Reflections on a barcamp: turning the conversation into action after ukgc09
Saturday’s second annual government web barcamp was an amazing day for networking, sharing war stories, launching initiatives and swapping notes – all crucial activities for the small (and increasingly close) family of digital innovators in the government web space, and something we must all do more of. But for all the impassioned talk of what [...]
Transforming online government: thoughts about the Federal Web Managers Council white paper
The heads of web in US government agencies have produced this 3-page white paper for Obama’s transition team, campaigning for radical transformation of the gov web estate. Or in their words, to “build on the groundswell of citizen participation in the presidential campaign and make people’s everyday interactions with their government easier and more transparent.” [...]
See Emma
Just a quicky to highlight the interesting discussions over on Emma’s blog about web rationalisation and online consultation. Go!
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 [...]
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. 
