Comments on: New recruits to Gov 2.0 http://andrewlewin.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/new-recruits-to-gov-20/ Digital, interactive and social media Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:53:13 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Mission Creep | Neil Williams » Blog Archive » Three cheers for the DFID bloggers (or Officials: Unofficial) http://andrewlewin.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/new-recruits-to-gov-20/#comment-69 Mission Creep | Neil Williams » Blog Archive » Three cheers for the DFID bloggers (or Officials: Unofficial) Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:24:24 +0000 http://andrewlewin.wordpress.com/?p=269#comment-69 [...] New recruits to Gov 2.0 (Andrew Lewin) [...] [...] New recruits to Gov 2.0 (Andrew Lewin) [...]

]]> By: andrewlewin http://andrewlewin.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/new-recruits-to-gov-20/#comment-68 andrewlewin Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:35:04 +0000 http://andrewlewin.wordpress.com/?p=269#comment-68 Oi, did you just pitch for work on my blog? Gerroff my land! ;) Difficult to judge what the issues may be at the Scotland Office that may be holding them back. I've seen too many government departments with all sorts of roadblocks to rapid development, and really don't like to judge. Sometimes it's just because the folk there are in uncharted (for them) waters and don't even know there's an easy answer; other times it can be problematic IT partners. As for BlogDirectGov/GovBlogs - wouldn't be too hard of course, either as a site along the lines of <a href="http://publicsectorblogs.org/" rel="nofollow">Public Sector Bloggers</a> or an aggregated feed via the likes of Feedburner, Google or FriendFeed. The whole point of a proper blog with RSS is the way is can be picked up, fed in and spread round after all. Oi, did you just pitch for work on my blog? Gerroff my land! ;)

Difficult to judge what the issues may be at the Scotland Office that may be holding them back. I’ve seen too many government departments with all sorts of roadblocks to rapid development, and really don’t like to judge. Sometimes it’s just because the folk there are in uncharted (for them) waters and don’t even know there’s an easy answer; other times it can be problematic IT partners.

As for BlogDirectGov/GovBlogs – wouldn’t be too hard of course, either as a site along the lines of Public Sector Bloggers or an aggregated feed via the likes of Feedburner, Google or FriendFeed. The whole point of a proper blog with RSS is the way is can be picked up, fed in and spread round after all.

]]> By: Simon Dickson http://andrewlewin.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/new-recruits-to-gov-20/#comment-67 Simon Dickson Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:52:50 +0000 http://andrewlewin.wordpress.com/?p=269#comment-67 I'm the proud owner of govblogs.co.uk... and when time permits, I'll get round to doing something with it. What's slightly frustrating about the Scotland Office example is that it would have been just as quick for an experienced WordPress developer (<i>eg</i> me) to put together a WP theme based on the existing Scotland Office templates/CSS. Keeping things fairly simple, I'd say a day's work tops... maybe two if you didn't have server space already available. Yes, I'm available. :) I’m the proud owner of govblogs.co.uk… and when time permits, I’ll get round to doing something with it.

What’s slightly frustrating about the Scotland Office example is that it would have been just as quick for an experienced WordPress developer (eg me) to put together a WP theme based on the existing Scotland Office templates/CSS. Keeping things fairly simple, I’d say a day’s work tops… maybe two if you didn’t have server space already available.

Yes, I’m available. :)

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