
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