Tag Archives: civil service

Guidance and Toolkits

Posted on August 3, 2008 by Dave

There have been a number of posts popping up around the use of the social web within government, both as a reaction to discussions of the civil service guidelines for online participation and to the need to provide the tools … Continue reading →

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Setback for public sector bloggers

Posted on July 13, 2008 by Dave

Paul Canning brings to our attention the case of a sacked blogger at the Welsh Assembly. As reported at WalesOnline: AN Assembly Government civil servant who was sacked for running a political blog is taking his case to an Employment … Continue reading →

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Public Sector Bloggers

Posted on July 9, 2008 by Dave

I’ve been wrestling with how to bring together and publicise the bloggers who have always been around, and those who are springing up following the publication of the guidelines. So, I have started hacking together http://publicsectorblogs.org/ which takes a bunch … Continue reading →

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Civil servants, blogs and anonymity

Posted on June 27, 2008 by Dave

Back onto one of my favourite subjects: bloggers’ anonymity. There’s plenty of background here. Paul Johnston wrote in the comments: Great to see this upswing in civil servant blogging, but quite understandably they seem to be anonymous. Very understandable in … Continue reading →

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A New Civil Servant Blogger

Posted on June 26, 2008 by Dave

In what is, as far as I am aware, the first instance of  civil servant starting a blog because the new guidelines freed him up to do so, Mark O’Neill of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport has begun … Continue reading →

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