Found/interesting: 28 Dec to 5 Feb
Look what I found interesting:
Why I’m going dark for purdah – Steph explains why he won’t be blogging during the election period. (I won’t be writing about work stuff during that time either for the same reasons, but intend to resume blogging about other interests and this could be a good time to do it).
Richard [...]
Found/interesting: 11 October
A few hand-picked bookmarks.
The wraps come off data.gov.uk! – Harry Metcalfe posted this exclusive preview of data.gov.uk – the UK government’s free open data store, currently in private beta.
Teach us a Lesson – Crowdsourcing the directory of learning – BIS and Becta competition seeking ideas to create a user-friendly national index of informal adult learning [...]
Found/interesting: 16 August
I’m on holiday, this is as much as you’re gonna get right now…!
PortableApps.com – Portable software for USB drives
Coolest power tools of some top geeks
10 kickass crowdsourcing sites for your business
Social Networking on Intranets (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)
Twitter 101 — Download the slides & print the guide
Digital diplomacy website – FCO digital team’s knowledge hub
MP asks [...]
Twitter police stop traffic
I was involved a short exchange of tweets last weekend about the Department for Transport’s debut appearance on Twitter.
It began like this:
Me: Congrats to the @transportgovuk gang for taking the Twitter plunge
theimp67: @neillyneil Really? Bio for @transportgovuk says “Please direct queries via the ‘Contact us’ section of the website.” #fail
For those not familiar with [...]
Found/interesting: 17 May to 2 June
Look what I found interesting.
Crisis Communications for the Social Media Age – Also works as a guide to rebuttal 2.0
Swine Flu 2.0 : A Case For How Managing Social Media is a Matter of National Security – …and here’s a real-life case study from Ross Ferguson et al’s trans-Atlantic cousins
Twitter’s hype is different than Second [...]
If your IT dept blocks access to social media sites…
…it’s not because of security, it’s because they don’t trust you.
So go see Steph and run his test tool.
Found/interesting: 15-19 Jan
A quick link dump.
Digital Britain Report: what it means for UK online business media | TV waits to see a preview of its new world| TV giveaway to fund high-speed internet – anticipation of this week’s Digital Britain report.
“The goats … are breeding.” – Thoughtful piece on the growing number of unelected ministers, prompted by [...]
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 [...]
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. 
