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Government 2010

Government 2010 looks like it will be a lot of fun. It’s a conference about the future of government: Government 2010 is about improved government communications and more rapid delivery of services to citizens via the web, and web-enabled channels.…

Twitter lists

Neville writes a post about Twitter lists, some new functionality recently released to users. An official blog post trailed it last month. Neville’s quite positive about it, and indeed it may well work for a lot of people. My view…

Tim Davies on effective engagement

Tim Davies has posted an excellent response to my post on the myths of engaging with everyone. Recommended reading, and a great example of the quality of debate and content using blogging as a conversational medium (well, on Tim’s side,…

FCO’s social media policies

A great post from the FCO’s Stephen Hale reveals their digital diplomacy site. There is plenty of good stuff on there, but of particular interest to many will be the social media policy and guidance. Many thanks to Stephen and…

The myth of engaging with everyone

When I talk to people about the possibilities of engaging with people online, using social technology, I often get questioned about the numbers issue. Stuff like: How many people in our area actually use Twitter? What about people who don’t…

OpenSocitm

I had an interesting time at Socitm09 – a lot of the conversations I had were useful, and others fruitful. I won’t lie to you, though, a lot of what I saw and heard I found pretty painful. My Twitter…

Google blogs to follow

One of the things I like about Google is the number of blogs they have, used by many of the teams at the company to document their work and share some good stuff. Here are some of the ones I…

Bookmarks for October 11th through October 14th

Awesomeness off of the internet for October 11th to October 14th: THE WAIST LINE: Advertising… just do it… why? Because we’re worth it! And remember… every little helps. – Lincolnshire County Council bring ads back to their site Warwickshire Localities…

Selling the benefits

I attended the session by Liz Azyan and Simon Hume at Socitm09 on social media – which was ostensibly about the blocking of social networking sites in the workplace but which was also a general discussion around the benefits of…