News from the Foreign Office: they've selected Jimmy Leach, former head of digital at 10 Downing Street, currently 'Editorial Director for Digital' at The Independent, for the recently-advertised position of FCO's Head of Digital Engagement. He's due to start in February.
It'll be great to have him back: as I've written previously, I think he effectively kickstarted the wave of innovation around third-party services like YouTube, not to mention the e-petitions site, and did so without ever actually relaunching the No10 website.
26 November 2009
We're all going to have to get used to his wittering-ons about the majesty of Manchester United again... groan...