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 [...]
Seriously dude, WTF is social media? The NSFW presentation one year on
In one of the first ever posts on this blog I shared Marta Kagan’s ever-so-sweary slide deck, WTF is Social Media. It helped my blog get off to a pretty good start, so it would be churlish not to post the sequel…
What the F**K is Social Media: One Year Later
View more documents from Marta Kagan.
For my [...]
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 [...]
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 a [...]
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 [...]
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 – [...]
Found/interesting: 6-14 Jan
Have a load of links on me.
Blimey @joswinson thanks @tom_watson – Simon Dickson notes a first as Parliamentary business spills over onto Twitter.
CivicSurf » DFID Blog Coaching – The DFID bloggers experiment is proving its value, and growing.
The 5 stages of Twitter acceptance – Denial > microblogging. I think I’m on the return path [...]
Found/interesting: 31 Dec to 6 Jan
I found this stuff interesting while browsing around.
Maybe you will too.
How boring: Celebrities sign up to Twitter to reveal the most mundane aspect of their lives - a balanced view from the Mail.
Twittering on: How internet ‘micro-blogging’ went global – A more thoughtful piece on Twitter including the Israeli consulate’s use of it for PR firefighting. Interesting [...]
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. 
