My friend Mick Phythian picked up a very useful motto/warning for anyone promoting e-government projects a while ago. To government, your time is worth £Zero – and this is why e-government fails. This explains why a very sharp idea that Dave Briggs has been working on recently – promoting the notion of ‘Microparticipation’ with a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Social media’
Lists and lessons
Mark Pack has a very good post up on Lib-Dem Voice – advice for budding politicians: ‘30 things every would-be politician should do this summer‘ (he was inspired by a similar post for aspiring journalists elsewhere). Thirty is a big number – too big for me. But I’ve got a few observations that I’ve been [...]
Civil service social media use during election ‘purdah’
Later this week, a document will be published outlining what civil servants can and can’t do with social media during the election ‘purdah’ period. I’ve been given an outline of what guidance it includes and I’m here to tell you now that – when you see it, I think you will agree with me – [...]
Signposts off
Three articles have caught my eye over the weekend: Wikipedia and the law: The libel laws haven’t yet caught up with the existence of Wikipedia. This is a problem – and it offers a huge advantage to those with the means to use lawyers to intimidate. The article itself is short and to-the-point, but Padraig [...]