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Comment on The new social media guidance for civil servants by Tim Lloyd

Tim Lloyd — Sun, 20 May 2012 12:56:27 +0000

Nice write-up Matt. I tend to agree with you about the IT section. It certainly triggered some slightly off piste feedback at BIS, with people assuming the whole document was aimed more at fixing IT issues.
I tend to find this detracts from the overall message and sends conversations off on a tangent.

Comment on The new social media guidance for civil servants by vicky sargent (@vickysargent)

vicky sargent (@vickysargent) — Sun, 20 May 2012 08:20:45 +0000

Based on my experience with Socitm in researching social media use in local government, I think including the guidance for IT decision-makers with the rest is inspired. IT managers’ default setting on social media in local government has been to block it. A document like this, in which the top dogs say to all parties involved ‘yes there are risks, but the value is even greater, and here’s how to fix things’ will be really helpful. IT managers will no longer be able to use security or technical obstacles to fob off staff who want to use social media and management who think it might be a good idea but need also to manage risk.

Comment on On being open.. by Jukesie

Jukesie — Fri, 11 May 2012 17:00:00 +0000

I totally agree re the top-level buy-in – I think that and actually having money has made a huge difference – but I wonder if the fact that that has happened means more senior managers will get on board as it is being supported *so* publicly?

I have already read that post from your team – and shared it around a few people at the Research Councils

Comment on On being open.. by Phil Wilson

Phil Wilson — Fri, 11 May 2012 15:25:50 +0000

Having the public backing of a government document and spokesperson (MLF) really helps them. I think more teams would be more transparent if they knew they had some top-level buy-in for their actions, to help justify to others why some things happened and others didn’t. Take a look at the activities we’re involved in *other* than standard content management, planning and writing: http://blogs.bath.ac.uk/webservices/2012/05/11/beyond-the-website-what-do-we-do-in-2012/

Comment on Gov:West thoughts by On being open.. | Digital by Default

On being open.. | Digital by Default — Fri, 11 May 2012 14:17:54 +0000

[...] The idea of blogging as ‘open practice’ is reasonably well established (I think?) and in HE there are some teams who do a brilliant job of this (I am regularly in debt to posts from the Edge Hill and Bath web teams) and the more of this that happens the better for everyone [I think]. The GOVUK team have taken this much further though – blogging pretty much all their thinking even at early stages, using Github to share code (and more), even having an open to the public Pivotal Tracker project backlog (pretty much completed now..) and speaking at all sorts of events big and small (including GovWest!). [...]

Comment on Unicorns and Universities: Bathcamp 31 by JP

JP — Fri, 04 May 2012 09:00:20 +0000

Fairplay – didn’t get the ref BTW – thanks for a great summarisation of what was a really good night.

Comment on Unicorns and Universities: Bathcamp 31 by Jukesie

Jukesie — Fri, 04 May 2012 08:40:51 +0000

Its a Soccer AM joke – my blog, my humor

Comment on Unicorns and Universities: Bathcamp 31 by JP

JP — Fri, 04 May 2012 08:37:38 +0000

Ballmouth University?? Sounds like a Lovehoney training establishment. I think Rich was at Bournemouth University.

Comment on Contemplating a content migration plan B by icerunner

icerunner — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:28:41 +0000

Matt, looks like an interesting tool. Offer still stands if it doesn’t do what you want.

Comment on Contemplating a content migration plan B by Jukesie

Jukesie — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:17:20 +0000

Cheers Phil – your project sounds pretty challenging as well! I am going to try DeepVacuum as suggested by Steph Gray – it seems to be wget based and I’ll see what it gives me.

Zak – I think I’ll end up with the banner style *and* the popup – we aren’t too worried about mobile browsers for most of this older content but we are worried about people not realising it is out of date or no longer supported (which doesn’t mean it won’t still be useful for a small % of our users.)