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A lot of my focus at work lately has been about how we publish to the web – who’s doing it, with what tools, and to what standard.
While the boss is focusing on what goes up when and how to make it more engaging, I’m mainly working on three things:
building the platform: merging two big [...]
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 [...]
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: 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 [...]
Beyond cut and paste: the professional skills every government web publisher should have
Control-A, Control-C, Control-V. Anyone can do that, right?
So we can give our web publishing work to a few junior staff, train them on the software (a nice little development opportunity, bless) and get them to just bung whatever we send them up on the site.
If you work in website management for a large organisation where [...]
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 [...]
Want my old job?
It’s up for grabs.
Advert is here if you’re a GCN member and here if you’re not.
It’s truly a great place to do digital communications work, with a capable and enthusiastic team of webbies, a pretty impressive array of digital channels and a deputy director of comms who gets it. I’ve loved every minute and whoever [...]
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 [...]
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. 
