Fantasy CMS for government

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The good doctor’s brilliant piece on the tyranny of content management systems has spurred me on to write this post I’ve been contemplating for a while, about my own frustrations with WCMS software and what an ideal platform for government websites might be capable of right out of the box.
Having been close to the requirements [...]


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 [...]


Found/interesting: 31 Dec to 6 Jan

I found this stuff interesting while browsing around.
Maybe you will too.

How boring: Celebrities sign up to Twitter to reveal the most mundane aspect of their lives - a balanced view from the Mail.
Twittering on: How internet ‘micro-blogging’ went global – A more thoughtful piece on Twitter including the Israeli consulate’s use of it for PR firefighting. Interesting [...]


Look what I found: 2 December to 12 December

Look what I found interesting. Maybe you will too.

Rebranding Government 2.0 – Mashable seeks a better term, but for me this misses the point: which is that it’s about participation by whatever means, not just social technology
A Chronology of Brands that Got Punk’d by Social Media – Because bad case studies are even more useful [...]


More deliciousness and a blog cliché apology

I promised myself never to allow two auto-generated Delicious link posts in a row.
But I am too busy with a thing (a thing I will reveal later, or never, depending on the outcome of the thing – hmm, I wonder what that thing could be?) to blog properly and therefore please accept this edited auto-Delicious [...]