An online notebook
I love stuff like this. Nick Charney works in government in Canada, and is also a prolific and excellent blogger. He’s also pretty active on GovLoop, which is where I first came across him I think. Anyway, follow his stuff. Nick has just published an ebook called Scheming Virtuously: A Handbook for Public Servants which … Keep reading
Great post by Neil Williams on how civil servants can approach blogging in a way that means they will get readers but won’t lose their jobs: Starting up your own personal blog is dead easy. Unless you’re a civil servant and want to talk about your work. If you are, then you face this choice: … Keep reading
A big welcome to the blogosphere to Neil Williams, all round good government web egg, who has started a blog called Mission Creep. He says in his opening post: It genuinely feels like exciting, important things are starting to happen in government’s use of web right now. It just got really interesting, and I’m going … Keep reading
I spent an interesting morning last Friday at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, attending a meeting of ‘civil servant bloggers’ – not many of whom, it turned out, actually blogged – to discuss the recent guidelines for online participation. It was organised through the Power of Information Taskforce. I found it a peculiar experience, not … Keep reading
I rather glossed over it at the time, because of the general excitement of the moment, but a remarkable thing happened a couple of days ago. A man called Dylan Jeffrey commented on this blog. Why is this so remarkable? Well, Dylan is a civil servant. What’s more, he was commenting as a civil servant. … Keep reading