Corporate Twitter (cartoon)
Familiar?
Source. Via Spaghetti Testing.
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 [...]
What’s on my iPhone? (Or: Appy new year)
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(This is a lazier than usual post for a lazy New Year’s Day. Normal service will resume when the year is in full swing…)
I don’t know about you, but I can’t so much as glance at someone else’s iPhone without wanting to grab it and have a nose at what applications they’ve installed. So for [...]
Found/interesting: 9 Nov to 24 Dec
I haven’t done one of these bookmark posts in a while, and I’m some way off posting anything new here. So here’s a look at what I found interesting enough to bookmark recently.
The state of the UK gov blogosphere – Great post by Dave Briggs.
Why websites matter less and less – “Summary: Our audiences will [...]
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 [...]
Found/interesting: 11 October
A few hand-picked bookmarks.
The wraps come off data.gov.uk! – Harry Metcalfe posted this exclusive preview of data.gov.uk – the UK government’s free open data store, currently in private beta.
Teach us a Lesson – Crowdsourcing the directory of learning – BIS and Becta competition seeking ideas to create a user-friendly national index of informal adult learning [...]
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 [...]
Twitter police stop traffic
I was involved a short exchange of tweets last weekend about the Department for Transport’s debut appearance on Twitter.
It began like this:
Me: Congrats to the @transportgovuk gang for taking the Twitter plunge
theimp67: @neillyneil Really? Bio for @transportgovuk says “Please direct queries via the ‘Contact us’ section of the website.” #fail
For those not familiar with [...]
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. 
