January 2011

Do organisations really need social media policies?

  • January 28, 2011 at 5:41 pm
  • Categories: management,Social media

  • I supported the idea of strategies and policies for Twitter or social media when it was evident that people in managerial positions needed a solid, reassuring case for allowing their communications staff to use those tools. But I hope things have moved on now. I keep hearing people talking about how they’ve written a ‘set [...]

Blog’s playing up; sorry for the flakiness

  • January 28, 2011 at 2:34 pm
  • Categories: Ramblings

  • I’m sorry for the odd and user-unfriendly behaviour of this blog recently. I am aware of it and I will try and sort it out soon. I upgraded the WordPress installation recently and it seems that a number of the plugins are no longer compatible and are causing havoc with my customised templates. I’ll try [...]

Public sector reform needs to be about good management as well as saving money

  • January 19, 2011 at 12:42 am
  • Categories: Open data

  • The UK government wants public sector reform, and a big part of its plan involves transparency. However, some datasets on data.gov.uk are too shoddy to be useful. I suspect if people were managed and treated better they might take more interest in the quality of their work. (I’ve been blogging about open data on my Open Local [...]

Yet another tuppence on why traditional media isn’t dead yet

  • January 5, 2011 at 8:45 pm
  • Categories: Ramblings

  • I’ve just read on the cover of Metro that the details of Prince William’s wedding ceremony were released ‘exclusively on social networking site Twitter’. Even Clarence House is bypassing traditional news outlets; so are we finally seeing the demise of ‘traditional’ media? No, probably not. The thing is I didn’t discover this news on Twitter. [...]

New government website aims to draw in digital expertise from outside the sector

  • January 5, 2011 at 7:04 pm
  • Categories: Digital engagement

  • Today I got an invitation to join DotGovLabs (currently in private beta), which aims to ‘nurture digital innovation from outside government from the people who know digital’. It’s hard to figure out what it’s for, and if you’re not a member the website (linked to from their Twitter account) gives nothing away. However, if you [...]