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 [...]
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 [...]
The UK government on Twitter
Dave Cole has done something that was crying out to be done. He has taken all of the (hard to find) RSS feeds for government press releases from COI’s News Distribution Service and piped them into Twitter accounts. Nice. To my mind though there’s no substitute for a proper, human-edited Twitter account and so I [...]
Found/interesting: 22 March to 11 April
Look what I found interesting. Twitter-related: 15 Fascinating Ways to Track Twitter Trends – Twitter listening and trending tools c/o Mashable; Twattering – Banal and insipid tweets get the Speak Your Branes treatment. Hat tip Ross; Governments Experimenting With Twitter – Canadian government Twitter use on the increase – and some useful thoughts (some of [...]
Going Pro: what web applications have you paid for, and why?
With the endless speculation about Twitter‘s monetisation plans and ample indications that most Twitter users *would* be willing to pay some hard-earned cash for their continued use of the service, I thought it might be interesting to take a look at what web applications people currently pay for. For my part, it has to be [...]
In The Loop: ever get the feeling you were being followed?
Armando Iannucci’s new film, In The Loop, is out on 17 April and promises, no doubt, to be a bitingly funny satire on British politics and communications. There. With that opening sentence and video I have done exactly what the PR company wants me and other bloggers to do as a result of their social [...]
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 [...]
Grumpy old media
She wasn’t the first, and she certainly won’t be the last, but Rachel Sylvester’s Twitter-bashing editorial in today’s Times is surely the absolute worst thus far of the recent old media knee-jerk reactions to the use of Twitter by government and politicians. Not only is her microblogophobia out of step with her own paper, which [...]
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. 
