Love or hate the Communities and Local Government website?
We want to know either way via our survey, launched today. It’s just over a year since my e-comms team (incidentally, the best team of webbies in Whitehall*) and I relaunched the Communities and Local Government website. We applied the principles of user-centred design back then, and we’re checking what the users think again now. [...]
How to be an interesting civil service blogger (and not get fired)
Starting up your own personal blog is dead easy. Unless you’re a civil servant and want to talk about your work. If you are, then you face this choice: play it safe and say nothing interesting ever, or do some homework to learn where the boundaries lie. As ‘Mr Newest Blogging Civil Servant UK’, I’ve [...]
Putting my mouth where my money is
So here’s wordpress blog #3,714,201, which makes me extremely late to this party and probably a bit unwelcome. But I did briefly drop in earlier (c. 4 years ago), and have not come back empty-handed. I am back because I want to… Put my mouth where my money is. A big part of my day [...]
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. 
