Comments on: Number 10′s site highlights what is social, and what is not http://www.completetosh.com/weblog/2008/08/14/number-10-highlights-what-is-social-and-what-is-not/ by Neil McIntosh Wed, 04 May 2011 13:45:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Shaun MIlne http://www.completetosh.com/weblog/2008/08/14/number-10-highlights-what-is-social-and-what-is-not/comment-page-1/#comment-33301 Shaun MIlne Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:54:07 +0000 http://www.completetosh.com/?p=801#comment-33301 Could it be simply that the Government of the day has been bounced into doing something it feels it 'ought' to do, rather than something it actually 'wants' to do, and embraced something that 'sounds like a good idea' and 'works for that Obama chap' - without fully understanding how to execute it. Like many projects, it IS a good idea, but smacks of being rushed through in a PR panic and can surely only improve with either age .... or once it finally does away with Auntie Could it be simply that the Government of the day has been bounced into doing something it feels it ‘ought’ to do, rather than something it actually ‘wants’ to do, and embraced something that ‘sounds like a good idea’ and ‘works for that Obama chap’ – without fully understanding how to execute it.
Like many projects, it IS a good idea, but smacks of being rushed through in a PR panic and can surely only improve with either age …. or once it finally does away with Auntie

]]> By: knackeredhack http://www.completetosh.com/weblog/2008/08/14/number-10-highlights-what-is-social-and-what-is-not/comment-page-1/#comment-33228 knackeredhack Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:55:55 +0000 http://www.completetosh.com/?p=801#comment-33228 Neil It's not so long ago that I sent a reporter down to his first lobby briefing for him to return red-faced, laughing at his own embarrassment: he'd sat, IIRC, in Michael White's chair. Of course, he was the only journalist in the briefing room who didn't know it was Michael White's chair. From my own perspective out in the long-tail, I was very surprised to see No 10's Twitter experiment, indeed skeptical. But from my limited exposure to it, it indicates to me that government is suddenly porous in a way that was inconceivable when access to No 10 was dictated by unwritten seating arrangements. And it means at least one person in Downing Street can enjoy something I like to call Gordonfreude, even if it's best they keep quiet about it. Neil
It’s not so long ago that I sent a reporter down to his first lobby briefing for him to return red-faced, laughing at his own embarrassment: he’d sat, IIRC, in Michael White’s chair. Of course, he was the only journalist in the briefing room who didn’t know it was Michael White’s chair.

From my own perspective out in the long-tail, I was very surprised to see No 10′s Twitter experiment, indeed skeptical. But from my limited exposure to it, it indicates to me that government is suddenly porous in a way that was inconceivable when access to No 10 was dictated by unwritten seating arrangements. And it means at least one person in Downing Street can enjoy something I like to call Gordonfreude, even if it’s best they keep quiet about it.

]]> By: Lloyd Davis http://www.completetosh.com/weblog/2008/08/14/number-10-highlights-what-is-social-and-what-is-not/comment-page-1/#comment-33167 Lloyd Davis Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:36:02 +0000 http://www.completetosh.com/?p=801#comment-33167 eek! I know I'm in trouble when people are using the g-word about me :) I think one issue is that Government2.0, Enterprise2.0, Newspapers2.0 etc. and Web2.0 all face slightly different problems in becoming more transparent but it's tempting to think that they're all doing the same thing and that the same solutions are required. argh! I'm going to have to write another post about it, I don't want to clog up your comments... eek! I know I’m in trouble when people are using the g-word about me :)

I think one issue is that Government2.0, Enterprise2.0, Newspapers2.0 etc. and Web2.0 all face slightly different problems in becoming more transparent but it’s tempting to think that they’re all doing the same thing and that the same solutions are required.

argh! I’m going to have to write another post about it, I don’t want to clog up your comments…

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