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The new social media guidance for civil servants
On Thursday, in a blaze of RTs on Twitter, the Cabinet Office launched their first comprehensive Social media guidance for civil servants [PDF]. This has the potential to be a hugely important document in the wider uptake of social media throughout the public sector – especially at a senior level where managers remain a little…
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Thinking about the Inside Government alpha feedback
There is alot to love in the latest bout of extreme transparency blogging from the GOVUK team. Sharing the results of the feedback and user testing for the Inside Government product gives a real insight into the challenges they are facing and how they intend to front up to them. It also lets those of…
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On being open..
So once again I am running a session at this years IWMW based on a half-formed idea and a hastily written direct message to Brian. What the abstract fails to actually get across though is..well everything. I’m not planning on talking about open source, content, data really. What I want to talk about is the…
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Unicorns and Universities: Bathcamp 31
This months Bathcamp was a corker (well I can only speak for the 2/3 I was there for but the Twitter buzz suggests the final talk was great as well.) Lisa put together a great agenda and the large crowd put pay to any thoughts that a night about ‘content’ wasn’t geeky enough for Bathcamp!…
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Contemplating a content migration plan B
It is becoming more and more apparent that I might actually have to *do* something about this new website I have been talking about for about 18 months. The project to procure a CMS has some real momentum and for the first time probably I think it is going to happen this year. [No idea…