Posts Tagged ‘twitter

The new government on the web

We are nearly two weeks into the new Conservative-Liberal Democrat and there seems to be a lot of work going on behind the scenes to prepare for the start of the new legislative programme tomorrow (Tuesday).
Of course, with a new government brings a new direction. Steph Gray, a former civil servant working in the technology [...]

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Communications in a Crisis

Photo: lewishamdreamer (from Flickr)
The past 36 hours haven’t been the best for those travelling with Eurostar. Five trains were stranded for hours in the Channel Tunnel without power, light, food, drink, heating or information. A further train became stuck near Ebbsfleet yesterday evening.
The focus today is on the cause of the incident and [...]

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Why Government needed a Twitter strategy

Last week, Neil Williams from the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) published his draft Government Twitter Strategy. I think its about time someone sat down and produced a document like this. Some people have responded to the document negatively (as expected), some positively, and some have completely missed the point.
I wanted [...]

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CllrTweeps – The Directory of UK Councillors on Twitter

A quick update this week!
Last weekend I was pleased to launch CllrTweeps.  The new site, inspired by TweetMinster, aims to list every local councillor in the UK who is on Twitter.  After our first week online, we have already tracked down and verified the first 100 councillors using the service.
The first version of the site [...]

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It’s official… politics 2.0 is here

This week it feels like a new phase in social media and the internet has begun. The beginning of the week saw America inaugurate a technology-savvy president, who, along with his team, appears to understand the importance of technology and the internet. Throughout last year, Barack Obama and his team made fantastic use [...]

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Staying ahead of the game

The web design & development industry is incredibly fast paced.  What is current and ‘acceptable’ today, might not be tomorrow.  New technologies are being developed all the time, new ways of doing things, new ways of thinking.  As I’ve mentioned before, keeping on top of these changes is almost a full time job in itself.  [...]

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Why the New Facebook is Wrong

On Monday, the social networking site Facebook released its new design to a selection of its members.  Over the next few weeks, this major update will be pushed out to everyone registered on the network.  Yesterday evening, a discussion began on Twitter surrounding the new Facebook image – with a number of users who don’t [...]

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The tweets have been silenced…

… well, almost.
I’ve removed the daily digest of twitter entries from the homepage, archive pages and RSS feed. I decided they were cluttering things up a bit too much. You can still follow my twitter messages though at twitter.com/dafyddbach or keep up with the daily digest in the ‘tweets‘ category.

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Today’s Twittering (2008-04-24)

back at home… 15 days to go
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Cringing at The Times’ Good University Ranking of Swansea. Maybe the management will realise at last?
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