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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.

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Taking Slugger O'Toole to the next level

slugger-sqIf you have any interest in Northern Ireland politics, you'll be familiar with Slugger O'Toole. It's by far the best known blog in the province, and manages to pull off the impressive feat of appealing to both sides of the sectarian divide - even to the point of winning awards at ceremonies in both the [...] read on »

Live text commentary in WordPress

I don't usually blog about projects until after they've happened; but I'm going to make an exception for something that's going to happen later today. For just about a year, we've been looking after the website for The Big Care Debate, the government's large-scale consultation on the funding of long-term social care. We've had a [...] read on »

DFID's new group blog function

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We rolled out a fairly modest enhancement to the DFID Bloggers website this week: probably unnoticed by most users, but one I'm quite proud of. At its heart, the DFID site is a group blog; but we do a few things to present it as a network of individual blogs by individual bloggers. Then the [...] read on »

DFID Bloggers: tales from the front line

The latest Puffbox project gets a soft launch today, ahead of a formal (and hopefully high-profile) announcement next week. DFID Bloggers is a satellite site off the main Department for International Development website, and follows in the FCO's footsteps of giving front-line staff a blog on which to talk about their work and experiences. In [...] read on »

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