What I think of Andrew Stott, the new Director of Digital Engagement
It turns out I was right. The new Director of Digital Engagement is someone I already kinda know. I’ve met been in the same room as Andrew Stott twice. Once at the most recent government Heads of e-Communications group meeting (next week I will attend my first of these as an actual head of e-comms) [...]
The UK government on Twitter
Dave Cole has done something that was crying out to be done. He has taken all of the (hard to find) RSS feeds for government press releases from COI’s News Distribution Service and piped them into Twitter accounts. Nice. To my mind though there’s no substitute for a proper, human-edited Twitter account and so I [...]
In The Loop: ever get the feeling you were being followed?
Armando Iannucci’s new film, In The Loop, is out on 17 April and promises, no doubt, to be a bitingly funny satire on British politics and communications. There. With that opening sentence and video I have done exactly what the PR company wants me and other bloggers to do as a result of their social [...]
It just goes to show you can’t be too careful!
I sort of agree with David Mitchell’s hilarious take on government seeking online feedback (hat tip: Kerry McCarthy) – at least where that feedback is sought on public services or ‘election issues’ like tax, transport and Clarkson. The low barrier to entry when commenting online does mean you get more than your fair share of [...]
Found/interesting: 1-8 March
Update: Simon has written up his work on the BERR and DFID Commentariat sites here. Look what I found interesting (including a little something I made earlier…) Low Carbon Industrial Strategy: A Vision and Eliminating World Poverty – these two new Commentariat-powered interactive publications went live near-simultaneously, making three outings in total across Whitehall for [...]
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. 
