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Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetInteresting stats. I’m slowly transitioning from Firefox to Chrome, for speed reasons and because it doesn’t seem so resource hungry.
Interested to know why you were reluctant to hand your metrics to the Goog?
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetSteph, you’ve seriously been an inspiration to a lot of people, me included. Thanks for everything you’ve done, and more specifically, in documenting it here so everyone can share what you’ve learned.
Am crossing my fingers we get to work together on something again soon.
Someone, do yourselves a favour and hire this man.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetHello! I'd rather like to be able to use the blog address codeyellow.wordpress.com - as you don't seem to be using it much, would you consider transferring it to me? Hope so!
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetAm sure there were one or two, Simon, which is a good thing in that it’s an event that is seen as being of value by those who decide on such matters. But it isn’t just the giving-up-a-saturday thing that highlights the generosity shown on the day, but also the collaborative aspect, and the overwhelmingly positive approach people take to the event.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetThanks man, pleased it’s useful stuff.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetCatherine - it was great to meet you at last, and I echo everything you have written here.Anyone who tries to put all the lessons organisations have to learn from the internet into a box marked comms, or PR, or marketing, is missing the point so badly I feel sorry for them.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetSometimes communities just die – they serve their purpose and then it is time for people to move on. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
However, it seems odd that the organiser seems so hell bent on closing it down in the face of opposition from members – why not just hand it over to someone else if you no longer want to be involved?
As you say, though, he could well be just calling people’s bluff.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetGreat post, Roo.
Out of interest, what feed do you pipe into Feedburner? The blog feed, or one from Libsyn?
Dave
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetI think you're right, but another way of looking at it is that you're interested in behaviour and activities. In other words, we want openness and accountability from politicians and organisations, and participation and generosity from citizens. What tools they use to do so will always change and develop over time and to try and future proof any one solution will probably always fail.Instead, promote the activities, the behaviour and, yes, the culture and let people use whatever tools happen to be lying around at the time.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetSounds exciting, well done chaps!Maybe you should have a chat with Vicky Sargent about http://firstglobalscreen.com/
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetHey Steven
Thanks for such a positive write up! I think there is so much opportunity in the public sector to do innovation and collaboration better – and now the technology is there, we really don’t have any excuses not to do it.
I’m still refining my thinking on this over on my blog and would of course welcome any views you have the stuff I’m spewing out.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetIt’s a shame you have to do it Steph, but nobody wants you – or indeed any other blogging civil servant – to get into trouble.
Anyone maintaining a silence during purdah is welcome to guest post anonymously on DavePress! (I need the help…)
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetThis might be useful: http://davepress.net/2009/10/20/search-engine-optimisation-for-non-experts-what-you-need-to-know/
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetGreat post, Dan. There is no denying that councils' websites are complicated beasts, but they probably aren't *quite* as complicated as people think they are.Some great ideas for council websites are here: http://localgovweb.ideascale.com/
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetHi Steph! I don’t mean to denigrate blogs or blogging at all. Personally, I think it is a superb medium, perfect for debating and refining ideas, easy to do yet also remarkably powerful and sophisticated, technology-wise. I owe my livelihood to blogging – nobody would have ever heard of me if I hadn’t started blogging, and I would still be stuck behind a desk at a local authority somewhere – and I would encourage everyone and anyone to give it a go.
Further, on the blogging front, one of the people I was thinking about when I wrote the original post was Andrea DiMaio, whose blogging perfectly hits the mark when it comes to analysis and comment on government techy stuff. Do we have an Andrea in the UK? I’m not aware we do…and I think we need one.
But my purpose in saying that focusing on blogging was wrong was because I did not want to put people off joining in because of the ‘b’ word. Also, a lot of the discussion of the original post was centered on blogging about blogging, or blogging about social media. What I was getting at was a wider discussion about how we talk about government and ideas, without getting bogged down in specific social media issues or holy wars about whether Blogger is better than Tumblr (or whatever).