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 [...]
What I (nearly) said at Government 2010
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As trailed, here come the notes of my contribution to the discussion about e-consultation at Government 2010 last Thursday.
The session’s title was “Digital engagement is everyone’s job: formal and informal consultation online” and also on the panel were Harry Metcalfe (Dextrous Web), David Price (Debategraph) and Kate Davies from YouGov (ably replacing Tom Watson at [...]
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 [...]
Found/interesting: 11 April to 16 May
A near-random selection of stuff I’ve found interesting lately.
Us Now : watch the film -like it says.
I Can Haz Writin Skillz? – Internet-Age Writing Syllabus and Course Overview. – HFACTDEWARIUCSMNUWKIASLAMB.
WordPress in UK government: an informal audit – and very soon, blogs on the BERR intranet too.
5 Very Weird URL Shorteners -variety is the spi.ce [...]
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 [...]
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 online [...]
Don’t cross the streams
Spengler: There’s something very important I forgot to tell you.
Venkman: What?
Spengler: Don’t cross the streams.
Venkman: Why?
Spengler: It would be bad.
My wife is a writer. A blog that she reads regularly, Scriptuality, has come to an end. It was written by Paul Campbell, a man trying to make it in TV scriptwriting. [...]
See Emma
Just a quicky to highlight the interesting discussions over on Emma’s blog about web rationalisation and online consultation. Go!
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. 
