Mission Creep
Blog URL http://neilojwilliams.net/missioncreep
Located London, London United Kingdom
Tags web, government, socialmedia, web2.0, engagement, digital, democracy, hens, chickens
UK Government web manager blogging about trying to do too much at once. Namely digital engagement, social media, web management and outside interests (gardening, fatherhood, hen-keeping).
Latest Blog Posts
- Gerry McGovern’s metaphor masterclass on Nov 16, 2009 in Balance Work
I’m a big fan of Gerry McGovern I’ve read his New Thinking newsletter avidly for years and, in a couple of weeks’ time, I’m going to his masterclass on managing effective task-based websites. I can’t wait. If you haven&#...
- Found/interesting: 15 October to 7 November on Nov 7, 2009 in Balance accessibility BBC blogmarked cardsorting career democracy design digital digitalinclusion engagement evaluation government guide IA informationarchitecture interview job media news participation Politics salary socialmedia statistics stats strategy tools twitter usability website webtv
Look what I found interesting enough to bookmark recently: BBC Democracy Live – Nifty live political TV and news thingummy via Simon Dickson. JobFact – community of anonymous employees – Compare your salary anonymously. Optimal Wor...
- What I (nearly) said at Government 2010 on Oct 25, 2009 in Work collaboration conference culture change democracy participation speaking
As trailed, here come the notes of my contribution to the discussion about e-consultation at Government 2010 last Thursday. The session’s title was “Digital engagement is everyone’s job: formal and informal consultation online”...
- Government 2010: the gist on Oct 22, 2009 in Work conference consultation digital engagement government participation
You could easily spend your whole time at e-comms events, hearing the same speakers say similar things to the same people. They’re two a penny, and it’s hard to know which will be the good ones. But as others observed and the Twitter buzz...
- Carbon reduction begins at my home on Oct 15, 2009 in Balance Life BIS blogactionday climatechange government innovation products technology
When I watched that Al Gore film, I came away full of good intentions about changing my ways and my lightbulbs - then promptly did neither. But recently Croydon Council sent round an enthusiastic man with terrible B.O. to do a home energy review, a...
- Found/interesting: 11 October on Oct 11, 2009 in Balance 48k adoption apps blogmarked casestudies data game games governance iphone kids linkeddata models opendata opengov POIT policies retro socialmedia spectrum strategy theory twitter zxspectrum
A few hand picked bookmarks. The wraps come off data.gov.uk! – Harry Metcalfe posted this exclusive preview of data.gov.uk – the UK government’s free open data store, currently in private beta. Explaining social media to senior man...
- Survival of the flattest: how to futureproof your website’s IA on Sep 27, 2009 in Work content Content Management IA Information architecture model navigation Policy Site Management strategy structure usability
Whitehall websites are built on shifting sands. Reshuffles, changes to the machinery of government, and (until 2011) convergence projects mean that hundreds of pages of content could, at almost any time, suddenly have to be deleted from one governmen...
