Found/interesting: 6-14 Jan
Have a load of links on me.
- Blimey @joswinson thanks @tom_watson – Simon Dickson notes a first as Parliamentary business spills over onto Twitter.
- CivicSurf » DFID Blog Coaching – The DFID bloggers experiment is proving its value, and growing.
- The 5 stages of Twitter acceptance – Denial > microblogging. I think I’m on the return path now, wavering somewhere between conversing and dumping.
- MuniGov 2.0 - “A coalition of [American] local/municipal governments focused on exploring the use and principles of Web 2.0 in an effort to improve citizen services and communication via technology”.
- A Collection of Social Network Stats for 2009 – For those who like numbers: 150 million people around the world are now actively using Facebook and almost half of them are using Facebook every day.
- 49 amazing social media, Web 2.0 and Internet stats – For those who *really* like numbers, like a LOT.
- Top 5 Internet Priorities for the Next Government (any next Government) – “The most scary thing about the Internet for your government is not pedophiles, terrorists or viruses, whatever you may have read in the papers. It is the danger of your administration being silently obsoleted by the lightening pace at which the Internet changes expectations”. Tom Steinberg tells it how it isn’t, but should be.
- TweetMinster – Tweeting MP league table and aggregator. Nice.
- The YouTube Government: Why Is YouTube Getting Preferential Treatment? – A bugbear of mine too. While it makes sense to go where the numbers are, governments should be careful in their selection of social websites to avoid any perceived (unintentioned) conflict of interest or anti-competitiveness.
- RIP Enterprise RSS – Interesting piece from RWW on the ill fate of enterprise RSS software houses. Although I disagree that enterprise software trumps personal reader accounts like Greader/Bloglines, I do think all organisations need to be looking at an enterprise approach to *education* about RSS. It’s been criminally under-used in every place I’ve worked.
- WhosTalkin? – Another social media search tool. Not quite as good as the Social Media Firehose but great for quick searches.
- Good practice with URLs – A round-up of why managing URLs is not just about avoiding broken links.
- My Three Rules of Blogging – Refreshing.
- Let’s go over this again, shall we? – Hilarious.
- ProtoShare /Axure – Cool web apps for designing wireframes and other diagrams.
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@Michael I use Twitter a whole lot less than I’d like to, but when I do use it it’s a mixture of crowd-sourcing, conversation, broadcast and promotion of my better blog posts. I have been the worst of Twitter users at times: with auto-follow, auto-reply DM, and twitter tools to auto-tweet new blog posts but am conscious of the best practice and have cut back on that now. At best, I have met new twitter contacts face to face. It’s a powerful networking tool.
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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. 
Cheers for the mention Neil, glad you found it useful. I’d like to think I’m a bit of most of the stages.. I like to converse, share, learn, all rolled in to one! Yourself?