Comments on: Microsites make perfect http://puffbox.com/2009/11/18/microsites-make-perfect/ Adventures in government, politics and open source. Mostly WordPress-related. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:55:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Whitehall Webby http://puffbox.com/2009/11/18/microsites-make-perfect/comment-page-1/#comment-1174 Whitehall Webby Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:56:13 +0000 http://puffbox.com/?p=1207#comment-1174 But you have raised an excellent point that has been overlooked - how you ensure skils development if people aren't actually doing any development work. Sadly it might result in all development work being done outside government at stupid cost. That's a nice problem to solve for those who have made it. But then we know that encouraging innovation inside a large bureaucracy is hard at the best of times. But you have raised an excellent point that has been overlooked - how you ensure skils development if people aren't actually doing any development work. Sadly it might result in all development work being done outside government at stupid cost. That's a nice problem to solve for those who have made it. But then we know that encouraging innovation inside a large bureaucracy is hard at the best of times.

]]> By: Steph Gray http://puffbox.com/2009/11/18/microsites-make-perfect/comment-page-1/#comment-1173 Steph Gray Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:30:49 +0000 http://puffbox.com/?p=1207#comment-1173 Well, the challenge is to define 'website' - you yourself have built <a href='http://www.nationalstudentforum' rel="nofollow">microsites</a> in the sense of standalone, unconnected sites, but also <a href='http://consultation.dfid.gov.uk/' rel="nofollow">sites which are mechanically separate and innovative but add functionality to an existing channel</a> by slotting neatly in with them. I'm all for building, and maybe until fairly recently, I've been quite gung-ho about microsites. But the reality is that separate sites often struggle for attention, commitment and maintenance from their owners, compared to sites within the fold of a bigger channel. Well, the challenge is to define 'website' - you yourself have built microsites in the sense of standalone, unconnected sites, but also sites which are mechanically separate and innovative but add functionality to an existing channel by slotting neatly in with them.

I'm all for building, and maybe until fairly recently, I've been quite gung-ho about microsites. But the reality is that separate sites often struggle for attention, commitment and maintenance from their owners, compared to sites within the fold of a bigger channel.

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