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Dear Olly – A masterpiece by DFID
If anyone ever asks you why Civil Servants or politicians should blog, send them over to Martin Leach’s most recent post. Martin is one of the DFID bloggers that we’ve been coaching. He’s recently arrived in Kigali, Rwanda as Head of DFID Rwanda. He’s just published a post called Dear Read more…
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Kazahkstan still bears a grudge
Google Analytics provides a wealth of information, but for most of our projects the map of where the visitors come from is very skewed towards the UK, US and Australia. Apart from one project that is… The map for the DFID blogs has truly international footprint. Since the blogs Read more…
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CivicSurf Evaluation Report
Just before Christmas we finished the evaluation report for CivicSurf and submitted it to the Ministry of Justice. In the interests of sharing our learning we’ve posted it on the CivicSurf site. Click on CivicSurf Evaluation Report to download all five pages of it [PDF, 60kb]
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Code of recommended practice on local authority publicity – A consultation
It's a fairly important part of the DCLG White Paper Consultation process for CivicSurf. The Code of Practice on Local Authority Publicity has been blamed by many as a major obstacle to helping councillors use blogs. This consultation is a chance to make your views clear on the matter. I'll Read more…
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“An introduction from Afghanistan” – DFID Blogs go Live
You probably think I’ve got a screw loose to be here, given the bad news you constantly receive about southern Afghanistan. But I think I’ve got the best job in DFID. I hope I can explain why – all the ups as well as the inevitable downs – through this Read more…
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What to post on Blog Action Day
It’s Blog Action Day on Wednesday 15th. The topic this year is Poverty. I’ve posted some advice for blogging councillors over at CivicSurf to help spark some ideas for blog posts on the day.
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Civic Blogging – What’s the point?
E-Government Bulletin from Headstar have published a short feature article I wrote based on the experiences of the CivicSurf project.
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Gold Medal Winning Public Sector Blogger
Peter Reed rowed his heart out with his other three crewmates this morning to win Olympic Gold in Beijing. Less well known about him is that he is a blogger and contributes to the also fasirly unknown JackSpeak set of blogs published by the Royal Navy. Well done, Peter, Steve, Read more…
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Send me your stereotypes – YouTube
OK, we can’t have her celebrity or looks but hats off to Queen Rania of Jordan who has been running an interesting YouTube project for the last few months. Back in April she posted a video on the Queen Rania channel asking for people to post questions about the stereotypes Read more…