Tag Archives: microformats

Mobility and agility

April 6, 2008 – 8:30 pm

This post began as a review of how well government websites are doing making their content available to mobile devices. I had looked at this in February last year, and had hoped that over those 12 months we might have seen an improvement. These hopes proved, as you might guess, somewhat optimistic. This exercise did, [...]

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Alternate uses for public sector blogs

July 22, 2007 – 2:51 pm

I posted a couple of arguments for getting a blog up as an internal communications tool some weeks ago, Business case for a blog. However, as a blog is a content management system, there are any number of other ways to turn this tool to your communications needs.
Bob Conrad at The Good, the Bad, the [...]

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The value of government information

June 10, 2007 – 1:27 pm

The UK Cabinet Office has just released an independent review it commissioned into the ways government can better enable the public to access and reuse its information. The Power of Information [PDF 280 KB], co-authored by the founder and director of mySociety – a charitable project that connects people with their governments and communities, [...]

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5 principles for Govt 2.0

April 29, 2007 – 7:46 pm

Che Tibby’s great post this week about how government can/should interact with people via the Internet, Free on the Range, throws up some very interesting issues and, for me, some questions about what it is we mean when we talk about Govt 2.0 (government in the Web 2.0 age).
Given that Web 2.0 is a term [...]

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Gartner on Web2.0 & Government

April 16, 2007 – 2:51 pm

At the beginning of March Gartner published a brief paper, titled ‘What Does Web 2.0 Mean to Government (no link: subscription required), that included some significant observations about our future operating environment, and it set me thinking about what this will mean for the public sector in big-picture terms.
Before we get to the report itself, [...]

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Microformats & the govt media release [beta]

February 27, 2007 – 2:31 pm

I posted last year about microformats and the social media release, as an introduction to developments in this space and how microformats have the potential to radically alter the way that we produce, publish and syndicate content across the government namespace.
Rather than just comment from the sidelines, I thought I would prepare and publish a [...]

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Microformats and the social media release

December 13, 2006 – 1:39 pm

There has been quite a bit of discussion in the blogosphere about the social media release and its subsequent adoption by some of the big PR firms. And, as some agencies here are starting to use microformatted information in other applications, I thought it might be interesting to look at what these standards mean for [...]

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