Archive for August, 2008
How to be an interesting civil service blogger (and not get fired)
Starting up your own personal blog is dead easy. Unless you’re a civil servant and want to talk about your work.
If you are, then you face this choice: play it safe and say nothing interesting ever, or do some homework to learn where the boundaries lie. As ‘Mr Newest Blogging Civil Servant UK’, I’ve been [...]
Mrs Neil on Radio 4 this Saturday
Obviously I think she’s choice all year round, but the Radio Times has picked my wife’s play as “Radio Choice” this Saturday (2.30pm).
It’s the latest in a series of dramatisations of non-Poirot/Marple Agatha Christie novels for Radio 4, this one being Endless Night (this link contains spoilers).
The RT says:
“If it’s a drama based upon an [...]
Embedding digital media: lessons from my father-in-law
My dad-in-law Geoff got a digital camera for his birthday last week. He didn’t ask for it. He probably didn’t want it. He does now.
Having resisted all suggestions to ‘go digital’ for years, I’m pretty sure Geoff would happily have gone on with his 36 frames, 35 millimetres and 24-hour wait for a lucky dip [...]
Blog action day
Via Dave Briggs and Tom Watson, I’ve stumbledupon blog action day 2008.
Thanks guys, now I’ll have to think of something to think about poverty. In only 59 days. Suggestions welcome! (I think it’s a bad thing, generally).
Here’s a video.
Blog Action Day 2008 Poverty from Blog Action Day on Vimeo.
Want to work for me? I need a part time assistant web manager
There is a gap in my team for a part time assistant web manager, 3 days per week.
Please spread the word to anyone (good!) who might be interested. The job ad is available here:
On the GCN site
On PR job shop
We’re one of the busiest web teams in Whitehall, managing the website and intranet for this [...]
Everything in moderation… including senses of humour?
What’s the biggest problem with user-generated content? The users.
Well not always, admittedly. But over at listopia.co.uk Mr Log and I have already got this problem. Last week, while the site was still very much in beta and only very softly launched, we celebrated our 100th registered user (via the medium of a gmail conversation, much [...]
Spoils from my tinyholding
Not a bad crop from my garden plot today:
We got your eggs, we got your beets, yer luvverly carrots, a pair o’courgettes (not as big as Laurie’s – oo-er missus), some disappointingly small onions, a few cherry tomatoes, we got your crispy fresh runners, and 3 green chillies (which are going straight to wok later [...]
The NSFW presentation
Now here’s a curious thing. The best set of slides you may ever see to persuade serious people in your office why the social web is important, and it’s not safe for work.
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For a less sweary option, see Dave Briggs.
Hello, I'm Neil Williams. I'm a government web geek, a dad, a husband, a grower of veg, a keeper of hens and a lapsed comedy writer, roughly in that order. 
