Found/interesting: 16 August
I’m on holiday, this is as much as you’re gonna get right now…!
PortableApps.com – Portable software for USB drives
Coolest power tools of some top geeks
10 kickass crowdsourcing sites for your business
Social Networking on Intranets (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)
Twitter 101 — Download the slides & print the guide
Digital diplomacy website – FCO digital team’s knowledge hub
MP asks [...]
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: 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 Steph’s elegantly [...]
Found/interesting: 6-14 Jan
Have a load of links on me.
Blimey @joswinson thanks @tom_watson – Simon Dickson notes a first as Parliamentary business spills over onto Twitter.
CivicSurf » DFID Blog Coaching – The DFID bloggers experiment is proving its value, and growing.
The 5 stages of Twitter acceptance – Denial > microblogging. I think I’m on the return path [...]
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 [...]
No jobs for senior Whitehall webbies?
So Jeremy Gould is leaving.
I’m personally gutted: Jeremy’s been something of an unofficial mentor for me lately and his faith in me has been one of the contributing factors to my starting blogging and stepping up a gear, not to mention a civil service grade, in the government web sphere.
And he’s been a pioneer. It’s [...]
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 [...]
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. 
