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Simon Dickson, principal consultant at Puffbox, has been blogging about e-government, online politics, and WordPress since 2005. Some important people read it.

Archive for 'coalition'

Commenting is not crowdsourcing

3 August 2010 9 ,

I've noticed a lot of people getting quite agitated by this Guardian piece about how the Programme for Government 'crowdsourcing' (sic) exercise has ended 'without a single government department expressing a willingness to alter any policy'. Now, I'm speaking for nobody but myself here - but what the Guardian piece doesn't fairly reflect is that [...] read on »

Coalition brand identity

12 July 2010 3 ,

pmdirectBack in May, I wrote a piece about consistent government branding. Given the benefits in terms of cost savings and strengthened identity, I suggested: 'it's an idea whose time has come, and will not come again for some time.' A couple of months later - after several web projects, a print item or two, and [...] read on »

Commentable Coalition plan

coalitiondocOut of the blue last week, I got a call from COI: was I available for an immediate, rapid turnaround WordPress job? I was a bit startled, and detail was lacking; but since this was precisely the kind of rapid-response thinking I've been trying to foster around WordPress for a couple of years, I couldn't [...] read on »

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