Archive for December, 2008
Mission creeping into 2009
Predictions abound for digital media in 2009 (even in the government space) and I’m excited to see what the year will bring.
It’s also a good time to reflect on personal highlights of the year just ended and hopes for the one ahead. So for my first new year as a blogger I hope you’ll permit me the [...]
Definitive list of commercial listening tools
Mashable has this list of the top ten reputation tracking tools worth paying for.
Re-blogged here for those who enjoyed my four methods and 40 tools for doing the same thing for free.
Beware of the chickens…
Those of you who read this blog because of my work managing government websites and my related writings about digital media stuff may be in for a bit of a surprise.
…I am going to start writing about my pet chickens.
I intended to do so sooner, but am only now getting around to it.
And it’s one [...]
Don’t cross the streams
Spengler: There’s something very important I forgot to tell you.
Venkman: What?
Spengler: Don’t cross the streams.
Venkman: Why?
Spengler: It would be bad.
My wife is a writer. A blog that she reads regularly, Scriptuality, has come to an end. It was written by Paul Campbell, a man trying to make it in TV scriptwriting. [...]
Look what I found: 2 December to 12 December
Look what I found interesting. Maybe you will too.
Rebranding Government 2.0 – Mashable seeks a better term, but for me this misses the point: which is that it’s about participation by whatever means, not just social technology
A Chronology of Brands that Got Punk’d by Social Media – Because bad case studies are even more useful [...]
See Emma
Just a quicky to highlight the interesting discussions over on Emma’s blog about web rationalisation and online consultation. Go!
UKgovweb joins the GovTwit directory, prompts rant…
Bearing Point has been busy compiling a list of Government Twitter users in the States – and has now expanded it to include us Brits.
While our own Dave Briggs of course has the definitive guide to the UK Gov web Twitterverse, this GovTwit directory is a great resource to find like minds across the pond [...]
More deliciousness and a blog cliché apology
I promised myself never to allow two auto-generated Delicious link posts in a row.
But I am too busy with a thing (a thing I will reveal later, or never, depending on the outcome of the thing – hmm, I wonder what that thing could be?) to blog properly and therefore please accept this edited auto-Delicious [...]
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. 
