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| Visit www.hpb.gov.sg/podcasts
to subscribe to podcasting feeds for
free. You can listen to the podcasts
using your computer or transfer the
audio files to an MP3 player. |
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We are living in an era where pods are no longer
immediately associated with peas. As a fact, the latest
wave in the digital world is known as “podcasting”.
The Health Promotion Board (HPB) is riding on the wave
of podcasting to increase public reach and receptiveness
to its health-related messages.
A podcast is a Web feed of audio or video files placed
on the Internet for anyone to subscribe to. It is used
for downloading music and video clips.
Head of the Resource Development Department Richard Lim
explains: “Podcasting offers users the convenience
of listening to health programmes at their own time and
even while they are on the go. HPB aims to reach out to
Internet users through a medium that is fast gaining in
popularity.”
HPB’s intuition that podcasting could serve as a
convenient, novel way to provide health information and
reach out to the e-savvy population catapulted the idea
for a “health podcast”.
By subscribing to HPB’s podcasts, users need not
keep checking for new episodes on the website as the podcast
software will automatically download the latest ones.
Users also need not worry about missing episodes as the
podcast software usually archives all the episodes.
HPB’s first podcast featured 13 episodes of “Health
Talk with Nancy Sit”. Hosted by the Hong Kong celebrity,
the series covered female-related illnesses and other
general health topics like nutrition, osteoporosis and
depression. As of 20 February 2006, it has received over
3,700 hits.
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Upcoming
Talk by Public Service Centre
for Organisational Excellence |
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Guiding
Agencies Towards Innovation Excellence
Date: 17 March 2006 • Time:
2 pm – 5 pm • Venue:
Civil Service College |
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Public agencies are increasingly
recognising the importance of innovation
and, as a result, are embarking on a
journey to achieve innovation excellence.
In view of this, with the support of
the PS21 Office, PSCOE began a study
of five public agencies that have attained
the Singapore Innovation Class.
They are the Ministry of Finance Headquarters,
Health Sciences Authority, JTC Corporation,
Singapore Prison Service and PUB.
From the study and good practices of
these five agencies, PSCOE developed
an Innovation Roadmap. During the forum,
PSCOE will share how to translate innovation
programmes into actual results, as well
as shed light on approaches to sustain
and institutionalise innovation efforts
within an organisation. |
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Benchmarking
and Its Challenges: What
Went Wrong
Date: 22 March 2006 •
Time: 2 pm – 5 pm
• Venue: Civil Service
College |
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Most public
agencies claim to be engaged
in benchmarking activities,
but few have declared them
a success. This phenomenon
is also observed in the
private sector.
What really went wrong in
the course of benchmarking?
Was it a lack of focus?
Or adopting an approach
that was too rigid? Or having
no/a wrong benchmarking
peer or vague objectives?
Or was it simply a case
of a competitive comparison
exercise mistaken for benchmarking
activities?
Sign up for this session,
which will provide an excellent
platform for officers to
exchange their benchmarking
success stories and challenges
encountered. PSCOE will
also share its experience
in providing benchmarking
consultancy for the public
sector, and offer views
on how some of the challenges
can be circumvented or overcome. |
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| To register, call
Ms Olivia Lau at 6874 1712 or
email to cscollege_pscoe_events@cscollege.gov.sg.
For more upcoming events, visit
www.pscoe.gov.sg. |
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By
PS21 Office
Next: Get ready for S2006! |
