Comments on: Public servants must blog, despite Civil Serf

By: Simon Burall

Simon Burall — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:39:50 +0000

I’ve also just realised how old this post is, so there really is nothing new under the sun is there?!

By: Simon Burall

Simon Burall — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:39:13 +0000

Dave

I’ve just blogged on this (http://www.involve.org.uk/our-responsibilities-as-citizens/) and found your 6 point list and associated links incredibly useful. However, none of this quite answers the questions I think the issue raises for Involve – or does it? Am I looking for a solution where one already exists?

Simon

By: Just because you can say something… | DavePress

Just because you can say something… | DavePress — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 09:18:31 +0000

[...] issue here is the message, not the medium, and it reminds me very much of the Civil Serf affair a few years ago. Whilst I don’t know the exact detail of this case, it’s clear [...]

By: Does he mean us? « Sole Trader PR

Does he mean us? « Sole Trader PR — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:58:26 +0000

[...] But open debate about the issue and flating some ideas for change can’t hurt. A number of public sector blogs wrestled with this at the time and there’s a lot of pubic sector blogging still going [...]

By: Public Service is a difficult thing - but is great!! | Al Kags

Public Service is a difficult thing - but is great!! | Al Kags — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:41:06 +0000

[...] PS: Communication is one of the key areas that public servants may need to improve in. I found this article that speaks to the next level of public service comminication: Public Servants must blog [...]

By: Mine’s a coComment #4 | content to be different

Mine’s a coComment #4 | content to be different — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:04:17 +0000

[...] Dave’s: If Control Freak inc (aka Microsoft) can get by on a Blogging Policy of ‘Blog [...]

By: Dr John Cameron

Dr John Cameron — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:41:04 +0000

I was at university with Gordon Brown and knew quite a number of the present (and some of the now dead) New Labour politicians. I loved the Civil Serf’s comments. I absolutely recognize the Brown she describes. It will have driven him totally bonkers. He was nothing like as brilliant an academic as he encourages his minions to infer. There were lots of bright people at Edinburgh University and if he was so fabulous why could he only find a teaching post in Caly Poly by far the worst new university in Scotland. Willie Haig does not need staffers to make claims about his intellectual ability. He only has top open his mouth to make it quite obvious he is razor sharp. Brown is a strange, damaged individual who seriously believes he has a cosmic significance. Maybe that is what is needed to become Prime Minister and make millions of people unhappy but it unsettling to know such a weird guy is in charge.

By: Humaniform » How to Blog about your employer: let me count the ways: Civil Serf

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:02:17 +0000

[...] slightly) from some commentators when they say that there is no place for anonymity. For example, Dave Briggs says (among other excellent points that I do agree with): Anonymity is A Bad Thing, and only [...]

By: How to Blog about your employer: let me count the ways: Civil Serf | The Wardman Wire

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:01:39 +0000

By: Jenny Brown

Jenny Brown — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:14:35 +0000

@davebriggs

What if the issue *had* been taken up internally and nothing was done about it.

Not saying that happened in this case and of course this is hypothetical anyway.

Perhaps it raises the question ‘when is it (if ever) acceptable to break the code?’