Comments on: A GovWeb group blog?

By: Creating an email newsletter | DavePress

Creating an email newsletter | DavePress — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:30:10 +0000

[...] full of social web news, views and other tidbits. It might go some way to filling the need for the govweb group blog I mooted earlier, though I should imagine it would be written in sufficiently broad terms to make [...]

By: Carl Haggerty

Carl Haggerty — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:02:51 +0000

This does sound like a positive idea and an opportunity to consolidate, what feels like a sea of information.

How it is managed will be key and how you draw in contributions from people who have great things to say but are not online.

Shout if you need help, i’m happy to support where i can..

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:15:21 +0000

Thanks for the broadly positive comments – I think the issue around workload is a valid one, and it might be worth making it a once a week affair. Also, it doesn’t have to be fresh content all the time – it could be things previously published elsewhere which the target audience (ie not generally web 2.0 (or indeed 1.0) savvy folk) are unlikely to have seen.

By: Jeremy Gould

Jeremy Gould — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:20:06 +0000

Sounds like a good idea, as long as it doesn’t get too complicated or onerous.

By: paul canning

paul canning — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:32:16 +0000

I’ve commented about this before – It’s one reason I rave about the Victorian egov initiative, it’s an edited feed (which I very occasionally make!).

To make it sustainable though I’ve pointed at PSF, who kindof do it in their email newsletter, as do some other egov news sources, though in a far too limited way.

I do like the idea of the raw alongside the edited though. But who supports/funds the editor(s)?

By: Steph

Steph — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:52:33 +0000

I vote yes.

It’s not exactly a fashionable idea and I suspect it’s a bit of work, but something slightly more edited could be really powerful as a way of moving us forward as a community, in the same way that A List Apart (http://www.alistapart.com) did for the web design community.