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		<title>Not not blogging</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not not blogging, I&#8217;m just not blogging here. In the highly unlikely event that you&#8217;re a subscriber to this blog and not to the Government Digital Service blog, here are three posts I recently wrote there and neglected to cross-post here: Government corporate websites in eye-popping 3D Why do people need government department websites? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://neilojwilliams.net/missioncreep/2011/not-not-blogging/</link>
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		<title>Alphagov fanboy turns Betagov infiltrator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From tomorrow, I&#8217;ll be joining Cabinet Office to help take the alpha.gov.uk prototype forward to its next incarnation as a more fully developed public beta. In the spirit of the tagline of this blog, I&#8217;ll be splitting my time straight down the middle between my (awesomely generous and forward-thinking) employer BIS and the very different [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://neilojwilliams.net/missioncreep/2011/alphagov-fanboy-turns-betagov-infiltrator/</link>
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		<title>Guest post on alpha.gov.uk&#8217;s vision for online consultation and policy engagement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Go there, read it.]]></description>
		<link>http://neilojwilliams.net/missioncreep/2011/guest-post-on-alpha-gov-uks-vision-for-online-consultation-and-policy-engagement/</link>
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		<title>The BIS blog. Why were we waiting?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Somewhere in my attic, buried under all the baby toys and junk, there’s a signed letter from David Miliband thanking me for building his blog. It was the first one by a Cabinet Minister, started on his own initiative at the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, managed by me under the wing of Edward [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://neilojwilliams.net/missioncreep/2011/the-bis-blog-why-were-we-waiting/</link>
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		<title>If you started today, you would never build what we’ve got. You would build Alphagov.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We’re mere days away from the big reveal of Alphagov, the prototype ‘single domain&#8217; website which will set a challenging vision of what a unified, user-focused front end to UK government could look like. I’ve been relatively close to the project, from unofficial chats with project lead Tom Loosemore and others in dingy Lambeth North [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://neilojwilliams.net/missioncreep/2011/alphagov/</link>
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		<title>Guest post: Defining digital skills for government communicators</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by Tony Plant, professional development manager at the Ministry of Justice, who has been leading work across Whitehall to update the digital  skills profile for government communicators. Cross-posted on Tony&#8217;s own blog at The Learning Crowd. Government communications is radically changing, as shown by the COI review and shift to digital channels. Job roles [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://neilojwilliams.net/missioncreep/2011/guest-post-defining-digital-skills-for-government-communicators/</link>
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		<title>Experiments in shared website services</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two more sites just began sharing the BIS web platform – the National Measurement Office and the newly christened UK Space Agency &#8211; bringing our tally of live sites on the platform up to eight, and moving us one step closer to a single domain for BIS. With eight sites now sharing our platform and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://neilojwilliams.net/missioncreep/2011/experiments-in-shared-website-services/</link>
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		<title>BIS digital team launches blog for Simon Hughes on WordPress.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, we pressed the publish button on a new blog to support Simon Hughes&#8217;s engagement with young people and others in his role as Advocate for Access to Education. It&#8217;s an independent, advisory role spanning DfE and BIS policy &#8211; hence the independent.gov.uk domain and HMG branding. More about the role from the site&#8217;s About page: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://neilojwilliams.net/missioncreep/2011/bis-digital-team-launches-blog-for-simon-hughes-on-wordpress-com/</link>
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		<title>Bis.gov.uk is Sitecore Site of the Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m used to coming second. At school, I was deputy head boy. In my career, I&#8217;ve been second in command more often than I&#8217;ve been in charge. And recently, my team was nominated for an internal award for innovation &#8211; and were first runners up. But I can&#8217;t remember the last time I actually won something. So I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://neilojwilliams.net/missioncreep/2010/bis-gov-uk-is-sitecore-site-of-the-year/</link>
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		<title>Sharing the digital knowhow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is just a short post, mainly to point you over here to Ross Ferguson&#8217;s generous review of a little something my team launched recently on the QT. It&#8217;s a side-project we&#8217;re calling digital@bis &#8211; a place to share tips, policies and best practice with other web professionals (mainly those in BIS&#8217;s arms length organisations), [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://neilojwilliams.net/missioncreep/2010/sharing-the-digital-knowhow/</link>
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		<title>Profoundly non-trivial: Martha Lane Fox review of Directgov</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A big day today in digital government. In case you missed it, the Martha Lane Fox review of Directgov and the wider government web estate went public  along with a response from Cabinet secretary Francis Maude, so ending a period of furtive speculation by those with a keen interest in the way UK government does [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://neilojwilliams.net/missioncreep/2010/profoundly-non-trivial-martha-lane-fox-review-of-directgov/</link>
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		<title>More on Disqus and accessibility</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of months ago I posted in praise of cheap-as-chips comment engines Echo and Disqus &#8211; then followed up pointing out some of the potential downsides. Chief among them was accessibility, and I promised to share the results of an audit commissioned by BIS. Those results are now in, available on Scribd, and are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://neilojwilliams.net/missioncreep/2010/more-on-disqus-and-accessibility/</link>
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		<title>Making public data pretty with custom CSS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve alluded a few times on this blog to the exceptional flexibility we&#8217;ve built into our shared website platform at BIS. It&#8217;s something I&#8217;m fiercely proud of and which bears repeating &#8211; and in that spirit I thought I&#8217;d share the latest example: the new BIS data store which went live on Friday alongside this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://neilojwilliams.net/missioncreep/2010/making-public-data-pretty-with-custom-css/</link>
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		<title>How do you converge yours?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Warning. This post contains gratuitous before and after shots of website convergence] There&#8217;s more to closing down legacy websites than just assimilating them Borg-style into your main web platform using homogenous, corporate-branded templates. While that is one of the options, it&#8217;s at one end of a spectrum which can have many nuanced approaches between that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://neilojwilliams.net/missioncreep/2010/how-do-you-converge-yours/</link>
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		<title>Embedding third party code: the downsides</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I thought I should quickly acknowledge a few responses I&#8217;ve had to my previous post on using 3rd party plugins like Disqus and Echo, pointing out some of the downsides. As well as this comment from Simon I&#8217;ve had two emails politely highlighting issues which &#8211; though nowhere near outweighing the benefits in my view [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://neilojwilliams.net/missioncreep/2010/embedding-third-party-code-the-downsides/</link>
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