What to bring to BarcampUKGovweb09
There’s never been a more exciting time to work in digital media in government. So I’m making damn sure I’m at the second UK gov web barcamp on 31 January 2009.
The first one was a big success by all accounts, and I am gutted I missed it. There’s lots of great coverage on the day’s pageflakes page which I’ll be sure to look through in preparation.
I have a few things I’d be up for talking about. Do let me know which, if any, you would be interested in hearing about or helping with.
- My experiences of setting up and running a corporate gov dept Twitter channel, and the issues around that – like this one
- The merits or otherwise of integrating an enterprise social media platform into your web and intranet sites, which is what we have done at my place (I think uniquely in UK government?)
- Driving up the adoption of social media tools internally on a staff intranet: what has worked well, what less so. Or, specifically on one bit that has gone really well: running webchats between staff and ministers/directors on an intranet
- The structure, roles and skills of a 21st century government digital media team: how I have divided the work up at my department, and opening it up to hear from others
In terms of what I’m hoping to get from the day, I’d love to hear about what people think the future holds for the big CMS in the government web landscape, in particular how No 10 are getting on with their Wordpress approach (and whether that’s scalable to other departments). And lots and lots of good stuff about strategies for digital channels in the web 2.0 world.
Other ‘campers who have blogged this already:
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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. 
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