New kids on the blog
There are three great new blogs from UK digital government folk which I urge you to check out, if you haven’t already.
- Digigov. COI’s digital policy team has always been pretty good at consulting others on the guidance and governance documents it produces for public sector websites, but mostly behind closed doors …until recently. Having first dipped their toes in the stream of wider public interest with a Twitter account and online consultation on website costs and quality measures, the team has now launched an official blog. And from the inaugural post, it looks very promising indeed. Considered alongside the Digital Engagement blog this signals an impressive, institutional level of commitment from gov webbies to transparent and open conversation about how government should be using the web to best effect, now and in the future.
- Julia Chandler. On a more personal level, I’m especially chuffed to see this personal blog from another gov webby. Julia has been doing some ground-breaking work at DFID (example here) and promises to be as interesting a voice online as she is over coffee. In her own words: “you might find a post containing links to good tools for enthusing people about web 2.0 or writing a digital strategy, next to one on environmental news or castles. Oh yes, and I still love libraries!”
- John Suffolk. Government CIO. Blogging, brilliantly. Steph and Jeremy have written better reviews than I can. I’ll merely add that if it’s true being a good blogger is 50% about reading and commenting on other people’s blogs, then the comments John posted in reply to Jeremy’s post would seem to suggest he qualifies.
This flurry of blogging activity comes while I’ve been in my first proper blogging slump, almost exactly a year after I started. Blame the holidays or the pressure of success, but either way I’m hoping to be over it soon…!
Image remixed from wallpaper from the official NKOTB blog. (I’m as surprised as you are).
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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. 
Nice round up. Good point about John – brilliant that he is blogging, but much better that he is interacting and getting fully stuck in. Re: slump, panic not. I’ve been in one of those since I started.