What I think of Andrew Stott, the new Director of Digital Engagement

It turns out I was right. The new Director of Digital Engagement is someone I already kinda know.
I’ve met been in the same room as Andrew Stott twice.
Once at the most recent government Heads of e-Communications group meeting (next week I will attend my first of these as an actual head of e-comms) where [...]


Transforming online government: thoughts about the Federal Web Managers Council white paper

The heads of web in US government agencies have produced this 3-page white paper for Obama’s transition team, campaigning for radical transformation of the gov web estate.
Or in their words, to “build on the groundswell of citizen participation in the presidential campaign and make people’s everyday interactions with their government easier and more transparent.”
It’s thorough, [...]


UKgovweb joins the GovTwit directory, prompts rant…

Bearing Point has been busy compiling a list of Government Twitter users in the States – and has now expanded it to include us Brits.
While our own Dave Briggs of course has the definitive guide to the UK Gov web Twitterverse, this GovTwit directory is a great resource to find like minds across the pond [...]


More deliciousness and a blog cliché apology

I promised myself never to allow two auto-generated Delicious link posts in a row.
But I am too busy with a thing (a thing I will reveal later, or never, depending on the outcome of the thing – hmm, I wonder what that thing could be?) to blog properly and therefore please accept this edited auto-Delicious [...]