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 his team for sharing.
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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 follow that I think might be of use to others who read this blog.
- Google corporate blog
- Google Public Sector blog
- Google Open Source blog
- Google European Public Policy blog
- Google Research blog
- Google Custom Search blog
- Google Reader blog
You can find a directory of official Google blogs here.
Unofficial blogs about Google that I read include:
UKGovCamp 2010 taking shape
After just one day, interest is already starting to build up for January’s barcamp. We have had a tonne of responses to the register of interest form, which is awesome, and have made significant headway in getting the venue arranged.
More on that as soon as I know it.
In the meantime, I’ve been doing some gardening on the community site we have set up on Ning. Deleting spammers, starting new conversations and creating some new groups.
We now have specific groups to discuss government data sharing and cloud computing – both hot topics. Make sure you sign up and jump into the conversations about these two topics.
UkGovCamp 2010 – #ukgc10
The previous two UK government barcamps have been wonderful events – bringing people together to start and continue conversations about how web developments affect the public sector in this country.
If we are going to run the event in January 2010, we probably need to start organising it now. So I have kicked things off a bit by tidying up the online community, adding a blog post ‘announcing’ January’s event and setting up a form for people to register their interest in the event.
So do head over to the community and start sharing some ideas, stories and experiences. And make sure you tag your stuff with ukgc10!
Obama’s democracy
Interesting paper from Delib on the approach to government taken by the Obama administration in the States:
The reality has certainly been a lot more muted than most geeks would have liked. Nothing overly glam and technologically ground-breaking, but instead a steady stream of pilot e-democracy projects and iterative improvements using an array of different web 2.0 tools.