GovGeek setups: Steph Gray
The first in an occasional series of posts written by prominent geeks working in and around government, talking about the tools they use to do their jobs.
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Blogging Tsar
The advert is up for the UK government’s Director of Digital Engagement. It looks like an exciting role with stacks of potential. Steph has already started to crowd source what it is that whoever gets the job should start doing. Dominic has also given his commentary on his ‘dream digital director‘.
Now, this is nice
Steph has posted about the work he has been doing getting the Power of Information Taskforce report online for interested folk to comment on it before it gets published. It’s a lovely piece of work: It is in fact a new theme, not the usual CommentPress which has been lying dormant for quite a while. … Keep reading
STOP BLOCKING
Steph has released some details of his short survey of the blocking of useful websites within the public sector. The following figures show the percentages of organisations which allow access to each type of site: Google 100% LinkedIn 100% NetMums 100% Wikipedia 97% Digg 97% Google Reader 91% WordPress.com 89% Yahoo account 86% Flickr 83% … Keep reading
Comments in the crowd
Photo credit: Greenboy Great post by Steph on comments, community and moderation: …as more people start to see the web as place for self-expression in their own spaces and other people’s, hearing the interesting voices in the crowd is only going to become more important.