Under construction: behind the scenes of a government website (soft) launch
Website launches aren’t what they used to be. Back in the day, the birth or re-birth of a website would be heralded with a big ‘welcome’ story on the homepage, a press release, a section gushing about its new and improved features (probably none of which anyone had said they wanted) and – if you [...]
Fantasy CMS for government
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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. 
