[LINK] Australian Government Web Publishing Guide

[Tom Worthington]

The Australian Government Information Management Office have set up the
"Government Web Publishing Guide Review Project Blog" at:
<http://wpgblog.agimo.gov.au/>.

As the name suggests, this is a blog for the project reviewing the
government web publishing guidelines. Like all organisations, the
Australian Government has struggled to work out how to use blogs. So far 
the blog is a little cold and impersonal and they could lighten the tone 
a little. But at least they have not made the mistake of some 
politicians who have tried a young hip cool style which sound phoney.

AGIMO's previous attempt at consultation on web guidelines by using
focus groups run by social scientists was entertaining, but not very
useful:
<http://www.tomw.net.au/blog/2009/07/australian-government-web-publishing.html>

AGIMO also asked recently about the use of PDF and I assume this will be
discussed in the same blog:
http://www.tomw.net.au/blog/2009/10/replace-pdf-with-accessible-web-pages.html

My notes for Australian National University students may be of interest:

* Website design: <http://www.tomw.net.au/2009/wd/
* E-documents: <http://www.tomw.net.au/technology/it/ecommerce_2009/>

These use Australian Government examples and have been used for teaching 
public servants and staff of companies contracted to the government 
since 2000. This year was the last I will be giving conventional 
lectures for, having decided that flexible learning would be better.


-- 
Tom Worthington FACS HLM, TomW Communications Pty Ltd. t: 0419496150
PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia  http://www.tomw.net.au
Adjunct Lecturer, The Australian National University t: 02 61255694
Computer Science http://cs.anu.edu.au/people.php?StaffID=140274