Found/interesting: 28 Dec to 5 Feb
Look what I found interesting:
Why I’m going dark for purdah – Steph explains why he won’t be blogging during the election period. (I won’t be writing about work stuff during that time either for the same reasons, but intend to resume blogging about other interests and this could be a good time to do it).
Richard [...]
Teacamp this Thursday
Just a reminder that there’s a Teacamp this Thursday at 4pm for anyone interested in networking with the Govwebbies.
As usual it’s at Cafe Zest, upstairs in House of Fraser on Victoria Street.
This promises to be a good ‘un including a run-through by Jenny from MoJ on the great stuff they’ve been doing using RSS readers [...]
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 [...]
Definitive list of commercial listening tools
Mashable has this list of the top ten reputation tracking tools worth paying for.
Re-blogged here for those who enjoyed my four methods and 40 tools for doing the same thing for free.
Four methods and 40 free tools for listening… continued
There are hundreds of tools you *could* use to monitor social media sites for discussions about your stuff. So how do you choose?
In this and a previous post, I’ve rounded up 40 of the best free tools, and suggested that, despite the bewildering choice, there are only four ways of putting those tools together in [...]
Four methods and 40 free tools for listening to online conversations
All the digital media practitioners agree: listening is the starting point of any plan to harness the power of the social web.
It’s how you locate the people who are already talking online about your stuff, and how you figure out the best ways to talk to them. (And, in my experience, it’s how you get [...]
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. 
