links for 2007-05-29
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some interesting thoughts about how commercial online loyalty techniques could be adopted by government to increase take up and usage of govt online services.
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Archive for May, 2007
links for 2007-05-23
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Some thoughts on user self moderation in online social communities
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interesting comparison of the relative benefits and drawbacks of each network
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An attempt to set out some of the principles that might be critical to Govt2.0.
Talking about the power of information
A late invitation arrived today from the Ideal Government folk to come to what turned out to be a fascinating evening discussing the democratisation of information and how government might participate in the online social media world.
Around the table were a sprinkling of policy officials, technologists and representatives from organisations who work with government to deliver its IT. Without divulging too much (the event was conducted under Chatham House rules (or rule) and discussed work whose conclusions haven’t all yet been announced) the thoughts aired included: Continue reading
links for 2007-05-21
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sensible coverage of the Owen Barder story from Simon
Why civil servants need to be careful about blogging
I’ve just been sitting here with my jaw on the ground reading about today’s Mail on Sunday article about Owen Barder, ‘Whitehall’s jogging blogger’ and subsequent commentary from observers. The best summary of the situation comes from Andrew Brown who helpfully points to a dissection of the original story by Tim Worstall.
One thought – yikes! This does somewhat set the potential reality for anyone willing to put their head above the parapet of anonymity. As Andrew says,
“They’ve put us all on notice that what we write here in the ’sphere can and will be used to smear us should it suit their purposes”.
But I don’t feel quite as crestfallen about the situation as Andrew’s view : Continue reading
Background to the new Ministry of Justice website part 2
Before I jump back into the issue of the permissive environment required for civil servants to blog, I thought I had better finish off the story of the building of the new Ministry of Justice (MoJ) website (part 1 here).
March 29th the government announced that the MoJ was going to be established from May 9. By this point we were well into developing the site as had been noticed by an eagle eyed observer.
links for 2007-05-17
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How the disruption caused by social media creates some significant changes in how companies will communicate with their employees and the market.
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Observations from users of some of the more popular social networking sites: Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Twitter and Second Life.
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… and a response to the previous article. Synthesis – get a real life
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