Archive for May, 2009
Social media job interview questions
I recently recruited someone to work exclusively on social media.
It’s a shiny new post of a kind as yet still rare in government (I can only name three others) and a bit different from any vacancy I’ve recruited into before. So my (t)rusty set of interview questions for website managers just wasn’t going to cut [...]
Found Nemo
My son found him today in the aquarium at the Horniman and he hasn’t even seen the film.
Found/interesting: 11 April to 16 May
A near-random selection of stuff I’ve found interesting lately.
Us Now : watch the film -like it says.
I Can Haz Writin Skillz? – Internet-Age Writing Syllabus and Course Overview. – HFACTDEWARIUCSMNUWKIASLAMB.
WordPress in UK government: an informal audit – and very soon, blogs on the BERR intranet too.
5 Very Weird URL Shorteners -variety is the spi.ce [...]
News you can trust – the social media way
Just a quickie to highlight two related posts on social media approaches to the traditional news release.
Michelle of FutureGov has highlighted a great example from Defra where the standard press notice went out with a companion blog post.
Meanwhile Steph of DIUS has written up his and his colleagues’ experiences of trying to weave digital engagement [...]
What I think of Andrew Stott, the new Director of Digital Engagement
It turns out I was right. The new Director of Digital Engagement is someone I already kinda know.
I’ve met been in the same room as Andrew Stott twice.
Once at the most recent government Heads of e-Communications group meeting (next week I will attend my first of these as an actual head of e-comms) where [...]
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. 
