Found/interesting: 15 October to 7 November
Look what I found interesting enough to bookmark recently:
BBC Democracy Live – Nifty live political TV and news thingummy via Simon Dickson.
JobFact – community of anonymous employees – Compare your salary anonymously.
Optimal Workshop – online card sorting tool – Fantastic and free online IA toys.
Cybersoc.com: guide to using social media (in 6500 words) – Headshift [...]
Government 2010: the gist
You could easily spend your whole time at e-comms events, hearing the same speakers say similar things to the same people. They’re two a penny, and it’s hard to know which will be the good ones.
But as others observed and the Twitter buzz testifies, today’s Government 2010 shindig was a best of breed conference about [...]
Social media job interview questions
I recently recruited someone to work exclusively on social media.
It’s a shiny new post of a kind as yet still rare in government (I can only name three others) and a bit different from any vacancy I’ve recruited into before. So my (t)rusty set of interview questions for website managers just wasn’t going to cut [...]
Found/interesting: 9-20 March
Look what I found interesting.
Working Together – Crime maps, schools comparison engines – it’s all go in the world of digital government. Good to see RSA using Australia’s favourite OSS CMS as the online response channel for this consultation.
Tweeting for twouble – 12 good men and true …oh and all those Twitter users too. Big [...]
Your mission, should you choose to accept it…
…is highly ambitious, if not impossible, Mr or Ms imminent Director of Digital Engagement.
Your job description – indeed this new job – is unquestionably the most exciting thing I’ve read and digitally engaged with since the last unbelievably exciting thing, in that it says:
Within six months the Head of Digital Engagement will have developed a [...]

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. 