Loving our Wired, Social Government

I’m loving seeing the adoption of social media by our New Zealand Government and in particular, John Key (Prime Minister). Well done John!

Looking back, I don’t think this would have worked with Labour, as Helen Clark wasn’t exactly what I’d call an ‘approachable’ lady, but the Nats  have done it well! John Key is really coming across as a decent chap I could have a coffee with.

This does beg the obvious question though:

“With the rapid onset of social media, and keeping in mind the person using it needs to be ‘Followable’ to be ‘Followed’, will the next election be won (or ‘steered’) based on the candidate’s ‘Online Personality’ rather than their ‘Policies’?

Anyway, here’s an interesting list of some New Zealand Government social media and other online links:

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Twitter: (NZ Official Government Twitter accounts)

• Twitter: John Key (Prime Minister)
• Twitter: New Zealand Companies Office
• Twitter: Personal Property Securities Register
• Twitter: Business.govt.nz Portal
• Twitter: National Library of New Zealand
• Twitter: NZ Historydotnet
• Twitter: Ministry for Culture and Heritage – NZLive
• Twitter: Ministry for Culture and Heritage – Te Ara
• Twitter: NZ on Air
• Twitter: NZ2011.govt.nz

 John Key (Prime Minister)

• Blog: http://johnkey.co.nz/
• Twitter: http://twitter.com/johnkeypm
• Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/John-Key/
• RSS Feed: http://www.johnkey.co.nz/feeds/rss 

  National Party:

• Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nznationalparty/
• Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/nationalparty 
• Wiki: Government 2.0 – Best Practices
• Wiki Tags: social media, government, government 2.0, best practices, lessons learned, web 2.0, gov20, marketing, communications, new media

Websites: (Official NZ Government Websites)

• http://newzealand.govt.nz/ (Nicely Web2.0)
• New Zealand Companies Office
• Personal Property Securities Register
• Business.govt.nz Portal
• National Library of New Zealand
• NZ Historydotnet
• Ministry for Culture and Heritage – NZLive
• Ministry for Culture and Heritage – Te Ara
• NZ on Air
• NZ2011.govt.nz

Civil Servants:

• Sam Farrow (Inland Revenue)
  Twitter: samfarrow 
• Sara Barham (State Services Commission)
  Twitter: sarabeee 
• Yenping Yeo (State Services Commission)
  Twitter: variasian 
  Blog: blog.e.govt.nz/index.php/author/yenping-yeo/
• Jason Ryan (State Services Commission)
  Twitter: jasonwryan 
  Blog: blog.e.govt.nz/index.php/author/jason-ryan/
  Blog: psnetwork.org.nz/blog
• Matt Lane (State Services Commission)
  Twitter: mattlane 
  Blog: blog.e.govt.nz/index.php/author/mattlane/
• Mark Leicester

(State Services Commission)
Twitter: MarkLeicester 
Blog: blog.e.govt.nz/index.php/author/mark-leicester/

• Anne Nelson (Ministry of Education)
  Twitter: anne_nz 
• Terrence Wood (Archives New Zealand)
  Twitter: terrencewood 
• Mia Judkins (Creative New Zealand)
  Twitter: _june 
• Ellen Fitzsimons (Parliamentary Service)
  Twitter: Cle0patra 
• Jo Orange (Ministry of Education)
  Twitter: jo9ty 
• Jeremy Dickson (Ministry of Economic Development)
  Twitter: jeremydickson 
  LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremydickson
  
• Jamie Mackay (Ministry for Culture and Heritage)
  Twitter: jamiemackay and NZhistorydotnet 
• Nathan Wall (Inland Revenue)
  Twitter: _Nathan_W_ 
  LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/nathanwall

Feeds (Unofficial government feeds)

• They Work For You (What reps are doing in Govt)
  Twitter: _Nathan_W_ 
  Website: http://theyworkforyou.co.nz/
• NZ Govt Feeds (ALL the feeds from NZ Government agencies)

Twitter: NZGovtFeeds
Website: http://sites.google.com/site/nzgovtfeeds/

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