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• Government Twitter etiquette: talk but don’t follow My employer is one of a handful of UK government departments with corporate Twitter accounts. It was set up and is run by my team, with input from colleagues in press office, policy teams and ministers’ offices. It’s working out well for us and we’re keen to grow its reach. But how? We’re doing the obvious things: [...]
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  Posted on Nov 16.08 to Work   

• Never trust a thin chef… …nor a ‘blogging expert’ who doesn’t blog. Stephen Hale, by that rationale, is a man you can trust. He has started a blog about his work as Head of Engagement, Digital Diplomacy at the FCO. And he’s done it on the Department’s corporate blogging platform, which makes this something of a first among the UK gov [...]
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  Posted on Nov 13.08 to Work   

• Four methods and 40 free tools for listening… continued There are hundreds of tools you *could* use to monitor social media sites for discussions about your stuff. So how do you choose? In this and a previous post, I’ve rounded up 40 of the best free tools, and suggested that, despite the bewildering choice, there are only four ways of putting those tools together in [...]
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  Posted on Nov 09.08 to Work   

• Four methods and 40 free tools for listening to online conversations All the digital media practitioners agree: listening is the starting point of any plan to harness the power of the social web. It’s how you locate the people who are already talking online about your stuff, and how you figure out the best ways to talk to them. (And, in my experience, it’s how you get [...]
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  Posted on Nov 04.08 to Work   

• The cult of Getting Things Done: an introduction to GTD This is one of a series of posts on my mission to improve my productivity using Getting Things Done (GTD). Read the full series here. GTD and me When I started this blog, I chose the name Mission Creep because I have a lot of pride in my productivity (I am an efficient doer) and a tendency [...]
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  Posted on Oct 22.08 to Balance, Life, Work   

• Getting started with Getting Things Done (GTD) This is the introduction to a short series of posts about my mission to improve my productivity by applying the principles of Getting Things Done (GTD), David Allen’s self-help bible on workload management. An enormous amount has been written about GTD, and everyone’s implementation will vary. So in this series I will focus on what I [...]
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  Posted on Oct 20.08 to Balance, Life, Work